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Last week Politico published a whopper of an op-ed by fundamentalist mouthpiece and former Family Research Council President Gary Bauer, entitled "Obama's anti-youth agenda." Among other accusations, Bauer claims:
But the Obama agenda isn't just hitting young people in their wallets. It’s tearing their souls, literally and figuratively. With his Supreme Court picks and by advocating taxpayer funding of abortion.Yesterday Politico published a great rebuttal by Advocates' very own Sarah Audelo and our colleague Gregory Cendana, President of the United States Student Association. The two write:
Obama has advanced the abortion rights cause more than any other president. Obama's position on abortion can credibly be called pro-abortion, not pro-abortion rights, because, through numerous measures, he is compelling all Americans to underwrite the procedure.
According to Bauer, Obama has "advanced the abortion rights cause more than any president in history." Really? Health care reform offered a unique opportunity to pursue public funding by ending the Hyde Amendment. Instead, Obama declared "this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill."Read the full response here.
By defending the status quo rather than progressive principles, Obama again put women's rights on the chopping block.
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Gary Bauer is crazy. Abortion right have never been more threatened. It just keeps getting worse. Obama hasn't done anything to advance abortion rights/access. Well, except for lifting the global gag rule, but that's international, not domestic.
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