Quick Hit: NARAL Pro-Choice America's statement on Democratic National Committee's Platform Language
Nancy Keenan served as a member of the platform committee and participated in the committee's meeting this past weekend in Pittsburgh. She also presented testimony at the platform drafting committee meeting two weeks ago in Cleveland.
The language in this platform reaffirms, in the strongest of terms, the Democratic Party's solid commitment to a woman's right to choose as defined by Roe v. Wade. We are pleased that the party adopted language that is consistent with NARAL Pro-Choice America's work to ensure that women have access to a full range of reproductive-health options, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing safe, legal abortion. We are also pleased that, during the full platform, no debates, changes, or amendments were raised related to a woman's right to choose.
Read it online.
What do you think about the language?
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I have a question-according to the New York Times, hardly an anti-choice publication by any means, 90 percent of fetuses with Down Syndrome are aborted. As a disability advocate, that concerns me greatly. What do you all think of the part of NARAL's statement that reads, "healthy children"? To me, that sounds like a statement that actually encourages women to have abortions if they find out that their fetus has a disability of some kind. I'm curious in regard to how people on this forum feel about that. And, how can the pro-choice and pro-life communities work together to prevent abortion based on disability and counseling that actually encourages women to go in that direction? How can we, as a society, make it easier for woman to keep children with disabilities?