Folks with pro-choice t-shirts not let in to see McCain

by politicsmatters, Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 12:10:18 PM EST

For anyone who has ANY doubt about McCain's position on abortion, check this out.

He and his campaign are so anti-choice -- and so want to impress the Republican base that he has no chance of changing his lifetime position on abortion and reproductive rights -- that they wouldn't let people with pro-choice t-shirts into a campaign event.

Heather Brewer, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico, said today that three pro-choice New Mexicans wearing NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico T-shirts were denied access to Sen. John McCainâ?Ts town hall meeting at the Hotel Albuquerque on Tuesday even though they had tickets to the event.

"Our folks had tickets, followed the rules and were waiting in line just like everyone else," Brewer said. "I can only assume that it was their NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico T-shirts that inspired security to single them out from the hundreds of other people there and to threaten them with arrest. If Sen. McCain has a problem with women accessing birth control, he should state that publicly. His voting record makes it clear that he does not support access to birth control, so why is he ducking the issue at his own town hall meeting?"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0 708/Naral_Prochoice_tshirtwearers_barred _from_McCain_event.html

Thanks for making it clear, McCain --

You're going to follow Bush in trying to keep out folks who don't agree with you.

You're so committed to curtailing reproductive rights that you don't want people with pro-choice t-shirts at your events.

We got a choice, people -- between a candidate with a zero percent rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood and one with a 100% lifetime rating.

Keep your eyes on the prize - and work your hearts out to put a Democratic, pro-choice person in the White House.




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Re: Folks with pro-choice t-shirts (2.00 / 5)

He really is Bush Season III.

McSame as it ever was...
McSame as it ever was...


by Kysen on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 12:20:50 PM EST

I am beyond the age (2.00 / 2)

where I will ever need to make a choice in this area, but I don't think I will ever be too old to feel that it is a matter of individual choice and it is a woman's right to control her own body.

That McCain thinks we can be marginalized or chased from the table simply shows, once again, how out of touch with Americans he is.

I wonder what would have happened if the t-shirts had been in favor of Viagra instead of choice...


by Susan from 29 on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 12:54:12 PM EST

No one has a doubt (none / 0)


   on McCain's abortion position, except perhaps those damned idiots at PUMA.

  For what it's worth, if i were running for President, and I was at event paid for by campaign dollars (as opposed to tax dollars like some of the Bush events), I wouldn't want pro-life protestors causing a scene either.

  Can't really blame McCain for that. But you're right, if there are any idiots out there who still believe McCain is better than Obama on choice, this should prove that he's not.

  But I can't fault McCain for wanting to keep them out.


by southernman on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 02:47:16 PM EST

Re: No one has a doubt (none / 0)

Here's an ass-kicking comment on McCain, reproductive rights, and PUMA types - from The Nation's Katha Pollitt:

"Are there feminist Hillary supporters who hate Obama so much they'll vote for McCain just to show the Democratic Party how ticked off they are? Yes, and I get e-mails from all five of them. Seriously, I'm sure there are female Hillary Clinton voters who will go for John McCain in the general election, but I don't think too many of them will be feminists. Because to vote for McCain, a feminist would have to be insane. Let me rephrase that: she would have to believe that the chief--indeed the only--goal of the women's movement is to elect Clinton, not to promote women's rights. A vote for McCain would be the ultimate face-spiting nose-cutoff. Take that, women's equality!"

"How antichoice is John McCain? Let's look at his record. In his four years in the House, from 1983 to 1986, he cast eleven votes on reproductive issues. Ten were antichoice. Of 119 such votes in the Senate, 115 were antichoice, including votes for the ban on so-called partial-birth abortions and for the "gag rule," which refuses funds to clinics abroad that so much as mention abortion. In 1999, the year he said he opposed repeal of Roe on health grounds, he voted against a bill that would have permitted servicewomen overseas, where safe, legal abortion is often unavailable, to pay out of their own pockets for abortions in military hospitals.

His record on contraception and sex education is just as bad. He voted against a 2005 budget amendment, sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton, that would have allotted $100 million to reduce teen pregnancy by means of education and birth control. He voted to require parental consent for birth control for teenage girls and to abolish Title X, which funds birth control and gynecological care for the poor. He voted against requiring insurance companies to pay for prescription contraception, when they pay for other prescription drugs--like, um, Viagra."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/po llitt


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by politicsmatters on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 04:49:15 PM EST
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Re: Folks with pro-choice t-shirts not let in to s (none / 0)

FYI, a google search for "McBush" now yields 380,000 hits, and searching for "McSame" gets 437,000.

Everything that McCain does that reminds people of Bush is just another nail in the coffin of his campaign.


by Skaje on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 04:13:39 PM EST


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