{"id":63,"date":"2008-08-12T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/draft-of-new-democratic-platfo.html"},"modified":"2008-08-12T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T12:22:52","slug":"draft-of-new-democratic-platfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/draft-of-new-democratic-platfo.html","title":{"rendered":"Draft of New Democratic Platform Language on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft language for the 2008 Democratic Party platform on abortion: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman&#8217;s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to affordable family planning services and comprehensive age-appropriate sex education which empower people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions. The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman&#8217;s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"storycontent\">The 2004 Democratic Party plank on abortion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"storycontent\" dir=\"ltr\">Because we believe in the privacy and equality of women, we stand proudly for a woman&#8217;s right to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, and regardless of her ability to pay. We stand firmly against Republican efforts to undermine that right. At the same time, we strongly support family planning and adoption incentives. Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"storycontent\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/CBNnews\/426142.aspx\">David Brody<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft language for the 2008 Democratic Party platform on abortion: The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman&#8217;s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.The Democratic Party also strongly supports access&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-election-08"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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