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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 8/15/2008
No Party For Pro-Lifers
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Speaking of Linda Hirshman , her Slate piece crowing over the absence of the "safe, legal and rare" formulation from the Dems' platform language on abortion ought to provide some clarity for pro-lifers hopeful that an Obamafied Democratic Party might provide any kind of an opening for advancing anything resembling a pro-life agenda. So should David Freddoso's reporting on Obama and the ...

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Let Me Tell You What This Implies
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Ross Douthat wrote a very bad post arguing that the Democratic position on choice was one that was “one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics” towards pro-lifers.  He then ...

Dreher on Obama’s non-answer on abortion
Southern Appeal — ... in any way. Of course he has not. He never has. He said he’d be against partial-birth abortion as long as there was an excuse for the health of a mother — but of course that exception, insofar as it includes mental health, obviates the effect of the legislation. Obama is radically pro-abortion. There really isn’t any other way to see it. At least none that makes sense to me. He told Warren that he had friendly pro-life language inserted into the Democratic Party platform, but as Ross Douthat and ...

Dreher on Obama’s non-answer on abortion
Southern Appeal — ... in any way. Of course he has not. He never has. He said he’d be against partial-birth abortion as long as there was an excuse for the health of a mother — but of course that exception, insofar as it includes mental health, obviates the effect of the legislation. Obama is radically pro-abortion. There really isn’t any other way to see it. At least none that makes sense to me. He told Warren that he had friendly pro-life language inserted into the Democratic Party platform, but as Ross Douthat and ...

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