Hillary stays middle of the road on abortion - solid pro-choice - but

[papau]

wishing there were fewer abortions - hmmmm - must be a "pandering" that requires the Drudge siren and GE/NBC having Katie ask Tim about this flip-floping around.

Anyone notice that Hillary's record to date has always had the pro-choice centrist/middle liberal support for reasonable parental notification (with judicial bypass) in some circumstances, and support for a partial birth ban if it included a health exception?

A quote from Hillary "We can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women...The fact is that the best way to reduce the number of abortions is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place," as she advocted/supported sexual education (including abstinence counseling) with family planning, and morning-after emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault as ways to reduce unintended pregnancies.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hillary25jan25,1,6983925.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Sen. Clinton Notes Rise in Abortion Rates
From Associated Press

January 25, 2005

ALBANY, N.Y. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton complained Monday that the Bush administration is shortchanging family planning efforts and said that might be causing abortion rates to go up in some parts of the country.

The New York Democrat told about 1,000 fellow abortion rights supporters that during her husband's administration, family planning funding was a priority and "we saw the rate of abortion consistently fall."

"The abortion rate fell by one-quarter between 1990 and 1995, the steepest decline since Roe was decided in 1973," Clinton told the 28th annual conference of the Family Planning Advocates of New York State. "The rate fell another 11% between 1994 and 2000.

"But unfortunately in the last few years, while we are engaged in ideological debate instead of one that uses facts and evidence and common sense, the rate of abortion is on the rise in some states," she said. "In the three years since President Bush took office, eight states have seen an increase in abortion rates and four saw a decrease." <snip>