Democrat Chairman: Every Democrat Should Support Abortion Rights
A mayoral race in Omaha has touched off a fierce debate within the national Democratic Party, because their candidate, Heath Mello, supported a tepid pro-life bill in the past. That makes him unacceptable to Thomas Perez (shown), the national chairman of the Democratic Party.
“Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health,” Perez said in a statement last Friday quoted by the Huffington Post and other media. “That is non-negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.” (Emphasis added.)
Amazingly, what the bill that Mello supported would do is require doctors by law to inform women where they can receive ultrasounds before obtaining an abortion. Not that women would have to receive the ultrasound first, but apparently that is “non-negotiable” for the leader of the national Democratic Party. And Perez was...