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The next president.
Nat Hentoff
From the beginning, so very long ago, of the 2008 presidential campaign, many of the horde of self-proclaimed independent journalists reported that the Democrats were strategically moving toward the center, seeking some sort of common ground even with pro-lifers. Yet, when the Supreme Court this April upheld a federal ban on partial-birth abortion--once described by the pro-choice Daniel Patrick Moynihan as "minutes from infanticide"--the alarmed Hillary Clinton spoke for nearly all the Democratic presidential contenders when she announced it was "a dramatic departure from four decades of previous precedents safeguarding the health of pregnant women." And, on July 17, she (along with Barack Obama and John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth) pledged to Planned Parenthood that she would never even consider nominating anyone to the Supreme Court who would not proclaim support for Roe v. Wade. That reminded me of Ramesh Ponnuru's description of Democrats as "the party for whom abortion has become a kind of religion." I would say the same of the great majority of my colleagues in the press. As Susanne Millsaps of NARAL Pro-Choice America once said in tribute: "The media has been our best friend in this fight. They claim objectivity, but I know they're all pro-choice." As this heretical kind of writer who publishes in both the liberal Village Voice and the conservative Wash...See the full content of this document
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