Obama and Democrats had nothing to do with the Stupak Amendment??
Bart Stupak is a Democrat.
And Obama signed an Executive Order codifying and extending the Hyde Amendment to pander to Stupak and the religious right:
“The (Patient Protection and Affordable Care) Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to the newly-created health insurance exchanges.”
Barack Obama, President of the United States,
March 21, 2010
The real truth is that Democrats have abandoned reproducti
ve/pro-choice rights.
The DemocraticParty is out of the business of being pro-choice because it's trying to turn the DemocraticParty into the old RepublicanParty, grow the DemocraticParty by attracting into the party anybody it can. It hasn't actually announced it publicly, but it only goes through the motions of seeming to be champions of women's reproductive choice. When it comes to actually championing the issue, Democratic politicians are AWOL, not only at the top, at the party organization, but absent also are the politicians whose talk as women's champions don't match the walk.
You can't have anti-choice politicians in the DemocraticParty, receiving money and support from the DemocraticParty's members and the party's machinery, when the platform of the party clearly states that Democrats "unequivocally support Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".
Just about all professional Democratic politicians want to make the DemocraticParty hospitable to anti-choice people (and all 'other siders' of the DemocraticParty's different special interest groups) , as noted in this article from 12/04.
The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'. During HowardDean's tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the DemocraticParty from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews , from 11/1/05: Video | Transcript
January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights
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