Ethics

No Abortion! No Exceptions!

By Ed Brayton

To show you just how extreme the Republican platform is on abortion, McCain wants to change the plank on abortion to include an exception for rape, incest and the life of the mother and all hell is breaking loose. ABC News reports:

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., faces enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP's platform on abortion.

"If he were to change the party platform," to account for exceptions such as rape, incest or risk to the mother's life, "I think that would be political suicide," said Tony Perkins, the president of the conservative Family Research Council, to ABC News. "I think he would be aborting his own campaign because that is such a critical issue to so many Republican voters and the Republican brand is already in trouble."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).