The most inviolable policy position on the American Left today is support for legal abortion and Planned Parenthood. Remember the negotiations over the government shutdown last Spring, when Democrats gave in on everything — almost. The New York Times reported:
At one crucial moment in the game of chicken over a looming shutdown of the United States government, and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, faced off in the Oval Office. Mr. Boehner, a Republican heavily outnumbered in the room by Democrats, was demanding a provision to restrict financing to Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide abortions. Mr. Obama would not budge.
Given how intimately their fundraising network is tied to Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion lobby, this is no surprise. But you see the power of this Democratic abortion absolutism in all sorts of places — even the quixotic 2004 presidential race of Dennis Kucinich.
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