Dem Candidates Promise Taxpayer Funded Abortions

No surprise here - the top three Dem '08 candidates are all promising the abortion industry that they'll provide taxpayer funds to pay for the murderous procedures:

WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband's health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion.

Speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards before the family planning and abortion-rights group Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Edwards lauded her husband's health-care proposal as "a true universal health-care plan" that would cover "all reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination," referring to abortion.

Edwards was joined by Democratic candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at the group's political organizing conference in addressing issues at the core of the political clash between cultural liberals and conservatives, including abortion rights, access to contraception and sex education.

The recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding a federal ban on a late-term abortion procedure that opponents call "partial-birth abortion" has increased anxieties among reproductive-rights advocates over the future of constitutional protections for abortion rights. All three of the Democratic campaigns used the forum to signal their determination to appoint Supreme Court nominees who would uphold the 1973 Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling.

This is why elections matter. Chances are the next president will have at least two Supreme Court vacancies to deal with, and both of those will likely be replacements for liberal justices who are hanging on until after the election. Appointments by Clinton, Obama or Edwards wouldn't likely change the balance in the courts, but appointments by a Republican would further solidify a slim conservative majority.

We need judges who will interpret the law based on the Constitution, not judges who will rule based on some litmus test applied by the president.