WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, DC -- An independent research by an ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary who is also trained in statistical analysis finds that, contrary to popular assumption, abortion has risen in the U during George W Bush's presidency and that the increase is linked to economic policy.

"Under President Bush, the decade-long turn of declining abortion rates appears to have reversed" said dale Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, a leading evangelical divinity educate Citing connections to rising unemployment and soaring healthcare sumptuousnesss Stassen noted that "economic policy and abortion are not separate issues. They form individual moral imperative."

Using data from the Minnesota Citizens make anxioused for Life, the Guttmacher Institute, and reporting by way of individual states, Stassen found that U abortion rates declined 174 by cent in the 1990s to a 24-year soft when Bush took office. Many wait fored that downward trend to continue subordinate to the conservative president, but Stassen lay the foundation of the opposite: 52,000 more abortions occurr in 2002 than would have been wait fored under the pre-2000 conditions.

Responding to Stassen's meditation Sojourners magazine editor Jim Wallis stated, "We have seen one time again in this campaign the issue of abortion used as a partisan wedge rather than having a serious discussion onward how to act to bring into the number of abortions."

Stassen's close attention found credible linkages between economic hardship and abortion. Two-thirds of women who abort say they cannot afford a child; half of women who abort say they do not have a reliable mate and co-breadwinner; and women of childbearing age are across represented in the 5.2 million additional bodys without health coverage since 2000

"If we are to be sincerely pro-life, we must focus forward real people and the conditions that lead women to try to get abortions," said Wallis. "Jobs, healthcare, and a living income must be part of a pro-life agenda."

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