The debate (gore buckling on pro-choice??)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 5 08:40:45 PDT 2000


JessEcoh at cs.com wrote:


>the surprise for me was -- did i HEAR this right?? -- gore offering to
>sign a bill banning so-called "partial-birth abortions" (with some caveats
>about exceptions for the health of the mother)... or has gore been saying
>this all along, and i'm so out of touch i didn't know about it?? what the
>hell??

<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/politics/04RTEXT2.html>

Gore: "First of all, on the issue of partial-birth or so-called late-term abortion, I would sign a law banning that procedure, provided that doctors have the ability to save a woman's life or to act if her health is severely at risk."

Doug



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