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aidbo

(2,328 posts) Fri Jun 7, 2019, 10:47 AM Jun 2019

1972 ARTICLE SURFACES SHOWING BERNIE SANDERS BACKED ABORTION RIGHTS YEAR BEFORE ROE V WADE [View all]

https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-hyde-amendment-abortion-rights-1442412

Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders backed abortion rights and ridiculed male-dominated legislatures governing women's bodies in a 1972 article surfaced Wednesday. The commentary reveals another stark, decades-long contrast between he and former Vice President Joe Biden's progressive stances.

Sanders told Vermont's Bennington Banner newspaper in September 1972 -- months before the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v. Wade -- that abortion procedures should only be a concern between a woman and her physician. The article sits aside several letters the then-Liberty Union candidate for governor wrote to local newspapers calling for the abolition of "all laws dealing with abortion, drugs, sexual behavior."

The Bennington Banner confirmed to Newsweek Wednesday that Sanders was interviewed for the published 1972 article in which he feared women "will be forced to go to those states where abortions are legal."

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1972 ARTICLE SURFACES SHOWING BERNIE SANDERS BACKED ABORTION RIGHTS YEAR BEFORE ROE V WADE [View all] aidbo Jun 2019 OP

Good, I would argue that most if not all our candidates support the choice to have an abortion. Agschmid Jun 2019 #1

I would say all of them, although I know little about Williamson or Gabbard. George II Jun 2019 #16

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2019 #2

Just wanted to highlight the differences. Thx Joe aidbo Jun 2019 #3

Nice goin... thanks!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2019 #4

Many of the candidates supported abortion rights LibFarmer Jun 2019 #5

Biden voted against exceptions for RAPE and INCEST in the Hyde Amendment uawchild Jun 2019 #6

How did he vote since 1981 on those positions? George II Jun 2019 #9

That must have been some trick to move the goalposts back to the 70s. BannonsLiver Jun 2019 #10

At one time years ago the NFL goal posts were ON the goal line, now they're 10 yards back. George II Jun 2019 #11

That is another grave problem that Biden has LibFarmer Jun 2019 #13

I can see the OPs now BannonsLiver Jun 2019 #15

I'm pro-choice, but rape and incest "exemptions" don't make sense to me. thesquanderer Jun 2019 #32

Buttigieg was born in 1982. George II Jun 2019 #17

So did I. So did many of us. MineralMan Jun 2019 #7

"...calling for the abolition of "all laws dealing with abortion, drugs, sexual behavior." " ?? George II Jun 2019 #8

Are political positions from the 1970's and 1980's really going to be fair game? lapucelle Jun 2019 #12

So he was a Presidential Elector for the Socialist Workers' Party, but he was never a "member"? George II Jun 2019 #19

And there's the $11,000+ he took from the gun lobbies. lapucelle Jun 2019 #24

Wow! That's only $970 less than Texas' Henry Cuellar, whom Sanders' offshoot organization.... George II Jun 2019 #27

Yes, I think that if people are going to go back that far to find praiseworthy items ehrnst Jun 2019 #30

That would be congruent LibFarmer Jun 2019 #14

If we're discussing articles from 1972, I can think of some others from 1972 also. George II Jun 2019 #21

you dont need to scream. mopinko Jun 2019 #18

Copied from the article! Sorry it hurt your ears! aidbo Jun 2019 #22

If I were a Sanders supporter I'd think twice comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #20

+1 obamanut2012 Jun 2019 #23

IKR? nt LibFarmer Jun 2019 #25

Indeed. (nt) ehrnst Jun 2019 #31

What else did Bernie write in 1972?...nt SidDithers Jun 2019 #26

Could be anything. After all, back then he was a Vermont Free Man. George II Jun 2019 #28

Oh... right. (nt) ehrnst Jun 2019 #29