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The Choice on Choice
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As best I can tell, the Clinton campaign's attacks on Barack Obama's record on abortion rights and their attacks on his counterattcks are, as Dana Goldstein reports, basically false.
In a larger sense, though, efforts to even raise this issue ring a bit hollow to me. After all, what's the beef here supposed to be? What is it that's supposed to make me, as a pro-choice voter, worry about the prospect of an Obama administration? To the best of my knowledge, Obama, like Clinton, would appoint pro-choice judges, repeal the global gag rule, sign a Freedom of Choice Act, veto abortion restrictions that don't adequately safeguard a mother's health, etc., etc. If that's not true -- if Obama has some meaningful policy disagreement with Clinton -- then that'd be a great issue to raise. But if there isn't, then there isn't.
In a larger sense, though, efforts to even raise this issue ring a bit hollow to me. After all, what's the beef here supposed to be? What is it that's supposed to make me, as a pro-choice voter, worry about the prospect of an Obama administration? To the best of my knowledge, Obama, like Clinton, would appoint pro-choice judges, repeal the global gag rule, sign a Freedom of Choice Act, veto abortion restrictions that don't adequately safeguard a mother's health, etc., etc. If that's not true -- if Obama has some meaningful policy disagreement with Clinton -- then that'd be a great issue to raise. But if there isn't, then there isn't.
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