...Party platforms do not typically garner a lot of attention in the media. But they matter immensely, because they are often the only place to get the party's official list of principles and policy goals. As in past election years, the 2008 Democratic Party platform re-affirms the party's commitment to Roe v. Wade and taxpayer funding of abortions. But this year the platform dropped any reference to the goal of making abortion "rare".... [emphasis added]
Pro-life Democrats urged the platform committee to include language about the need to reduce the number of abortions....
But this request was ignored.
Some Democrats point to fresh platform language stating that the party "strongly supports a woman's decision to have a child..." as proof that the party has "softened" its approach to abortion...
Sleight of hand...turn the tables...confuse and obfuscate the issues.
...The new language also adds the word "unequivocally" to describe the party's support for abortion rights....
Unequivocal support for infanticide - a fundamental plank of the party platform. The party of the poor and defensless cares not for the most defenseless among us...
...the new platform language does not even recognize a moral dimension to abortion....By omitting such language, the Democratic Party has revealed that it thinks people of goodwill cannot believe abortion is wrong. It has effectively stated: pro-life Americans need not apply to the Democratic Party....
Sad, indeed. How many lifelong Democrats, especially Catholics, have yet to see that the party has been hijacked by extremists?
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