Reply #94: That only really works if...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

....you consider the area of womens' rights to encompass only the issue of abortion rights and abortion rights alone. And that's just not the case. Women's issues encompass a broad spectrum of issues and legislation, most of which do not deal with the issue of abortion. (Take, just for example, the recent Lilly Ledbetter Act.) And I suspect--and a visit to www.ontheissues.org would confirm this--that a vast majority of those representatives I listed would be highly supportive of women's issues as a whole. Some of them may have actually voted with the Democratic majority on other abortion related issues, and that the Stupak amendment was the exception, not the rule.

But their vote concerning a single issue should not be reason alone for DUers to break out the pitchforks and torches.