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Dean the Abortionist
The American Spectator has a great article on Howard Dean, the far-left abortionist now in charge of one of America's leading liberal parties. Here is an excerpt:
At the very moment Democrats are claiming to distance themselves from abortion, they run back towards it by making Howard Dean -- a former doctor for Planned Parenthood -- their public face. Though the press almost never mentions it, Dean did an OB/GYN rotation for Planned Parenthood in the 1970s and later served as an executive board member of Planned Parenthood New England, meaning that he directly oversaw the largest abortion provider in the region. Were the Democrats sincerely moving to the middle on abortion, selecting a former overseer of abortion would have been the last thing to do.
Now they have managed to lash themselves to abortion even tighter by turning a Planned Parenthood alumnus and mascot -- Dean received the organization's Margaret Sanger award -- into the party's chief spokesman. Yes, like Hillary Clinton, Dean will try and call a few audibles on his old colleagues and friends at Planned Parenthood. But that won't work. In politics, past is prologue and perception.
Dean will repeat his line, "We're not the party of abortion," but who will believe him? After all, he said last year that he represents the "Democratic wing of the Democratic party," by which he obviously meant the pro-abortion wing of the party, such a point of pride to him during the primaries that he retailed stories about referring teens for abortion back in his days as a pediatrician.
Who came up with the idea of "$5 copay" abortions? Dr. Dean. Vermont had the highest rate of abortion in the country under him, averaging 359 abortions for every 1,000 live births. Vermont pro-lifers laugh aloud at the media's lazy description of Dean as a moderate willing to make overtures to pro-lifers. That's not the Howard Dean they remember. . . .
A hat tip to OrthoDixie.
I am amazed at how someone from the Far Left can be painted as "moderate" by the media. It's almost as strange as hearing George W. Bush described as "conservative," especially after going out of his way to support pro-abortionist Arlen Specter in his primary campaign against a conservative Republican, and then to support Specter as head of the Judiciary Committee. Abortionists can relax. They have nothing to worry about in the next few years, unless the Day of Judgment comes a little earlier than most people think.