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Political Radar: McCain Still Wants GOP's Abortion Platform Changed
blogs.abcnews.com - 8/21/2008
Political Radar: McCain Still Wants GOP's Abortion Platform Changed
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Yes, we republicans do think that Roe Vs. Wade is something to talk about during election time. Just as the US has made, then changed, other laws, it, too, can be overturned again. Since when is the protection of life a "return to the dark ages?" I rather think it's the reverse. If you don't want to carry a baby (and isn't it interesting that you did call it a "child?") to term, then don't ...

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Think Progress:  ThinkFast: August 21, 2008

Daily Kos:  Inconsistency McCain's only consistency

Matthew Yglesias:  Flip-Flopping on Abortion

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ThinkFast: August 21, 2008
Think Progress — ... and 2007 pledges to change the GOP abortion platform to grant exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother . “There’s a process in place for the delegates to work on the platform and we are going to let that process ...

Inconsistency McCain's only consistency
Daily Kos — John McCain to George W. Bush, in 2000: In other words your position is you believe there’s an exemption for rape, incest, and life of the mother, but you want the platform that you’re supposed to be leading to have no exemption... It doesn’t have the exemptions in it and you know that very well... Read the platform. It has no exceptions... In 2007: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told ABC News Saturday that he still wants to change the GOP's abortion platform to explicitly ...

Flip-Flopping on Abortion
Matthew Yglesias — ... in cases of rape, incest, or where failure to abort would kill the mother. That would be a far cry from the pro-choice position, but it would be somewhat more moderate than the current platform’s commitment to blanket criminalization. Then he lost the primary, his views swung to the left on a variety of views, and then starting with George W. Bush’s re-election campaign he swung his views on taxes, immigration, and a series of other issues back to the hard right. But as of April 2007 he was still mavericky on abortion: ...

McCain's Abortion Flip-Flop
TPMMuckraker — ... Back in 2000, when John McCain was running for the GOP nomination as an insurgent against the Republican establishment, he trumpeted his desire to change the party platform's call for a human life amendment banning all abortions. McCain wanted to add an exception in cases of rape, incest, or a threat to the life of the mother. And in a primary debate, he went after George W. Bush for wanting to leave the platform unchanged. As late as April 2007, he was singing the same tune, telling reporters in Iowa that he stood by his 2000 position . But ...

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