" (Abortion-Right or Wrong, Certain Things are True 16) Opposing this position is the pro-choice stance, which stresses the woman's right to choose to continue or terminate a pregnancy. Pro-choice supporters also argue that legal abortion is safer than illegal abortion and relieves the psychological and social problems associated with bearing an unwanted child. Both sides have supported reasons for backing up their beliefs on abortion and both parties hold a great deal of power with the political powers in this nation because of their high numbers of voters. So here stand not only two opposite political parties" views but also many different candidates and their personal and philosophical beliefs.
The Democratic Party has become titled the pro-choice party although there are still candidates that do not follow this belief and opinion. The Clinton Administration was the first Administration clearly committed to abortion. In various interviews Clinton acknowledged that it was their attention to include abortion under the category of "services for pregnant woman" in his health care reform program. Although the controversy reared its head when Henry Foster, President Clinton's unconfirmed nominee for Surgeon General, has said, "I abhor abortions." His wife Hillary Clinton went even farther by appealing to an audience by characterizing abortion as "wrong"(On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position 2) The problem seems that the party protects the right of abortion simply because of the support rather than moral or ethical reasoning. Since 1972 pro-choice feminists have become increasingly important players in the Democratic Party councils. In 1976 these abortion lobbies got the Democratic platform to oppose a constitutional amendment banning abortion, since this time they have demanded public funding of abortion and special federal protection of abortion clinics. It seems that no matter the true opinion of a democratic candidate, they must appear to back abortion and the right to choose, if they truly have any serious ambitions for national politics.
