Saturday, August 30, 2008

Going Off the Deep End in Denver: Democrats Walk the Abortion Plank

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082912.html

[LifeSite News] 30 Aug 2008--Already notorious for its unconditional embrace of abortion, the Democratic Party has now managed to adopt a position on the paramount life issue that is, if anything, even more extreme. The new platform adopted in Denver states that the Party "strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right."

Past Democratic Party platforms had managed to at least sound moderate by invoking the formulation, popularized by Bill Clinton, that the party's goal was to make abortion "safe, legal, and rare." The problem arose with the word "rare," which important elements of the party's political base seem to have found offensive. It certainly grated on the sensibilities of feminists, the more radical of whom regard abortion not as something to be avoided but as a positive act of liberation from conventional sex roles, a bloody rite of passage into their own largely barren ranks.

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