{"id":256865,"date":"2021-11-11T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=256865"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:04:37","slug":"safe-legal-rare-abortion-replaced-anytime-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/safe-legal-rare-abortion-replaced-anytime-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Safe, legal, and rare’ has been replaced by ‘taxpayer funded, anytime, for any reason’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion supporters used to hide behind the mantra that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. Today, many are showing their true colors by calling this cleverly marketed phrase “ancient” and “outdated,” and one that must relegated to the “dustbin” of history. In its place, advocates want abortion to be anything but<\/em> “rare,” demanding that abortion be available anytime, anywhere, for any reason \u2014 and subsidized by the American taxpayer. But it is likely that this was always the agenda.<\/p>\n

In 1992, President Bill Clinton claimed he wanted abortion to be \u201csafe, legal, and rare,\u201d but according to a 2019 Washington Post op-ed penned<\/a> by Alexandra DeSanctis, “by 2012\u00a0the Democratic Party\u00a0excised the word ‘rare’ from its\u00a0official platform<\/a>, writing instead that it favored ‘safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay.’\u201d<\/p>\n