A creative Democratic plan to reduce abortions

Democrats for Life is promoting a creative plan that could greatly reduce the number of abortions by 95 percent within 10 years without banning the procedure. As dedicated pro-lifers, most members of Democrats for Life support greater restrictions on abortion but recognize that it may be years before Roe v. Wade is overturned. Even if Roe v. Wade is struck down, a number of states are likely to continue abortion on demand. Can anyone cognizant of political realities imagine the West Coast states or most of the Northeastern states banning abortion ? There is an obvious need for something like the 95/10 plan being pushed by Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio and other pro-life Democrats in Congress that will encourage women facing an unexpected preganancy to choose life.
Far too many Republican pro-lifers "believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth" as liberal Congressman Barney Frank once quipped. The 95/10 plan would include such things to discourage abortion as banning insurance companies from treating pregnanancy as a pre-existing condition, requiring insurers to cover contraceptives and programs geared to raising public awareness about adoption with permanent tax credits to provide incentives to adopt a child. Other great ideas in the 95/10 plan include funding for domestic violence programs, expansion of WIC programs and require Medicaid coverage for pregnant women.
The only obvious gap in the 95/10 plan is something to enhance child support enforcement (a critical anti-poverty tool which our Republican Congress wants to cut) by encouraging hospital based paternity establishment programs. Legal paternity is never established for a large percentage of children born out of wedlock and hosptial based paternity programs can help to establish child support orders which will help to pay the costs of raising these kids. If an expectant mother knows that she will have medical coverage while pregnant and a good chance of collecting child support from the father, then she will probably be less inclined to choose abortion.
If pro-choice liberals really want abortion to be "safe, legal and rare" and Republican conservatives are actually pro-life enough to do something to help the poor women who often choose abortion, Congress will enact the 95/10 plan by an overwhelming majority. We have listened to activists screaming from both sides of the abortion debate for the past thirty years. Political strategists in both parties have used the abortion issue to manipulate voters. Why isn't the entire pro-life movement and Planned Parenthood actively backing the 95/10 plan ? Now is the time for action and not just cheap talk to help the women and children that both sides of the abortion debate claim to be so concerned about. For more information about the 95/10 plan, go to the website for Democrats for Life at http://www.democratsforlife.org