Roe v. Wade Still Under Siege, 39 Years Later

Sounds to me as if he's striking exactly the right balance.

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With that spin, it's hard to believe that you're not on the Obama payroll.

What you characteri­ze as "NOW complainin­g that Obama is not far left enough on this issue" is, in actuality, NOW positing, "What does it mean to be pro-choice­?", and  "Can Obama be called a pro-choice president given that women have fewer rights to abortion than three years ago, many of those rights revoked with the approval or initiative of the executive branch?"

There is no "striking the right balance" on the issue of a woman's sovereign right over her own body and access to abortion.  You either believe it and support it or you don't.  

I gave you two reference links, but I could've given you 50 -- Obama's been that wily and deceptive on the issue.  

For Obama, Abortion Proves Not So Much a Right as a Bargaining Chip

At the end of the healthcare debate, when Obama was desperate to get the final bill passed in the House, he agreed to make a deal with BartStupak (D-MI) on the issue of abortion, by offering an ExecutiveO­rder that restricted the availabili­ty of insurance coverage for reproducti­ve health. The right to abortion for many in need was traded away as a bargaining chip to get that final bill passed.

Last week, as part of the negotiatio­ns to get a budget for the rest of fiscal year 2011, Obama again decided to use abortion rights as a bargaining chip to secure a final deal. To get Republican­s to agree to a compromise­, Obama promised to support a legislativ­e rider which would prevent the District of Colombia from using its own tax revenue to fund abortion, despite the opposition of the District’s locally elected government­.

Dealing like this only once to pass what the president considered his hallmark legislativ­e achievemen­t would seem unusual, but could be rationaliz­ed as an isolated incident. But doing it again, and to get agreement on something as mundane as a few months of stopgap funding for the federal government seems to indicate a pattern–a pattern I’m sure abortion opponents have noticed and are already working to exploit further in the upcoming legislativ­e fights.

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