Obama still apologizing for his abortion stand, not the fundy extremist on the other ticket

Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, was also questioned about his views, on the ABC News program “This Week.” Last month, in an interview with the Rev. Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church in California, Mr. Obama skirted a question about when life begins, saying that determining such a thing was “above my pay grade.” On ABC on Sunday, Mr. Obama characterized his response then as a little “too flip,” adding, “All I meant to communicate was that I don’t presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions.

“What I do know is that abortion is a moral issue,” Mr. Obama continued, “that it’s one that families struggle with all the time, and that in wrestling with those issues, I don’t think that the government criminalizing the choices that families make is the best answer for reducing abortions. I think the better answer — and this was reflected in the Democratic platform — is to figure out, how do we make sure that young mothers, or women who have a pregnancy that’s unexpected or difficult, have the kind of support they need to make a whole range of choices, including adoption and keeping the child.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/us/politics/08campaign.html