Democrats pledge support for wide access to abortion

[Regis Philbin]

This is what you get from the modern Democrat party, folks...free, taxpayer-funded birthcontrol and "pregnancy terminations" (the new P/C term for abortion) for all women! Whooo Hooo!!!


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-dems18jul18,1,639458.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Democrats pledge support for wide access to abortion

By Mike Dorning
Washington Bureau
Published July 18, 2007


WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband's health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion.

Speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards before the family planning and abortion-rights group Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Edwards lauded her husband's health-care proposal as "a true universal health-care plan" that would cover "all reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination," referring to abortion.

Edwards was joined by Democratic candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at the group's political organizing conference in addressing issues at the core of the political clash between cultural liberals and conservatives, including abortion rights, access to contraception and sex education.

The recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding a federal ban on a late-term abortion procedure that opponents call "partial-birth abortion" has increased anxieties among reproductive-rights advocates over the future of constitutional protections for abortion rights. All three of the Democratic campaigns used the forum to signal their determination to appoint Supreme Court nominees who would uphold the 1973 Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling.

Obama, who earlier gained the endorsement of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, offered the group a vision of equal opportunity for women, tying a call for improved access to contraceptives for low-income women with a call for an "updated social contract" that includes paid maternity leave and expanded school hours.

[SparkleHugs]

Its not a PC term, its a medical term.

And i see no problem with free birth control, if birth control is free for people who need it to be free, then there will probably be fewer abortions

[Richard Tafoya]

That's the goal -- distribute birth control cheaply and effectively enough and educate people on its importance so that unwanted pregnancies become increasingly rare situations.

Work toward making abortions very rare occurances.

[pinky]

Aren't Rush's little blue pills covered on most medical plans?

[Sunflowergirl]

I've always found it very strange that a woman's reproductive rights are the object of so much public scrutiny and debate, while a man's reproduction is actively encouraged via medications like . Are those covered on most medical plans? The abortion issue aside, I cannot comprehend why anyone would complain about birth control being covered. But I'm willing to guess that it's connected to a woman's marriage vow still including "to honor and obey"...

[pinky]

My vows didn't include that.

[SparkleHugs]

My mom's vows didnt include that either, she insisted that obey was removed. Whenever I get married i will insist on the same. I do not obey anyone. Though I do agree, I have no idea why a womans reproduction is anyone's business but her own.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Its not a PC term, its a medical term.


If it is, I've never heard it. In the medical field, there are two kinds of abortions, a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or an induced abortion. That being said, I'm all for wider access to women's reproductive healthcare.

[SparkleHugs]

I have heard nurses use that terminology for it before. *shrugs* I have only heard people who work in medicine use it, not anyone who has "terminated" a pregnancy, they just say abortion. But I dont know, I dont work in the medical field, and I have not had an abortion.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Perhaps those medical personnel who work in ob/gyn and offer the procedure have begun using that term, I don't know. Maybe it sounds better. But in medical books, and when charting history and procedures, "abortion" is the correct medical term.