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Re:Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality by paulddraper on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:24PM (#19331259)
Snopes rates "Abortion rates drop during Democratic presidencies and rise during Republican administrations" as false. [1]

And even if it were true (and it's not), the national legislatures is often the opposite party as the executive, and they're the ones that actually make the laws. (The real reality though is that the states are far more relevant in this area.)

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/abortion-rates-presidencie...

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Re:Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality by rc_kas on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:41PM (#19331458)
Different fact check than what I'm saying. They don't rise during Republican presidencies. They do fall at a slower rate.
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Re:Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality by paulddraper on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:45PM (#19332815)
Well, if we're being precise, your original assertion was something different altogether.

You claimed "fewer abortions happen under Democrat presidents than under Republican presidents", but that's still not really true. Two of the top four years for abortions per live birth (1979, 1980, 1981, 1984) had a Democratic administration. Three if you look at the previous year's President. [1]

[1] According to CDC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_Uni...

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