transcript: "Got a pro-choice friend who's voting for McCain?" webchat

Happy Monday, pro-choice America.

I wanted to be sure you all checked out the transcript of our web chat from Friday. It ended up begin a great discussion full of tough but important questions that our political director Elizabeth Shipp had a great time answering. One interesting example:

Gayle:

The response I get from pro-choice Republicans is that there are bigger issues this time: tax increases under Obama, Republicans are more fiscally conservative (untrue, but they aren't convinced)

 

Elizabeth Shipp:

OK. So it's obvious that number one, whoever these pro-choice Republicans are, they are making more than $250,000 a year, which is the only way they wouldn't be getting a tax-cut under Obama. But I know this isn't the Obama for America webchat, so, I guess we'll just have to answer based on choice. Of course there are tremendously big and scary issues facing our country right now. The stock market is going bonkers, we're excited that gas is only $3.00 a gallon, and milk is crazy expensive. It's easy to get trapped into believing the easy definitions that McCain uses to attack Obama. But here's the thing: as I said before, being pro-choice like Barack Obama has so much more to do with your everyday life than you might think. It's about the cost of your birth control prescriptions. It's about cancer screenings for low-income women. It's about making sure our teens have medically-accurate sex education so they don't find themselves in a situation they don't know how to handle before they're ready.

If people are really concerned about taxes and what makes someone conservative or liberal, they need only to look to the candidate who will actually work to reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce the need for abortion, make birth control affordable, and keep clinics that provide family-planning and cancer screenings to low-income women throughout this country fully funded. That candidate is Barack Obama. John McCain won't do a thing to make anyone's life better...well, maybe Sarah Palin's.