The Argus Leader's Terry Woster has an article in today's edition headlined "Letter provokes abortion dispute." The article is about the fact that Senator Daschle sent out a mass fundraising e-mail on behalf of NARAL in the last few days before the 2002 election. Below is a screen capture of that e-mail which I took from the lower portion of this webpage:
This e-mail is the starkest evidence there is that Daschle is misleading people when he says he's "opposed to abortion." As DVT points out, Daschle himself says in his NARAL e-mail that "As the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, I’ve stood up for a woman’s right to choose, and the pro-choice leadership of the Senate has made a difference by safeguarding women’s rights from the anti-choice agenda of the Bush administration."
Yet the AL article only adds to Senator Daschle's attempts at muddling the meaning of his NARAL e-mail. First, there's the subtitle to the story, which reads "Daschle pro-choice, Thune says." Clearly, it's not Thune saying Daschle is pro-choice, it's Daschle himself saying it in his NARAL e-mail, as DVT also points out. Then there's the content of the article. Relevant excerpt:
"I sent an e-mail urging support for Senator Carnahan, whose husband had died in a plane crash,'' he said in an interview. "This was a fund-raising letter that was meant to help her campaign.''
What are you going to believe? What Daschle says or your own eyes? Daschle's NARAL e-mail requests its readers to "give to NARAL" no less than FIVE times. The truth is that this e-mail was for both a colleague and a cause.
Daschle's NARAL e-mail illustrates with stunning clarity Daschle's true position on the issue of abortion. Today's report in the AL subtracts from the clarity of Daschle's NARAL e-mail.
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