NARAL Pro-Choice America on Sen. Barack Obama’s VP Selection

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2008


Statement from NARAL Pro-Choice America on Sen. Barack Obama’s Vice-Presidential Selection


Washington, D.C. – Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, issued the following statement in response to Sen. Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice-presidential running mate.

"Sen. Biden has consistently expressed support for a woman's right to choose. While we have not agreed with him on every vote, we have a longstanding relationship with Sen. Biden that is open, positive, and constructive, and we are confident this will continue in a new administration under Sen. Obama's pro-choice leadership.

"Most notably, Sen. Biden has a strong record of opposing judicial nominees with hostile anti-choice records. He voted against George W. Bush's two anti-choice nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, and he opposed anti-choice Justice Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Court as well as multiple anti-choice nominees to lower federal courts.

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excerpted from:

http://www.naral.org/elections/election-pr/pr08232008_bidenpick.html

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I'm guessing at least one of the votes they didn't agree on was Biden's vote (for) the third trimester abotion ban.

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1. Yeah

But NARAL knows it's about SCOTUS and getting SANE judges in there that understand women's rights are not superseded by tissue with different DNA.

Obama has reached out to NARAL. I hate it when votes have to be politic--a third trimester abortion is private medical decision between a woman and her physician. There should be no politics. There should be no debate. But there you are, politic bullshit.