Pro-Choice? I Don't Think So

In 2003, as part of his campaign for a Senate seat from Illinois that would set him up for his presidential run, Barack Obama fielded questions. "I am pro-choice," he said, so a local reporter prodded, "In all situations, including the late-term thing?" Obama pushed past that explosive question, and repeated himself: "I am pro-choice. I believe that women make responsible choices and they know better than anybody the tragedy of a difficult pregnancy and I don't think that it's the government's role to meddle in that choice."

Conservative critics play up the supposed radicalism of Obama, but in this respect, he is a boringly and ghoulishly conventional modern Democrat. Obama has consistently stood against any legal limitations to abortion. He has gone so far as to oppose legislation while he was in the Illinois state house that would have extended legal protections to fetuses accidentally born during abortions -- or, as most of us would call them, live babies.

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