Flip-Flopping on Abortion
In all likelihood the origin of the myth that John McCain is pro-choice is that it really is true that despite McCain’s solid pro-life record, back in 2000 he suggested modifying the Republican plank to call for the criminalization of abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or where failure to abort would kill the mother. That would be a far cry from the pro-choice position, but it would be somewhat more moderate than the current platform’s commitment to blanket criminalization. Then he lost the primary, his views swung to the left on a variety of views, and then starting with George W. Bush’s re-election campaign he swung his views on taxes, immigration, and a series of other issues back to the hard right. But as of April 2007 he was still mavericky on abortion:
Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., told ABC News Saturday that he still wants to change the GOP’s abortion platform to explicitly recognize exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.
But now his campaign says they won’t try to change the platform after all. Instead, the plan is to just try to avoid accepting any responsibility for his repeated cave-ins to conservative dogma.
17 Responses to “Flip-Flopping on Abortion”
Register
RSSLogin
Topic Cloud
ArchivesBlog RollAbout Matt YglesiasContact Me
Donate
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
While the Democratic platform “strongly and unequivocally supports” a Supreme Court decision that your nominee believes compels him to oppose laws affirming the personhood of an infant survivor of abortion.
Who’s dogmatic?
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
— John Sidney McCain III, August 1999
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am
I suppose dogma, used pejoratively in this context, is best defined as what other people believe. But, from a pro-life point of view, isn’t it incoherent to support rape and incest exceptions? If the fetus has legal rights, than those rights are not changed by the circumstances which lead to its conception. I suppose it’s more ‘dogmatic’ for McCain to leave a coherent platform in place; but wouldn’t he be a pandering politician if he supported an incoherent position because it polled better? It seems to me that whatever McCain does, he’s either pandering or ‘dogmatic’ from Matt’s point of view.
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Won’t change the platform? Wasn’t there a big article the other day about how just about the only person in the Republican party that had nothing to do with the platform was John McCain?
Or did I misread it and it was just another attempt to deflect blame into the “John McCain is responsible for nothing” negating sphere.
thesebastards.blogspot.com
March 1st, 2009 at 6:43 am
viagra
Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!
March 1st, 2009 at 7:57 pm
cialis
It is the coolest site,keep so!
March 11th, 2009 at 5:22 am
If you have to do it, you might as well do it right
March 13th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Excellent site. It was pleasant to me.
March 14th, 2009 at 6:04 am
I want to say – thank you for this!
xanax
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:36 am
tramadol
Great site. Good info
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 am
Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!
buy cheap viagra
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:31 am
It is the coolest site,keep so!
cheap brand pfizer viagra
April 9th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Excellent site, It was pleasant to me. viagra
April 14th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Excellent site, It was pleasant to me.
viagra