All the way back in 2006, when Sarah Palin was running for governor way up there in Alaska, she partook in a gubernatorial debate. During said debate, the three participants were questioned about abortion, and how they would respond were their daughters to be raped and subsequently find themselves pregnant. The answers given by Palin's two opponents, both Democrats, were typical, run-of-the-mill pro-choice answers. But Palin, bless her little heart, declared that she would, even in this extreme circumstance, choose life.
(No mention, however, on what her then hypothetically raped, now actually knocked up, daughter might choose.)
John McCain, back in the day, was similarly questioned about his own daughter (though without, I think, the rape scenario). And his initial response was, "The final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel."
How, exactly, is this not pro-choice?*
People seem too often to forget, or ignore, the fact that being pro-choice is not all about being pro-abortion, but rather about championing a society in which we have the right, the opportunity,
to choose to have a child as well as to choose not to.
*One might be tempted to suggest that John "Straight-Talk" McCain was for choice before he was against it.
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