Totally inane for NARAL, Planned Parenthood to battle with Bernie with 100% rating from them.

[DirkGently]

36. "Safe, legal, and RARE" -- Hillary Clinton.

This has been a bit of an odd fight for HRC to pick. Other than her close ties to Wall Street and her support of the Iraq war, I think her most substantive deficiency as a progressive has been her triangulation on abortion rights and gay rights.

Her adoption of the anti-abortion position that we should be just as concerned with making abortion "rare" as with ensuring safe, legal access, always struck me as a politically calculated betrayal. It's along the same lines as her other fudges, delays, and silences on human rights. Marriage equality leaps to mind. Remember that odd non-answer about how she never changed her mind, but rather the country "evolved" or something?

To me, Hillary follows this same pattern of trying to be as safe as possible first, then backfilling once something has already been decided. I do not see how she can claim to be the real "champion" when her pattern is to equivocate first, never push for anything not already well supported, then speak up loudly when the fight is over (and claim she never changed her thinking in the process).

Which results in this precise kind of undermining.

"Safe, legal, and rare?"

This is the best "champion" we have for women's reproductive freedoms?

I'm sorry, but that just is not her style. Champions stick their necks out.