The only party which can effect a needed paradigm shift in our culture to bring a reduction in abortion to the point where they are, in fact, rare is the Democratic Party. Only through addressing the underlying causes of abortion will the numbers drop. Family planning, including contraception, needs to become far more widely advocated and implemented since more than half of all unwanted pregnancies end in abortion. Arguing out of one side of their mouths about the need to "ban abortion" and then crippling, curtailing, denying healthcare to the poor is hypocrisy at best and callous cynical calculation at worst. Which why the embrace of the slogan 'pro-life' by the 'republic party' (yes, I changed an adjective into a noun since that seems to be the predilection of certain bloggers) is a patent falsehood and intended as a deception.