2008 Election and Abortion

These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.

Access to basic birth control and family planning services is a fundamental right. By attempting to criminalize the pill, Chris Smith's policies increase the number of unintended pregnancies.

Obama must tell the pro-choice community: I'm with you on legal restrictions, but you need to accept that I'm going to campaign against abortion.

Obama is walking a dangerous road -- especially with women Democratic voters -- by saying things about reproductive rights that make him look more Republican than John McCain.

If Chris Matthews and the mainstream media want to add something productive to the reproductive rights debate, they should move off the 70's polarization created by the far-right.

America seems ready to unify behind practical and effective ways of addressing the abortion issue that validate the concerns of both the pro-life and pro-choice communities.

Perhaps Michelle Malkin and her conservative cohorts found Obama's comments on sex education so disturbing because of the president's oh-so impressive record on the issue.

McCain's record is really, really anti-choice. Not only anti-choice, but anti-sex ed, anti-emergency contraception, and anti-women.

Iraq is not the only unpopular war Bush started that McCain hopes to continue. The war on Americans' sex lives is another and McCain has already proven himself a good, loyal general.

I fully expect that whichever of the two, Obama or Clinton, become president, I will be fighting with them for more on reproductive rights than either is ready to give.

If our highest aspiration is to be a consumer with no thought or care for our neighbor, we will remain a culture in which abortion is not only inevitable but logical.

As a pro-choice president, Hillary Clinton will make Supreme Court appointments and decisions ensuring women's reproductive rights in this country.

By subtly shifting his rhetoric, Huckabee can make his hard-right audience hear what they are looking for without jeopardize the friendly image he has carefully constructed.

The most pro-life thing a president can do is support the right to use contraception and make it widely available.

Republicans all seemed to nod in agreement on one breathtaking policy initiative for women that surfaced in last night's debate: the DIY abortion.