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[...] Why Won’t Dean Say He’s Pro-Choice? By Rob on October 31, 2005 at 11:38 pm [...]

I’m not trying to start an argument over abortion rights here. Just let’s remember that there’s more than two sides.

I understand your point, Todd, but you have to remember that for someone like me there are only two sides.  You are either in favor of killing unborn children, or you are not.  I am not.  I consider it a foul sort of crime that is having a terribly detrimental effect on our society as it decreases the appreciation for life and acting responsibly.

So, to me, the fact that Dean wants to avoid the pro-choice label means he wants to muddy the waters and appear to move more toward the center without actually compromising his beliefs.

It’s a political move, and indicative of the political climate right now.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Hack job.  As much as I dislike Dean (and lemme tell ya..) he did repeatedly state a position: “a woman has a right to make, and a family has a right to make up their own mind.” He did kind of dance around the label ‘pro-choice,’ but Matthews focused on that instead lf what Dean was saying.
If I described my opinions on abortion to you, you’d label me ‘pro-choice,’ and you’d be right.  But there’s more to it than that, and tucking me neatly under that label basically lets you ignore the rest.
I’m not trying to start an argument over abortion rights here.  Just let’s remember that there’s more than two sides.

I agree with this:

he did repeatedly state a position: “a woman has a right to make, and a family has a right to make up their own mind.” He did kind of dance around the label ‘pro-choice,’ but Matthews focused on that instead lf what Dean was saying.

And this:

the fact that Dean wants to avoid the pro-choice label means he wants to muddy the waters and appear to move more toward the center without actually compromising his beliefs.