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標題[轉錄][新聞] 歐巴馬、馬坎墮胎議題攻防
時間Fri Sep 19 02:37:44 2008
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作者: pursuistmi (common people) 看板: IA
標題: [新聞] 歐巴馬、馬坎墮胎議題攻防
時間: Thu Sep 18 22:46:56 2008
標題:Obama calls out McCain on abortion
Candidates trying to strike right chord to reach critical voting group
updated 8:52 a.m. ET Sept. 18, 2008
WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain, an abortion rights opponent with a
conservative Senate record on the issue, seems content with the public's
perception that he's more moderate on the issue.
Democrat Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights, is only too happy to
remind voters where McCain stands, but he tries to make his case without
attracting too much attention.
Both candidates are gingerly trying to strike the right chord on abortion as
they reach out to a critical voting group — independents and moderates,
primarily women in swing-voting suburban regions of crucial states such as
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.
The candidates' carefully targeted ads on abortion and stem-cell research,
topics that enflame passions among both abortion-rights proponents and
opponents, illustrate how Republicans and Democrats alike are tailoring their
messages to specific groups of voters.
Obama is calling out McCain in ads that say the GOP nominee takes an "extreme
position on choice" and "will make abortion illegal." He is spreading his
message through low-profile radio ads and campaign mailings, though, hoping
to avoid being tagged as too liberal on a woman's right to choose to end a
pregnancy.
McCain, for his part, is responding with radio commercials promising to
support stem cell research to "unlock the mystery of cancer, diabetes, heart
disease." He doesn't mention that the research may be conducted with human
embryos, which many anti-abortion Republicans oppose. He also doesn't
publicize that his running mate, Sarah Palin, is more conservative than he is
on both abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
Palin opposes abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger; she
is against embryonic stem cell research.
Cultural issues have largely taken a back seat this presidential campaign to
the frail economy and the Iraq war, as well as questions of character and
promises of change.
But with polls showing a close White House race, each candidate is trying to
woo voters concerned about particular issues in hopes they will help tip the
balance on Nov. 4. As with abortion, the candidates are likely to use radio
and campaign mail on other social topics, such as gun control and gay rights.
Independent groups also are getting into the act with TV ads. One is trying
to make Obama look out of the mainstream even among abortion rights
supporters by casting him as far left. Another is encouraging McCain to
"embrace a pro-life agenda."
Unlike Democratic presidential nominees Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in
2004, Obama has not shied away from using abortion to reach out to
independents and moderate Republicans.
Democrats say President Bush's Supreme Court selections of conservatives John
Roberts and Samuel Alito gave Obama an opening to press the issue.
"Women are more worried now about the future of the court than in either of
the last two election cycles, and Obama has been tapping into that and making
this issue a big difference between him and McCain," said Democratic analyst
Jenny Backus.
Republicans question Obama's strategy. They say he doesn't understand that
the general electorate is more conservative than liberal and that most people
aren't single-issue voters on abortion.
"For the Obama people to try to make McCain into this passionate pro-lifer,
it doesn't make any sense," said Rich Galen, a Republican operative.
Obama's radio ad, running in Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and
elsewhere, features nurse practitioner Valerie Baron telling voters: "John
McCain's out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right
to choose."
Glossy fliers with the same messages fill the mailboxes of women in Florida,
Virginia and other states.
Countering that effort, McCain rolled out his own radio ad aimed at sending a
message that he's not as far right on abortion as Obama makes him seem —
though he never mentions that procedure.
Instead, McCain's commercial focused on stem cell research and said he will
invest more money in research to prevent disease and find medical
breakthroughs to "help free families from the fear and devastation of
illness."
Like Obama, McCain backs relaxing federal restrictions on financing of
embryonic stem cell research while Palin — along with many
ultraconservatives in the GOP — opposes that method because human embryos
are destroyed. All three support research on adult stem cells.
McCain opposes abortion rights except when the life of the mother is in
danger and, unlike Palin, in cases of rape or incest. He has voted for
abortion restrictions permissible under Roe v. Wade and has said the 1973
decision that guaranteed abortion rights should be overturned, leaving states
to decide. Advisers say he would not seek a constitutional amendment banning
abortion, although he has expressed support for such a measure in the past
even while saying he doubts one is likely.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26771725/
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