Posted on 04/21/2005 9:12:08 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean thinks his party has been wrong on abortion.
In his first visit to Minnesota since becoming the party chairman two months ago, Dean told an audience in Minneapolis on Wednesday night that while his party is right to defend a woman's right to have an abortion, it is wrong to defend the procedure as a moral issue.
"I think we need to talk differently about abortion," the blunt-spoken physician and former Vermont governor told several hundred supporters of the Minnesota affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Dean was the 2004 presidential candidate whose campaign soared to an early lead only to quickly burn out. His campaign transformed politics by using the Internet in new ways to raise money and organize grass-roots supporters. But his support collapsed when party activists decided he was either too liberal or abrasive.
Since the November elections, several Democratic Party leaders, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Dean, have spoken of an effort to alter the party's thinking on certain abortion issues. The large crowd at Wednesday's Minneapolis gathering gave him repeated standing ovations. The speech centered on privacy issues such as the Patriot Act, but it was the topic of abortion that stood out.
The debate shouldn't be about whether abortion is good or bad, Dean said. It should be about whether a woman has a right to make up her own mind.
"We got pushed into a corner by the Republican propaganda machine, forced to debate and defend positions that aren't our positions," he said. "I don't know anybody in America who's pro-abortion."
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Who pulled Howie's feeding tube two weeks ago?
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Of course a woman has a right to make up her own mind. She can decide weather or not to have sex. She can decide weather or not to practice birth control. She can decide weather or not to raise a child or give it up for adoption. But she has no right to unilaterally take another life without due process of the law.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;
Gee, that's never been tried before. Good thing the Dims have Dean-dong to think up these things.
LOL!
Hey Howard, have you looked in the mirror lately?
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