Democrat Presidential Candidates Grovel to Extremists

In a sad attempt to garner the support of our nation’s largest pro-abortion organization, the six original candidates for the Democrat presidential nomination, the field has since expanded, spent the evening of January 21, 2003, at a “NARAL Pro-Choice America” fund-raising dinner. All six candidates - John Kerry, Howard Dean, Richard Gephardt, Joseph Lieberman, Al Sharpton, and John Edwards - stood up and bragged about their pro-abortion positions, often focusing on how killing unborn children is a “fundamental right.”

Although these candidates may have found a welcoming audience for their ridiculously extreme views for one night this year, they’ll be hard-pressed to find a similar audience on any other night. Most people don’t like to take part in dinners that celebrate a decision that has led to the deaths of more than 40 million children. Yet all of the above candidates have strong pro-abortion voting records or have been vocal about their support for abortion on demand.

Most of these candidates, with the exception of Dick Gephardt, have voted or said that they would want to keep partial-birth abortion (PBA) legal. During his 1998 Senate Campaign, John Edwards called PBAs “terribly gruesome procedures” and said they should be banned, only to vote against the ban in 1999 and skip this year’s vote. Senator John Kerry also skipped the March 13, 2003, vote even though he has fervently supported this despicable procedure through his entire career. Senator Joe Lieberman has been quoted as calling PBA “horrific” and “abominable,” but has voted six times to keep this “horrific” and “abominable” procedure legal.

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