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To: AmericanGirlRising
Obama pledged to Planned Parenthood: “I will not yield” to pro-life concerns

In the July 17 speech, Obama attacked the Supreme Court decision that upheld the federal partial-birth abortion ban and the nomination of Supreme Court justices who favor overturning Roe v. Wade. In the speech the senator said, "There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield."

Obama based his speech around the question, “What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?”

He specifically argued against the Supreme Court decision Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld restrictions on partial-birth abortion.

“For the first time in Gonzales versus Carhart,” Obama said, “the Supreme Court held—upheld a federal ban on abortions with criminal penalties for doctors. For the first time, the Court’s endorsed an abortion restriction without an exception for women’s health. The decision presumed that the health of women is best protected by the Court—not by doctors and not by the woman herself. That presumption is wrong.”

He warned abortion supporters that the partial-birth abortion ban should not be construed as an isolated effort, saying it was wrong to presume the law was “not part of a concerted effort to roll back the hard-won rights of American women.”

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112 posted on 10/19/2008 6:52:38 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Obama pledged to Planned Parenthood: “I will not yield” to pro-life concerns

Falls right in line with his support in SB406 to decriminalize the movement of girls to non-parental consent states to obtain a non-parental consent abortion. So your kids friends can drive them to another state to get an abortion and the parents will never know. AMAZING! Amazing we're at this point in the negotiation of death.

127 posted on 10/19/2008 7:01:00 PM PDT by AmericanGirlRising (Joe the Plumber is a Lesson for Every American! -- www.protestthemedia.com - Oct. 21)
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