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Friday, January 23, 2009 11:59 AM
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Hanna Rosin
shifted radically over the last five years, but you wouldn't know it from listening to those protesters. Democratic interest groups have been working hard to shift their party's language about abortion. Candidates hardly ever talk about "choice" anymore. They don't even stop at Clinton's "safe, legal, and rare." Nowadays, they take that formula one step further and use the word "reduction," as in, "we will actively pass laws that help reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, in order to ultimately reduce the number of abortions." (See my Atlantic story here, and Amy Sullivan's great book.) Of course, it is a classic strategy of the party in opposition to create straw men. Democrats did it, too. But I can't imagine the callous-to-life argument will stick to Obama, who has mastered the kind of religious overtones that make him impervious to this charge.
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