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Palin Urges Voters Not to Forget the "Right to Life"

Desperate times call for desperate measures. No one knows this better than the McCain campaign, which is attempting to make abortion a key issue in this year’s election, yet again. Yawn.

As Sarah Palin told Pennsylvania voters, “In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that.”

Actually, I’m pretty sure he’s just more focused on the “wars and financial crisis”—as, apparently, are the American people. As Slate’s Melinda Henneberger points out, even people who have been single issue, anti-choice voters in the past have decided that the economy, the environment, and health care matter more than Roe v. Wade this time around.

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Comments

 

Treespeed said:

Yawn is right. You would think that the last thing Palin would want to do is talk about pregnancy. It's like being lectured about the dangers of junk food by a smoker.

October 14, 2008 4:55 PM
 

Elendy said:

Ugh - this woman is such an idiot!  I have to admit, even though her views on reproductive choice are terrifying, I find it somewhat reassuring to see her grasping at straws like this.

Honestly though, she doesn't have anything else to talk about! A friend of mine who works for the NY Times said he was covering the leader of Georgia when she sat down with him at the UN and it was painfully uncomfortable b.c. the only thing she had to talk to him about was whether or not he had kids!!

What an embarrassment to our country - ech!

October 14, 2008 5:51 PM
 

Maureen said:

Right to life, huh.... I think she is pro-death penalty.

October 14, 2008 6:19 PM
 

Della said:

Maureen, don't you get it? Life ends at birth!

Oy. If you want to call yourself pro-life, try not supporting the death penalty, not being pro-war, and doing something to increase health care access. 'Cause seriously, it isn't only the embryos that count.

October 14, 2008 7:48 PM
 

Knitty said:

A thousand times WORD, Della.

October 15, 2008 8:52 AM
 

leahsmom said:

Della,

That should be on a T-shirt somewhere.

October 15, 2008 12:14 PM
 

Della said:

Thank you!

October 15, 2008 6:16 PM

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Hannah Tennant-Moore is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Buddhist Writing (2008); The Sun; Guantanamo: Inside the Prison, Outside the Law; Tricycle; Turning Wheel (as the winner of the Young Writers Award); and elsewhere.

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