Please Senator Kerry Call * Out On: ABORTION RIGHTS!

[K8-EEE]

This is not a "difficult" issue for us, it's difficult issue for THEM. Does he stand against a woman's right to choose safe, legal, EARLY abortion? Does he agree with Alan Keyes that abortion can be likened to slavery? What they hell did he mean with his (incorrect) analysis of Dred Scot?

American women deserve to hear where he stands on choice and *not* coded messages ie "culture of life" etc. Does he believe we have that right or not?

[TwilightZone]

1. What's there to call out? He's quite obviously anti-choice.

Bush has made little attempt to obfuscate the issue. He's quite adamantly anti-choice.

[K8-EEE]

4. Clear As Mud!

I've never heard him say that abortion should be illegal.

[King Coal]

2. Kerry is handling that issue very well, already.

[ollie3]

3. The issue is a no-win

Bush will bring it up, you can bet on it. The reasons: 1) it solidifies his base, 2) distracts attention away from other issues. Kerry responded quite well when he was asked about it. But for US to bring it up? We need to be focussing on Iraq, the economy, jobs, civil rights, environment, security. The Reps like abortion and gay marriage as wedge issues because they get folks all worked up over this and the sheeple vote Republican even if they like the Dem side on all the other issues. Sorry, but if we make it a "draw" on this issue, this is a victory. No need whatsoever for us to bring the issue up. We have an election to win, not a defeat to grouse about later.

[K8-EEE]

5. Ask Him If He Agrees With Mommy Bush

That it's between a woman, her family and her doctor...that's what she said in her 1994 biog, that it should not be a political issue.

[TwilightZone]

9. It's been quite thoroughly established that W and Mommy didn't agree

on many issues.

W is the black sheep of the family. He's been at odds with his parents for most of his life.

[lawladyprof]

6. He needs to tie it to birth control pills

That prevent implantation. The country is split about abortion, but you'd have to pry birth control pills out of their cold dead hands (male and female). If life begins at conception, then some forms of birth control should also be illegal (see pharmacists refusing to fill BC prescriptions threads).

[lawladyprof]

7. And in-vitro fertilization

Because of the need to discard unused embryos.

[HootieMcBoob]

8. Here's what he needs to say

They don't want the abortion issue to go away. President Clinton said on more than one occasion that he would sign a bill that banned late term abortion as long as it had a provision for the life and health of the mother and they never sent him one.

Now they've sent Bush a bill with no exceptions for the mothers life or health and it's found unconstitutional. As a result there's no ban on late term abortion at all. If they'd sent President Clinton the bill he asked for, right now there would be a ban on late term abortion, but it would have taken an important issue off the table for them.

Ladies and Gentlemen they control every branch of government. If they wanted to ban late term abortion they would have done it. They don't want the ban. What they want is the issue.
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I think this might make the anti-choice people think a little bit and would put W on the defensive.

[ladybugg33]

10. Kerry should ask Bush this question:

If a doctor had told you when you were young and starting your family that your wife's life was in danger because of severe problems with a pregancy in the third tir-mester, would you have chosen to not have the fetus aborted in order to save your wife's life?

[samtob]

12. But

Wouldn't most couples going through this scenario choose delivery of the baby with the intention of saving the mother and the baby's life?

There are pre mature babies born every day that survive.

Asking this question would open the door for some very ugly graphic discussions that would just not be helpful. IMO

[exsoccermom]

11. There's also Plan B (morning after pill)

The FDA group that was evaluation Plan B (the morning after pill)recommended that it be made available over the counter. The FDA put this on hold even though this has wide bipartisan support (and not that many things do these days). If * is against abortion, then he should support the morning after pill. Rather than abortion, is * against birth control (other than "natural" birth control).