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- From: heidi@wolf.net.com (Heidi Wolf)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.politics.elections
- Subject: Re: politics
- Summary: Democratic platform statement
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 21:24:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.192004.4214@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.192004.4214@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
- >In <1992Aug19.163821.17023@ncsu.edu> dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >> In article <onv3s2k@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- >>
- >> > I am pleased to see the Democrats taking such a strong
- >> > pro-choice stand, in an election where their opponents have
- >> > adopted a plank that includes NO EXCEPTIONS for victims of rape
- >> > and incest. The Republicans are extremists.
- >>
- >> And the Democrats aren't extremists on abortion? The Democratic
- >> platform plank on abortion indicates that they support ...
- >> unrestricted abortion-on-demand throughout the term of pregnancy.
- >
- >This sounds like another Holtsinger lie. Can you document this?
- >
- >(Note that both Roe v. Wade and the Freedom of Choice Act allow for
- >restrictions on abortion after viability, and the current situation
- >is a de facto ban on third-trimester abortions for anything other
- >than serious medical considerations.)
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- Here is the relevant section, as reprinted verbatim from the 1992
- Democratic Party platform. (Source: article in alt.politics.clinton;
- thanks to Mary Jacobs for posting the information there.)
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- CHOICE. Democrats stand behind the right of every woman
- to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, regardless of ability
- to pay, and support a national law to protect that right.
- It is a fundamental constitutional liberty that individual
- Americans -- not government -- can best take responsibility for
- making the most difficult and intensely personal decisions
- regarding reproduction. The goal of our nation must be to make
- abortion less necessary, not more difficult or more dangerous.
- We pledge to support contraceptive research, family planning,
- comprehensive family life education, and policies that support
- healthy childbearing and enable parents to care most effectively
- for their children.
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