It appears that last night in Lawrenceville he endorsed Bob Casey's campaign. I was not there, but the media indidcates that he did.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05201/540556.stm"With an enthusiastic endorsement of Casey, Dean drew sustained applause from the crowd of several hundred at the Church Brew Works in Lawrenceville.""I have an awful lot of respect for pro-life Democrats," Dean said. "Pro-life Democrats care about the lives of children after they are born as well as before."
I haven't really minded the way he has been speaking of abortion, I understand what he is saying. However, Bob Casey is far more than pro-life. Here we have been so concerned about the judges Bush will get to appoint, but yet our own Democratic leaders are endorsing someone who is anti-choice.
Casey is not just against a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, he is against more than that.
He is against the funding of stem-cell research beyond 2001 levels, and he supports the rights of pharmacists to not prescribe the morning-after pill.Casey's own words:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11420780.htmSNIP..."What I've said in the last month and what I've said in the last 10 years makes it very clear that I'm pro-life, and I always will be," Casey said.
Casey said he would, as a senator, avoid a litmus test on any issue in voting on judicial nominees. He would oppose expanding federally supported embryonic stem-cell research beyond 2001 levels. He would not require pharmacists to go against personal beliefs and fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptives, which prevent a fertilized egg from implanting.."Edit to put in italics:
By being anti-abortion and anti-contraceptive, Casey is in effect dooming a woman to carry full term....even in cases of rape. Howard Dean has been very clear on what he stands for, and I do not like his selling out his beliefs in order to win. Here we are at the crossroads for women's rights, and I don't think we should let him or anyone else rationalize anti-choice views.
I am one of his biggest advocates, but I can not agree with his supporting an anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, anti-contraceptive candidate in the Democratic party.
I can not believe he did this comfortably, and it must have tweaked his conscience to do so.