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Just refer to the exchange form the 2bd debate;
KERRY: Well, again, the president just said, categorically, my opponent is against this, my opponent is against that. You know, it's just not that simple. No, I'm not.
I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.
Secondly, with respect to parental notification, I'm not going to require a 16-or 17-year-old kid who's been raped by her father and who's pregnant to have to notify her father. So you got to have a judicial intervention. And because they didn't have a judicial intervention where she could go somewhere and get help, I voted against it. It's never quite as simple as the president wants you to believe.
GIBSON: And 30 seconds, Mr. President.
BUSH: Well, it's pretty simple when they say: Are you for a ban on partial birth abortion? Yes or no?
So there you have it, given the choice of using tax dollars to pay for an abortion for a 16 year old who was raped by her father, bush* would vote to make abortion illegal.
Read the entire exchange, bush* loves life so much he would prefer a mother die if it means a safe medical procedure would harm a fetus regardless of it's gestational status - at least where federal tax dollars are concerned. transcript from; www.debates.org/pages/trans2004c.html
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