[Vision2020] Palin Heightens Rhetoric on Abortion

[Saundra Lund]

Thanks for sharing this, Tom.

And, for those for whom privacy and reproductive rights are important,
remember that while Palin *says* she for contraceptive use, she is against
emergency contraceptives (e.g., the morning after pill) since "life" starts
at the moment of conception.

Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:34 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Palin Heightens Rhetoric on Abortion

Sarah Palin, who would make it illegal for your raped 13 year old daughter
to terminate her pregnancy, is calling out Obama for his "extreme views on
abortion".

>From CNN at:

http://tinyurl.com/3jj3h8

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Palin Heightens Rhetoric on Abortion
Story Highlights
Sarah Palin, Barack Obama both campaign Saturday in Pennsylvania

Palin hammers Obama on the abortion issue in Johnstown

Obama acknowledges McCain's efforts to "tone down the rhetoric"

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the
culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a
radical on abortion rights.

The stop comes amid news that Palin violated Alaska ethics law by trying to
get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state
investigator's report for the bipartisan Legislative Council concluded
Friday.

Ethics woes aside, Palin focused her attention on abortion -- an issue that
rallies the conservative base but some say alienates independent and women
voters.

"In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be
easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and
it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that," Palin told a
crowd in Johnstown. "He hopes that you won't notice how radical, absolutely
radical his idea is on this, and his record is, until it's too late."

Palin has mostly avoided raising her opposition to abortion rights on the
campaign trail since she was tapped as Sen. John McCain's running mate, a
fact she readily acknowledged in her remarks. Watch more of Palin's views on
abortion ;

But Palin said Obama's record on the matter is too extreme to be ignored,
and she spent 10 minutes of her 30-minute speech discussing abortion.

"A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to
smother the open and democratic debate that we deserve and that we need on
this issue of life," she said. "Obama is a politician who has long since
left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life."

Obama opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's
decision in Roe v. Wade and disagreed with Supreme Court ruling to uphold
the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act." He did not cast a vote on Prohibiting
Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007.

Palin opposes abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, except when
a mother's life is in danger, and said she believes Roe v. Wade should be
overturned and the decision given to the states.

McCain voted for the Prohibit Partial Birth Abortion bill in 2003 and "yes"
for Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007.
He believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and
also supports the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Partial Birth Abortion
Ban Act.

Palin also talked about a remark Obama made about sex education while
campaigning in Johnstown in March, when he told a voter he didn't want his
daughters "punished with a baby" or "punished with an STD" if they were not
educated about sex and made a mistake.

"So I listened when our opponent defended his unconditional support for
unlimited abortions and he said he said that a woman shouldn't have to be
'Punished with a baby,' " Palin said as the audience jeered at Obama.
"Ladies and gentlemen, he said that right here in Johnstown. 'Punished with
a baby.' It's about time we called him on it."

Obama is also in Pennsylvania Saturday -- campaigning in the heavily
Democratic city of Philadelphia.

During his four-stop swing around the city, Obama acknowledged McCain's
efforts to "tone down the rhetoric" on the campaign trail.

"I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being
respectful of each other. I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- Sen.
McCain has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks for
that," Obama told an early morning crowd assembled in the northern part of
the city. Watch more of Obama's comments ;

Ever since last weekend, when Palin first accused Obama of "palling around
with a terrorist," referring to 1960s radical William Ayers, rowdy crowds
have called Obama a liar, terrorist and worse.

At an event Friday in Lakeville, Minnesota, McCain referred to Obama as a
"decent person" and praised him as a "family man" after two voters expressed
fear over Obama being elected. Watch McCain tell voters not to be afraid of
Obama ;

But the Arizona senator was met by a sea of boos when asking the crowd to be
more respectful toward Obama.

When the crowd began to boo, McCain told them "No, no. I want everyone to be
respectful."

Obama later dispensed with polite talk and pivoted to his main campaign
trail argument that McCain is out of touch on the economy.

"Sen. McCain's campaign manager actually said that Sen. McCain wasn't
talking about the market because there's just not much a candidate for
president can say -- and they aren't sure what he'd say each day even if he
did talk about it," Obama said.

"But here's the thing Philadelphia. They can run misleading ads, and pursue
the politics of anything goes, they can try to change the subject. 
They can do that what they want to do because the American people understand
what's going on -- but it's not going to work. Not this time."

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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