[lbo-talk] NYT: "Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 20 12:22:04 PST 2004


Jon Johanning wrote:


>My theory, which is probably just wishful thinking, is that the
>anti-abortion people don't have many more, if any, votes they can
>bring out of the woodwork by actually passing legislation, but if
>they try to actually attack abortion rights, and push the other
>"values" stuff, it will bring out a lot of the apathetic folks on
>the other side who sat out this election, but will be angry enough
>to get into action when they see the Right actually taking their
>rights away.

But they're doing it with "salami tactics," as they used to say in the cold war days. Partial birth (see, they've even changed the language!), Conner's (sp?) law, bans on public funding, this new funding scheme. At some point, overturning Roe v Wade could just end up as a formality.

Doug



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