Rethinking abortion rights

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Norman Solomon:
When you say that the Nader campaign doesn't care whether there's a winner 
in George Bush or his opponent there, John Kerry, it's another way of 
saying that the Nader campaign doesn't care whether we have four more years 
of Bush. I think that position is quite properly being broadly rejected by 
progressives around this country for many, many reasons, including that not 
only Rehnquist, but two other justices of the Supreme Court we know almost 
overwhelmingly, but certainly probably, will be off the court in the next 
four years. I wonder what Ralph would say to women and men who want to 
safeguard the right to an abortion?

full: http://67.15.90.110/article.pl?sid=04/10/26/144233

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LA Times, December 23, 2004 	
Democratic Leadership Rethinking Abortion
	
By Peter Wallsten and Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON ? After long defining itself as an undisputed defender of 
abortion rights, the Democratic Party is suddenly locked in an internal 
struggle over whether to redefine its position to appeal to a broader array 
of voters.

The fight is a central theme of the contest to head the Democratic National 
Committee, particularly between two leading candidates: former Vermont Gov. 
Howard Dean, who supports abortion rights, and former Indiana Rep. Tim 
Roemer, an abortion foe who argues that the party cannot rebound from its 
losses in the November election unless it shows more tolerance on one of 
society's most emotional conflicts.

Roemer is running with the encouragement of the party's two highest-ranking 
members of Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco 
and incoming Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Dean, a former 
presidential candidate, is popular with the party's liberal wing.

If Roemer were to succeed Terry McAuliffe as Democratic chairman in the 
Feb. 10 vote, the party long viewed as the guardian of abortion rights 
would suddenly have two antiabortion advocates at its helm. Reid, too, 
opposes abortion and once voted for a nonbinding resolution opposing Roe 
vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.

full: 
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion23dec23,0,2288324.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

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