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Adoption and 2008In an article on The Politico website about the problems that Republican Presidential candidates are having with the abortion issue, Rudy Giuliani’s spokesperson says something interesting - “He presided over a decline of abortions, promoted adoption as a real alternative and saw adoptions increase and abortions decrease,” says Comella. It’s true that the abortion rate went down in the country and New York City during the Clinton years which largely paralled the Giuliani administration. But I don’t remember any city sponsored drives to promote adoption instead of abortion. Does anybody out there think this really happened? The causality of a lower abortion rate was, ironically cause by Roe v. Wade. During the Guliani and Clinton Administrations we saw the first major effects of the removal of unwanted children into society. Roe v. Wade made eliminating unwanted children more economical and accessed easier. The vast majority of abortions are administered on children whose mother's are poor and undereducated. As such, when a poor and undereducated woman has a child that child usually is poor and undereducated too. And the cycle continues. With the reduction of unwanted children and culling of the poor and undereducated we not only saw a reduction in abortions but we also saw a drastic reduction in crime which, at the time was attributed to Rudy Guiliani's "Quality of Life" crime enforcment campaign. Quite the paradox. Best regards, Bill Corrigan bivalvia lacwork antiritual secesh jovial leisureliness irritable preknow
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Let's quote from the Mayor's second Strategic Policy Statement in 1999. One of his goals was to "accelerate foster care placements and adoptions." The goal was to get kids out of foster care, and I believe ACS reforms had some effect. So I think the Mayor can claim success on the adoption front. But reducing abortion was not mentioned as a reason for increasing adoption, foster care was.
Another goal was to "restore parental responsibility." It talks about collecting child support, requiring single mothers to work but providing them with child care. There was no discussion of a means -- abstinence, birth control or abortion.
The preamble to the Protect and Serve Children section talks about reducing out-of-wedlock births, especially to teens. These are the children most at risk, the Department of City Planning wrote on the Mayor's behalf using information gleaned from his Deptuy Mayors, administrators, speeches, and other sources. (I believe the Mayor read and commented on the first SPS, not sure about the second).
Nothing about abortion. Nothing in the first SPS either.