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Much has been made of the Democratic Party’s new platform plank on abortion. Jim Wallis has hailed the new language as “an historic step forward.” Is it? Well, Sen. Obama says that “words matter,” so let’s examine the actual words. It is true that the Democrats did add language stating that the party “strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.” This is good to know and does provide a certain moral symmetry to their promotion of tax-funded abortions through their support of “a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay.”
Some observers, however, believe that the Democrats’ abortion stance is actually more liberal than before. The Wall Street Journal’s Naomi Schaefer Riley proclaimed? that it appeared that “the Democrats have accomplished the impossible: they have moved to the left on abortion” (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 20. 2008).....
The Democrats’ Platform Plank on Abortion: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?
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