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To: PartyTime who wrote (516192)	12/27/2003 12:06:48 AM
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Lieberman Defends Abortion Remarks Roe Stance Misreported, Senator Says By Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 27, 2003; Page A08 Democratic presidential candidate Joseph I. Lieberman's position on abortion came under fire yesterday after a New Hampshire newspaper quoted him as saying that medical advances have shortened "the period of time in a pregnancy when the right to choose prevails." The Connecticut senator's campaign said the Manchester Union Leader had quoted him accurately but misrepresented his position by saying that he had called for a reexamination of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. "In fact, Lieberman never suggested that Roe v. Wade should be revisited or reconsidered in any way, shape or form," said Lieberman spokesman Jano Cabrera. In a statement yesterday, Lieberman reassured supporters that as president he "will work hard to make sure that abortions are safe, legal and rare." Democratic front-runner Howard Dean, who has faced considerable criticism from Lieberman for his position against the war in Iraq, wasted no time in firing back. Lieberman's comments indicate he is "very much off base and doesn't understand the science," Dean told the Associated Press. In the Union Leader interview, Lieberman said that in the 30 years since Roe v. Wade, physicians have lowered the age at which a fetus can survive on its own. "To me, Roe v. Wade said that in the stages of pregnancy up to viability [of the fetus], the state basically cannot intervene in a decision a woman makes whether to go forward with a pregnancy or not. But after viability, the state can regulate that choice because the interest of the fetus goes up," he said. "What has changed is that the court talked in terms of trimesters," he continued, "but has viability -- because of the extraordinary advances in medical science -- begun to occur at an earlier stage?" Lieberman noted that in a 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court abandoned the trimester framework. According to the Union Leader, Lieberman said that "the period of time in a pregnancy when the right to choose prevails has been somewhat shortened." The point of fetal viability "is now in some cases 24 or 25 weeks and in a few cases, a little bit less," he said. Cabrera said Lieberman had intended to say "absolutely nothing new" and was merely explaining the evolution of the Supreme Court's rulings on abortion. Meanwhile, Dean told another New Hampshire newspaper that the raising of the nation's terrorism threat level to orange had bolstered his contention that the capture of Saddam Hussein did not make America safer. "My opponents spent the week criticizing me for that, which I think was to their detriment" on Dec. 21, when the federal government increased the terror alert level to orange, or high risk, from yellow, or elevated risk, Dean told the Concord Monitor. Dean also declined to say whether he thought Osama bin Laden should be executed for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying he adhered to the "old-fashioned notion" that it is unwise to prejudge a possible trial, no matter how heinous the crime.