Reducing Abortion Reductions

Here is an interesting post about Tony Campolo's effort to soften the pro-abortion plank in the Democrats platform.  I couldn't find a permalink, so you'll have to scroll down to find the entry.  The highlights about the inner-workings at the DNC meeting, and a pro-life, evangelical Christian Democrat follow:

Tony Campolo is a rare bird indeed--an evangelical Protestant who’s also a Democrat and pro-life. He was on the platform committee and worked on the plank dealing with abortion. At yesterday’s meeting of pro-life Democrats, Campolo was introduced as the committee member responsible for the new language endorsing the goal of “reducing abortion.” He said that he’d first proposed the term “abortion reduction,” but there was objection from the pro-abortion rights types who dominated the committee. So he countered with “reducing abortion.” Campolo said he didn’t know why abortion reduction was a problem for the pro-choicers since “reducing abortion” means the same thing. Campolo also talked about what he failed to get in the abortion plank, among other things a statement that abortion involves serious moral issues...

So, it was too controversial to say having an abortion involves serious moral issues--not, mind you, to say that it is 'morally wrong', just that it involves moral issues, which might be serious.  Fascinating inside look on how the DNC's platform committee thinks.

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Thomas More

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Comments

[didymus]

didn't Barak Obama, when speaking to Rick Warren, take credit for this new "plank" in the Democratic platform???

[Thomas More]

He probably did--I don't recall--but, in fairness, the candidate almost always totally controls what gets modified in that year's platform. So if Tony C was the agent who actually proposed the change, you can bet Obama and/or his advisors signed off on allowing it to go through the platform committee. In that way, he probably should get some credit--unless he said 'no' to Campolo and Campolo got it passed through over Obama's objection--which I very much doubt.