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Senate Dems to pursue new strategy on abortion
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 05, 2006 12:43pm |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Media | Website - The Hill |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 5, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Senate Democratic leadership says it has found a wedge issue to strengthen the party’s position on abortion rights, which top strategists think has become a liability in recent years.
The wedge is legislation expanding access to contraceptives and sex education, which polls show a majority of Americans support but which Democrats are betting will be difficult for social conservatives in the Republican base to accept.
“The issue of abortion is very different from the issue of prevention, access to birth control and access to comprehensive sex education,” said Anna Greenberg, a pollster for Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner, which works for the abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America. “I think that Senator Reid’s prevention-first agenda is not just smart in policy terms but smart in political terms because there is overwhelming support in the public for access to birth control and comprehensive sex education. People want women to be able to prevent unwanted pregnancies.”
“It’s 3-to-1 in favor of it. Even pro-life voters support it,” Lake said. “It has the potential to be both a wedge and a turnout issue post-Alito. It shows how extreme a faction [within] the Republican Party is. |
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