Obama gets it, McCain doesn’t
by Karina
Web Editor
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund
Earlier this summer, Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorsed Obama—-we really feel that he is committed to working to advance the health and rights of women. This is in strong contrast to his opponent, John McCain, who is fervently anti-choice and doesn't even want to focus on reducing the number of unintended pregnancies through practical solutions like comprehensive sex ed and funding for family planning to increase access to birth control and other contraceptives. To borrow a phrase from Obama's speech last night, John McCain just "doesn't get it."
Luckily, in Barack Obama, we have a candidate who DOES get it. And he demonstrated that in his speech with just one short sentence.
"We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country."
Obama gets it because he knows that we are never all going agree on the abortion issue. But he believes strongly that we can use common sense measures to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, and thus avoid abortion bans and restrictions, while simultaneously retaining reproductive rights. If that's not a silver bullet, I don't know what is!
But John McCain DOESN'T get it. He'd rather enact laws that insult women's intelligence and pick away at their rights. He'd rather appoint judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade. He'd rather cater to the extreme right and support inefficient programs like abstinence only education. And McCain thinks he can win over women voters by acting like a "maverick" and selecting a woman to be his VP. Too bad his VP selection, Sarah Palin, is also fervently anti-choice.
So if John McCain thinks he can get women's votes with his anti-women record, he's got another thing coming. To quote Cecile Richards, President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
"A Woman Voting for John McCain Would be Like a Chicken Voting for Colonel Sanders"
I don't know about you, but I am one woman who is not about to let John McCain deep-fry my rights.
Show your support for electing Pro-Choice president, Barack Obama, by embedding this handy dandy Countdown to a Pro-Choice President Widget. And keep talking to your friends about the truth about John McCain.
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