{"id":87370,"date":"2016-02-10T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=87370"},"modified":"2016-02-10T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:52:09","slug":"naral-wants-abortion-questions-thursday-democrat-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-wants-abortion-questions-thursday-democrat-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"NARAL wants abortion questions at Thursday Democrat debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a rare display of agreement with pro-lifers, NARAL Pro-Choice America is <a href=\"http:\/\/actnow.prochoiceamerica.org\/sign\/150208_askaboutabortion\/#.VrpMrxjAKRs\">upset<\/a> that abortion has not been given its due attention over the course of the past Democratic presidential primary debates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reproductive freedom is at serious risk in this country. But still, not a single question about abortion rights has been asked at ANY of the five Democratic debates. Not one,&#8221; the organization laments in a new email to members. To rectify the situation, they are circulating a <a href=\"http:\/\/actnow.prochoiceamerica.org\/sign\/150208_askaboutabortion\/#.VrpMrxjAKRs\">petition<\/a> to &#8220;PBS NewsHour\u2019s Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff [who] will make up the first all-woman moderating team of any debate&#8221; this Thursday night, demanding that they &#8220;ask a question about abortion access and reproductive freedom at the Democratic debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While NARAL frames their objection around the importance of getting presidential contenders to commit to protecting abortion, it echoes objections from the other side that pro-abortion candidates are not asked to explain the extremes of their position. Recently, the Washington Post&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/02\/08\/the-media-presses-republicans-on-abortion-exceptions-it-should-press-democrats-on-abortion-limits-too\/\">Callum Borchers<\/a> and the Washington Examiner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/clinton-sanders-allowed-to-dodge-abortion-in-debates\/article\/2582805?custom_click=rss\">T. Becket Adams<\/a> have expressed agreement with Republican candidate Marco Rubio&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news\/rubio-right-call-hillary-clinton-pro-abortion-even-due-date\/\">complaint<\/a> that the media has not asked Clinton to explain her support for partial-birth abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidates have not been specifically asked about abortion, but both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee (who has since dropped out) <a href=\"\/news\/hillary-clinton-lincoln-chafee-push-abortion-democrat-cnn-debate\/\">proactively affirmed<\/a> their pro-abortion stances during the first debate on CNN in October. The two remaining candidates, Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, <a href=\"\/news\/sanders-hits-establishment-planned-parenthood-endorsing-clinton\/\">both hold<\/a> 100% pro-abortion voting records.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Live Action <a href=\"\/news\/abortion-neglected-cnbc-gop-debate-lets-something\/\">has also criticized<\/a> a lack of abortion attention in Republican debates, such as the October CNBC debate in which no questions were asked about the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare display of agreement with pro-lifers, NARAL Pro-Choice America is upset that abortion has not been given its due attention over the course of the past Democratic presidential primary debates. &#8220;Reproductive freedom is at serious risk in this country. 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