tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281789906349841218.post8473625605802967863..comments2023-10-22T12:01:32.633-04:00Comments on The Lurking Canary: :: Obama on Choice - "I think we will continue to suggest that that's the right legal framework"Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14901971975109018287noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281789906349841218.post-79309220074361212072008-05-16T21:04:00.000-04:002008-05-16T21:04:00.000-04:00Ciccina:I keep reading this post again and again, ...Ciccina:<BR/>I keep reading this post again and again, and I can't shake the feeling that your perceptions are biased.<BR/><BR/>I am a man, so I will never have the personal experience of abortion or the need to make that choice. But I have to <I>know</I> that the choice is horrible - it's not something taken lightly.<BR/><BR/>So I think you'd also agree that efforts have to be made to reduce unwanted pregnancies - e.g. availability of Plan B, or sex education that includes contraception, not just abstinence. [By the way, you forget to highlight the "contraception has to be part of that education process" portion of Senator Obama's reply - not something an anti-abortion person would say.]<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, from what I have read, such avenues have had a hard time the past seven years. So future movement has to be away from the regressive Bush domestic policies and toward ways and means to common goals - which is an approach <B>both</B> Senators Clinton and Obama share.<BR/><BR/>By the way, they also share "weaselly" answers to the actual question - Senator Clinton says "potential for life begins at conception." That's the same answer as Senator Obama, and effectively the same as "life does not begin at conception." But that last, definitive statement is unpalatable to "middle America" which would just rather hedge - as <B>both</B> these fine Senators do.<BR/><BR/>Finally - if you think Senator Obama is terrible for women's rights, maybe you should write a post with references to actual votes that show this is the case. From (presumably) unbiased sources like ontheissues.org, I gather that Senator Obama is strongly pro-choice, "present" votes and all.RShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380182761372599473noreply@blogger.com