[grellis]

I find the statistics exceedingly hard to believe as well. IIRC, one of the red southern states--Alabama, if I'm not mistaken--has one abortion clinic. One. I'm willing to bet that, taken as a per capita percentage, very few red states have high abortion rates when compared to blue states. There are probably a few exceptions but still...

What should we expect? Its Moby. He's a moron.

[hedgie]

Just glancing at the CDC's 2001 "Abortion Surveillance" report it looks like Massachusetts is pretty far from the bottom of the list (using the ratio of abortions to live births).

Not surprisingly, NYC is at the top and Utah is at the bottom.

[Verginius Rufus]

According to the 2005 World Almanac, Alabama in 2000 (the latest year they give figures for) had 13,830 abortions. Perhaps there was a larger number of abortion clinics operating in 2000, but that would be somewhere around 40-45 a day depending on how many days a year they were closed...so perhaps a single abortion mill would have sufficed.

[Verginius Rufus]

Of the 13 states with the lowest abortion rates in 2000 (under 10 per 1000 women of childbearing age), 12 of them voted for Bush in 2004. The only exception was Wisconsin, which probably would have been in Bush's column except for election fraud by the Democrats.

D.C. had the highest abortion rate (68.1) and the highest percentage of votes for Kerry. Of the 11 states with a rate of 22.2 or higher in 2000, 9 voted for Kerry (the other two were Florida and Nevada).