Democrats drop a word, err badly on abortion
Columnist Margaret Carlson poses in her office in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2005. Photographer: Jay Mallin/Bloomberg News
I hate to bring up abortion during the Democrats’ festivities, which are going so swimmingly, but I have a question.
Why has the party removed the sentence “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare” from its platform? It was in the 2004 document but not in 2008’s or this year’s. Can’t Democrats just throw a crumb to the many millions who are pro-choice but not pro-abortion?