Unnecessarily Evil
August 16th, 2008 by 2CDC
Tuesday 12 August 2008
by: Linda Hirshman, Slate, via Truthout
Abortion rights activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court. (Photo: Lauren Victoria Burke / AP)
Reclaiming the morality of abortion and the overdue change to the Democratic platform.
The Democratic Party platform of 2008 finally dropped its old abortion language (”safe, legal and rare”), which had asked that women not have abortions unless they absolutely must. The 2008 platform, just announced, says instead, “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.” Should a woman desire to bear her child, the Dems advocate prenatal care, income support, and adoption programs to help her there, too. But in the world of the new Democratic platform, it’s the woman’s decision to make.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled by a margin of 7-2 in Roe v. Wade that women - not their husbands, their doctors, or their legislatures - must be the ones to decide whether to bear or beget a child. Read the rest of this entry »
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