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Reader diary posted by cpc_watcher, CPC Watch June 23, 2009 - 3:37pm
Jon Stewart's interview with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee sought to create "common ground" on the abortion issue, but Stewart was not at all equipped with the tools to refute Huckabee's main talking points.
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Tiffany Campbell of South Dakota talks about her activism against the abortion ban, and how legal abortion allowed her to have her baby. Also: debate analysis, and the question of Sarah Palin and feminism.
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Obama seeks middle ground on abortion; McCain slammed for 'sarcastic air quotes'; Abortion restrictions on the ballot in Colorado, South Dakota and California; Broad support for reproductive health bill in Phillipines; UN says more focus on women needed in fight against HIV; 'HIV positive' Muppet educates kids on the disease in South Africa.
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Pundits and bloggers thought that by dismissing an exception to abortion bans for women's health, McCain was alienating the very voters he had spent months courting.
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Debate analysis; how Catholics should vote; California newspaper editorialize in opposition to parental notification.
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Bob Schieffer asked Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain "[c]ould either of you ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court who disagrees with you on this issue? Senator McCain?"
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Senator John McCain repeated long debunked lies about Sen. Barack Obama's record on the Illinois Born Alive Protection Act.
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Barack Obama and John McCain had a full discussion of sexual and reproductive health issues in the final presidential debate tonight.
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In Nebraska older children abandoned under law for babies; Palin and Biden agree on gay rights at debate; McCain administration would be a setback for women; Bush puts popular California family planning program at risk; Complaints filed against Bloomberg for pregnancy bias; EU to offer 18 weeks of maternity leave; and more.
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With Sarah Palin's appeal to social conservatives and Joe Biden's pro-choice Catholicism, expect the McCain campaign to go all-in with the Culture War in Thursday's debate.
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