Excerpt from the Platform of the Democratic Party

The following statement (part of the platform) was officially accepted at the quadrennial Democratic National Convention held last week in Denver CO.

"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right. The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to affordable family planning services and comprehensive age-appropriate sex education which empowers people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions. The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman's decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre- and post-natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs."

We can all be grateful to the Democratic Party for being upfront and unequivocal about the fact that it strongly supports unrestricted abortion — 24 / 7 / 365, at all times and all places and under all circumstances, with or without parental consent in the case of minors — together with the obligation of the American taxpayer to pay for same.  Abortion is, of course, the act of homicide directed against an unborn child.  Such forthrightness on the part of the Democratic Party is helpful to the public, because it removes ambiguity.  Please note that the phrase “family planning services” means, most of all, artificial contraception — which, not infrequently, includes de facto early-term abortions.