"Today the Supreme Court took a dangerous step backward in regard to Americans’ rights to personal choice and privacy…. While not unexpected, I believe this unfortunate decision is a clear signal that the Supreme Court is opening the door to further challenges to personal medical decisions between patients and doctors that should not involve the government. I am concerned, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated so clearly in her dissenting opinion, that this vote could be the beginning of ‘an effort to chip away a right declared again and again by this court.’  I sincerely hope that is not the case."

—Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM), 4/18/2007

In a rousing indictment of the Bush administration and the Supreme Court it created, Senator Barack Obama told a Planned Parenthood convention here on Tuesday that the next election would decide a fundamental question: "What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?"…

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton declared that President Bush had consistently "played politics with women’s health." She added, "He has chipped away at reproductive rights..."

She added, to cheers, "I want you to know that when I’m president, I will devote my very first days in office to reversing these ideological, anti-science, anti-prevention policies that this administration has put into place."…

Mr. Obama’s speech — and the reception it received from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund — underscored the power of the Supreme Court as a galvanizing issue for Democratic primary voters [emphasis added].

—Robin Toner, New York Times, 7/18/2007

In a speech on Tuesday, Barack Obama told his audience that the 2008 presidential election would answer the question: "What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?" What, one might wonder, does he want to protect our daughters from? An oversexualized culture? Predators on the Internet? Alas, no. Mr. Obama was addressing a Planned Parenthood convention and worried that if the wrong person got into the White House, our daughters might grow up in a country without . . . partial-birth abortions….

[A] donkey with a halo over his head graces the cover of Time magazine this week and the story inside chronicles "How the Democrats Got Religion." From faith working groups to faith breakfasts, Mr. Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are all participating in what strategist Mike McCurry tells Time is "a Great Awakening in the Democratic Party."…

Ms. Brown, the coordinator of the Faith in Action initiative at the Democratic National Committee, says she is working for a "big tent party," with plenty of room for people of faith. She tells me, for instance, that "evangelicals often get painted in broad strokes, as a monolith," but they’re not….

Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, is probably less than excited by such initiatives. She recently said in a speech, "I don’t want a progressive evangelical movement any more than I want the conservative one we have right now."

—Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal, 7/20/2007

To paraphrase NOW’s Kim Gandy: we don’t need pro-partial-birth- abortionists "who got religion" any more than the ones we already have.

All that hand waving about "Faith in Action" and "a Great Awakening in the Democratic Party" is the same deceitful baloney as Bill Clinton gave us with his vision of making abortion "safe, legal, and rare." It’s naïve to assume that these candidates’ defense of the indefensible is "just" catering to the activist left during the Democratic primaries. They won’t become less extremist on abortion after the primaries. Remember the "centrist" Democrat Bill Clinton. On his first day in office as president, he reversed the pro-life policies of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush by executive order. Later, he appointed the extreme, pro-abortion feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the successor to pro-life Justice Byron White. So much for moving to the "center."

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