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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (615521)	8/31/2004 11:52:41 PM
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I have seen no platform that says no abortions Delegates at the Republican National Convention in New York City on Monday adopted a platform that "reaffirms" the party's opposition to abortion rights, USA Today reports (USA Today, 8/31). The platform's section on abortion -- titled "Upholding the Rights of All" -- is five paragraphs long, expanded from two paragraphs in the 2000 party platform. The endorsement calls for a constitutional ban on abortion and says that "the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life, which cannot be infringed." The platform also applauds President Bush's restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Bush's stem cell policy, which he announced on Aug. 9, 2001, limits federally funded embryonic stem cell research to cell lines created on or before that date. medicalnewstoday.com Personally, I think it's a big fish, and an indicative one, when a party calls for compulsory, government-enforced gestation for its female citizens. Calls for a Constitutional Amendment to enforce it. (Enforce it only on those without the means to go elsewhere for safe abortions, of course.) I think it's positively scary.