Posted on 07/18/2007 4:46:01 PM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, DC, July 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Tuesday leading Democrat presidential candidates slammed the Bush administration and reaffirmed their commitment to promoting abortion in the United States.
Speaking before the Planned Parenthood Public Affairs Action Fund (PPPAAF) annual conference, leading Democrat contenders Senators Hillary Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois, and wife of presidential candidate John Edwards showed their determination to promote abortion through their comments on public policy and choices of Supreme Court Justice nominees.
Obama spoke about his intentions to expand people's access to health insurance, which would include universal coverage for "reproductive-health services." An Obama spokesman clarified that this did indeed include abortion.
The Illinois presidential candidate also said that he would appoint Supreme Court Justices with "empathy." Obama then criticized Justice Anthony Kennedy, who penned the partial-birth abortion ban that passed 5-4 in April. "Justice Kennedy knows many things," declared Obama, "but my understanding is that he does not know how to be a doctor."
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom," he said, "And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
Dismissing the efforts of pro-life advocates, he continued, "At a time when the real war is being fought abroad, [some] would have us fight Culture Wars here at home. I am absolutely convinced that culture Wars are just so '90's. Their days are growing dark."
Regarding the issue of contraception, he is quoted in the Washington Post as saying, "We must never be willing to consign a teenage girl to suffer because she [lacks] birth control."
Obama's leading rival candidate, Hilary Clinton, attacked the partial-birth abortion ban in her speech before the PPPAAF, reports Reuters. Slamming the Bush administration for its policy on contraception and advocacy of abstinence education, she also said that they "set out from Day One to dismantle reproduction rights around the world."
She stated, "At the top of the list was this effort to try to overturn Roe vs. Wade or at least try to chip away at it."
"They don't just want to wage a war on choice," she continued. "They want to wage a war on contraception."
Referring to her future choice for Supreme Court Justices nominees, Clinton stated, "I would appoint well-qualified judges who really respect the Constitution."
Elizabeth Edwards, speaking for her husband, presidential candidate John Edwards, said that he proposed a "true universal health-care plan," the Tribune Reports. Specifically referring to abortion, she stated that this plan would cover "all reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination."
According to the New York Times, during an interview with Planned Parenthood, Elizabeth Edwards also criticized Clinton, saying she's "not as vocal a women's advocate as I want to see." In addition, she indicated that Hilary had waffled on her strong pro-choice position in the past by saying that abortions are tragedies.
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Bush, Clinton, Obama, Giuliani, etc. React to Partial Birth Abortion Ban Ruling
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07041902.html
"When I am President …" - Hilary Clinton Promises Pro-homosexual Administration
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jun/07060407.html
Senators Clinton, Obama, say "Homosexuality is Moral" While Brownback Publicly Supports General Pace
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07031606.html
Hillary Clinton Supported by Big Abortion, Gay Activists and Now the Porn Industry
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07041906.html
No just murder, and don't think it's all Republicans, there's still Roody.
Pro-Life Ping
OMG!!!
Hopefully, this will take 100% of the middle away from these freaks.
Don't forget old Rooty Toot!
This has gotten little publicity. I looked at two different papers this morning and saw not a word about it. Instead, there was a happy-happy little article about how everybody loves Obama because he is so very sensitive.
I mentioned Roody.
So, This is a confirmation that DemocRATS considers abortion to simply be a method of contraception?
Yet, they bring up the topic of birth rates being too low, and THE reason to import 'turd' world terrorists and their ability to breed, -and breed large numbers of- the next generations of Muhammadan fundamentalist terrorism, which will not help this nation in any way other than to destroy it, and the freedom the constitution was constructed to give us the maximum amount of.
Why are American sheeple so blind and stupid? Why would anyone want to give vote to those who are working so hard to destroy this country, and their freedom?
And this is only ONE of many ways the DemonRATS are pursuing to bring total destruction to this nation as we know it.
Surely, even moonbat leftist retards have to pause and take some time to consider where the DemonRAT's would take this nation given the chance.
“They don’t just want to wage a war on choice,” she continued. “They want to wage a war on contraception.”
Apparently she does not know the difference between abortion and contraception. Had contraception been used in the first place, abortion may not be an issue.
a silent Holocaust. I wish these pro-abortion people were sent back to the womb and make a decision from there. would they be for abortion then?
I know. Just throwing in my two-cents.
Psst! Obaba bin Ladin, you can't be a "MOM" if you've never given birth, So what does being a teenage "MOM" have to do with abortion?
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I have no doubts in my mind whatsoever, Mr. Obama bin Ladin, that ANY AND ALL MOTHERS, teenage or otherwise, would say they wished they had aborted their child.
It is those who NEVER have been, or have no love for thier children who would say they wished they had killed them, and not had the right to life.
What a complete idiot you are Obama. Typical of your true "religous" beliefs however.
Every time I hear that - I’m ready to scream.
When I ask these fools... What does Obama believe in...
>>He’s got new ideas.
About what?
>>They are really new.
ABOUT WHAT?
>>He’s very interesting.
WHAT ARE HIS VIEWS?
>>You’re prejudice.
NO... I just haven’t heard a concise ideology about this guy.
SCREAMMMMMMM!!!
Any presidential candidate that supports Roe v Wade and abortion on demand, doesn’t warrant support from conservatives. As you know, Rooty`s abortion stance is in direct opposition to the GOP platform.
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There, I fixed it for you.
They all want NARAL’s money and support, but this will not be widely publicized, because it would not help any of them at the polls.
LOL Got that right!
I don't believe in "do-overs"!
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