Joe Biden Attacks Sarah Palin on Abortion, Calls Her "Backwards Step for Women"

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a potential preview of the lone debate between the vice-presidential hopefuls that will take place this fall, pro-abortion candidate Joe Biden is attacking Sarah Palin on abortion. In an interview, Biden said it would be a "backwards step for women" if Palin becomes the first female Vice President.

During a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a local television reporter asked Biden, "Do you think, if she does win, that would be a step forward for women."

Biden, a Delaware senator who is Barack Obama's running mate, disagreed and pointed to Palin's pro-life views on abortion as the reason why.

"Well look, I think the issue is what does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe?" he said.

"I assume she thinks and agrees with the same [pro-life] policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden added. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."

Dorinda Bordlee, a prominent attorney who is the senior counsel of the Bioethics Defense Fund, told LifeNews.com she was flabbergasted by Biden's remarks.

She said she is not surprised that a man like Joe Biden, who has a long pro-abortion voting record, would attack Palin.

By saying pro-life policies are a "backward step for women," Biden is apparently "completely unaware of the mountain of evidence showing abortion's traumatic impact on women's physical and psychological health," she explained.

Bordlee also said "the American public is witnessing the clash of cultures in how we view motherhood."

"With women like Speaker Nancy Pelosi advocating for the position that women need abortion to succeed, other women like Sarah Palin who show by the example of their lives that motherhood and a vocation can be integrated without resorting to abortion," she said.

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson also responded to the comments.

"The only person taking a step backward is Joe Biden, whose appalling and arrogant statements are better suited for the back rooms of his old boys club," she told The Hill newspaper in reply.

"Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republican vice presidential nominee is an historic opportunity to break the highest glass ceiling," she said. "While John McCain and Sarah Palin continue to press their message of change, Joe Biden should stop these sorts of old-style attacks."

Biden's comments come on the heels of him misrepresenting his pro-abortion position in a weekend interview with "Meet the Press."

The senator said he opposes taxpayer funding of abortions, yet voted on numerous occasions to put taxpayer funds towards abortions in various direct and indirect circumstances.

Related web sites:
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"I assume she thinks and agrees with the same [pro-life] policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden added. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."

Actually Joe, Sarah Palin's pro-life principles FAR OUTSHINE those of McCain and Bush.

1 posted on 09/09/2008 4:22:13 PM PDT by wagglebee

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2 posted on 09/09/2008 4:23:08 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

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3 posted on 09/09/2008 4:23:38 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

Yeah, I’m sure that’s the one thing all women aspire to: having their very own abortion.

4 posted on 09/09/2008 4:25:27 PM PDT by dr_who

The senator said he opposes taxpayer funding of abortions, yet voted on numerous occasions to put taxpayer funds towards abortions in various direct and indirect circumstances.

Do what I say but not what I do?

Methinks Biden went to Washington for his party and himself rather than for his country...

5 posted on 09/09/2008 4:27:49 PM PDT by John123 (Obambi said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)

Let them run on abortion. The left has lost the abortion battle and will continue to lose it. Killing babies is not a step forward for women.

6 posted on 09/09/2008 4:28:51 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")

Homeboy is stepping in it. He just can’t help himself.

7 posted on 09/09/2008 4:30:46 PM PDT by sappy

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Source for at least the second photo. I didn't check the other. It's photo 467 of 649.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Democratic-National-Convention-Senator-Joe-Biden-2008-Democratic-National-Convention-Michelle-Obama-vice-presidential-nominee/ss/events/pl/073008dncdemocratcon/im:/080829/480/8210e222956f4d21b1449107ae90d1a5/

Comment: The photo on the right shows clearly that he placed the flag upside down and touching the floor deliberately. Check out how the stick is propped up against the chair. Not that he would have done it with the intent of disrespecting the flag, but rather that he apparently didn't care enough to give it much thought.-ETL

8 posted on 09/09/2008 4:33:26 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)

In an interview, Biden said it would be a "backwards step for women" if Palin becomes the first female Vice President.

So tell me Joe, what do you think of the Pope? Ya think maybe he's a backward step for the church?

9 posted on 09/09/2008 4:37:09 PM PDT by umgud

So, Biden thinks he can gain traction by attacking pro life mothers of Down Syndrome babies.

Real smart guy.

OT: Has Biden been excommunicated yet?

10 posted on 09/09/2008 4:37:57 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)

How typical of a chauvinist pig, to tell us what is good for us as women. I can figure it out myself joe. Thanks anyway.
I cannot WAIT til the VP debate.

11 posted on 09/09/2008 4:41:19 PM PDT by jackv

Actually Joe, it is not a step backwards.

Women Deserve Better
http://feministsforlife.org/news/ffl-member-sarah-palin-vp.htm

12 posted on 09/09/2008 4:42:51 PM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)

Well, given that women along with everyone else, have been going the wrong direction for decades, a “step backward” is the first step toward solving the problem.

13 posted on 09/09/2008 5:01:11 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)

And Michelle-honey looks like she’s about to clock him. I think she could do it too!

14 posted on 09/09/2008 5:02:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)

Oh... so this is the guy who is CATHOLIC and is supposed to pick up the CATHOLIC vote?

15 posted on 09/09/2008 5:05:54 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert

Joe who?????? bwaaaaahhaaaaahhhhaaa!!!!

16 posted on 09/09/2008 5:15:23 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda ( MUST SEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgHkxIfgBc)

JUST KEEP BASHING AWAY, YOU JERKS.

17 posted on 09/09/2008 5:27:27 PM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")

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18 posted on 09/09/2008 5:29:29 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at CpForLife.org)

I think most people will agree that born alive abortions are a step forward — into hell. We got them on this issue.

19 posted on 09/09/2008 6:15:05 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Barack Milhous Obama aka HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED [We dare not speak his name!])

I am tired of some liberal guy telling me I have to think in lockstep with their idea of what a woman should think. I hate abortion and told pro aborts why I could not vote for them. They always seem a little surprised at my belief.

20 posted on 09/09/2008 6:43:53 PM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)

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