Kaine

[moriah]

27. Sorry, have to disagree at least with some of this.

1) The RW frame their bills for "life" exceptions usually, but not both life *and* health, and if any health exception no mental health exception, and usually restricted to "permanent impairment of function" being how bad a woman's health has to be damaged by the parasite drawing life off of theirs before she can have it removed. The 20-week abortion ban Casey voted for cloture on when he knew Obama had promised a veto had no health exception, but definitely a life of the mother exception.

2) That same bill also highlights another RW drift -- they want the procedure to be done in the way "most likely to preserve the life" of the child, unless it would make the woman's chance at survival worse. Yay, at least they aren't demanding Cesarean delivery when the life-threatening condition is a septic preterm birth. But boo, in that now that they got D&X outlawed they want to dictate that the abortion might have to be done by hysterotomy. Still, they've drifted away from D&X procedures being their main targets.

3) While Kaine might not support restrictions on that method now, in 2005 he *did* campaign on the promise to ban D&X procedures with an "enforceable" ban, which meant it had to have both life and health exceptions. And he used the "PBA" words when he said it, on his website, during that campaign.

I'm a woman who has read Kaine's record closely.