Well, whaddya know. They have finally realized that saying "rare" shows that they know abortion is a bad thing. Not a less good thing, a bad thing. They have now stopped any pretense of walking on the shoulder of the road but have abandoned the straight and narrow completely.
pinging the NYC pro-lifers (some of them anyway)
That's why the phrase never made sense to me and is really kind of sick. If a fetus is not a person, if you're just ridding your body of a mass of cells then why does it need to be rare? If abortion isn't murder why does it need to be rare? If abortion is safer than pregnancy why does it need to be rare?
Like you said, they are essentially admitting that it is bad, but at the same time saying they don't care. It's like: "Yeah we know abortion is murder, but darn it we just can't be rearranging our lives for every unexpected child that comes along."
Never believe this "rare" crap. Any time there is a restriction on abortion up for a vote, Hillary Clinton votes against it. EVERY single restriction. How does Hillary intend to make abortion rare if she does this?