75% of pro-choice voters need to know the truth: John McCain does not support a woman's right to choose
by Morra Aarons Mele

Among McCain's pro-choice women supporters, 50% don't know his positions and an additional 25% assume his views are in line with their own! McCain has stated (it's on his website) he thinks Roe v Wade should be overturned.

Catherine Morgan asked: "Is John McCain a Pro-Choice Republican? Would you vote for him if he was? There seems to be a lot of confusion over whether or not John McCain is pro-choice or pro-life. Why is that"? I agree, Catherine, but we need to work to end this confusion. If you are pro-choice it is your job to tell the truth about John McCain! McCain owes much of his success among independents and moderates because of glowing press coverage about his bi-partisanship and McCain's success at creating a false sense of his principles. But on choice, McCain's record is really, really anti-choice. Not only anti-choice: anti-sex ed, anti-emergency contraception, anti-women. Please click here to read the record and find a printable flyer to spread around.

A new poll from Planned Parenthood/Hart Research shows:

In fact, about half of these pro-choice McCain voters (50% in a match-up against Obama and 52% in a match-up against Clinton) volunteer that they do not know enough to even describe McCain’s position on abortion and roughly another one in four (23% in either contest) mistakenly presume that he is in step with their own views.

Thank you, Catherine, for raising this issue and while I'm not a single issue voter by any means, choice is very important. We are dangerously close in the Supreme Court to a majority that would overturn Roe v Wade. The next president will have the power to make an appointment that would create an anti-choice Supreme Court. We can't let that happen.

Please click here to read the record and find a printable flyer to spread around.

More: McCain's record

NPR: misperceptions about McCain's stance

Lisa Stone, BlogHer Voter Manifesto: What do candidates really say about reproductive rights?

Submitted by Morra Aarons Mele (view blog) on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 9:47am

Comments

 

This has been on my mind ...

... since I saw Catherine's post.  There is no doubt that he will appoint ultra-conservative justices to the Supreme Court so that Roe would be overturned.  On his web page, he also comments that others should turn to adoption as a choice, which his family did.  As a mother by adoption, it infuriates me that people like McCain try to rely on the adoption argument to support their efforts to interfere in such personal decisions.

 

PunditMom, http://punditmom1.blogspot.com

Contributing Editor, Politics & News 

Submitted by PunditMom on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 10:51
 

Thanks for following-up on this Morra.

Thanks for following-up on this Morra. I think it is so important that voters know the truth about this issue. I totally don't agree with voting on a candidate over one issue, and I know you don't either...But, any Dems thinking about voting for McCain if the Democrat they are supporting doesn't get the nomination, is just crazy not smart. I can only assume that many of these Democrats are not aware of McCain's ANTI-CHOICE agenda. 

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
CatherineBlogs, The Political Voices of Women, Care2 Election Blog

Submitted by Catherine Morgan on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 11:12
 

You can think of the choice issue as a symbol

for McCain's fake "moderate" reputation. This false reputation is a work of PR genius...and its also a reason the Dems better settle the nomination stet- before McCain garners more independent support while also pandering to Conservatives!

Submitted by Morra Aarons Mele on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 11:45
 

MCCAIN'S POSITION?

ANY VOTE FOR MCCAIN, OTHER THAN HIS AND CINDY'S, IS A MISTAKE. HIS VOTING RECORD ON ALL VETERAN RELATED ISSUES IS SHAMEFUL. HE IS THE ONLY REMAINING POLITICAL FIGURE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE CHARLES KEATING FIASCO (MCCAIN WAS CENSURED BY CONGRESS REGARDING HIS ROLE) WHICH CAUSED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE (MOSTLY SENIOR CITIZENS) TO LOSE MUCH, IF NOT ALL OF THEIR LIFE'S SAVINGS. LINCOLN THRIFT; REMEMBER? 

 STAN LEVINE, ARIZONA

Submitted by slevine on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 03:26
 

Senator John Glenn

You are incorrect.  Senator John Glenn was also a member of the Keating 5 scandal.

Senator Glenn is helping Barack Obama out with his election.  The two links below have more information.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/06/obamas-keating-moment-glenn-stumps-for-team-o/

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/a-different-mem.html

 

 

Submitted by Toto on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 17:07
 

Thanks for the information

I knew this but I am surprised by how many women do not.  I will print some of those flyers to add to our voter registration tables in the coming weeks. 

Michelle

I blog at http://www.mommycan.blogspot.com/

Submitted by Southerngirl on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 05:35
 

The SC already has a conservative majority.
Remember 2000?

The SC already has a conservative majority. Remember 2000? It was the Supreme Court that ruled for Bush and against Gore. Since then, the GOP had 6 years of a GOP congress and appointed yet more conservative justices. I think if they really wanted to overturn RvW, they would have at least made a serious attempt by 2005, at their greatest strength. I think cynical politicians on both sides really want RvW to continue as a hot issue to keep their bases energized, and distract from other concerns.

Submitted by shellie on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 11:52
 

I'm pro-abortion, but the

I'm pro-abortion, but the money spent on legal and political battles over this might have brought us better contraceptives long ago.

Aside from obvious criminal situations*, why are the current contraceptives not being used or not working?

Apparently part of the problem is that some anti-abortion groups are also anti-contraception, even opposing condoms.  Palin is an exception to this. She supports sex education in schools to teach children about condoms, as "some may not learn this at home." In a recent interview asking about abortion, she said she was strongly for contraception as the solution, iirc.

Palin may be the leader who can bring the 'social conservatives' around to accepting contraception -- and actually get some better contraceptives developed.

 

*rape, incest, etc 

Submitted by shellie on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 13:37