Letters to the Editor
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In the end, it doesn't really matter
Obama voted "present" instead of being a strong voice for reproductive rights. Clinton speaks a rhetoric of loss/sadness in one social setting, and a rhetoric of proudly supporting a woman's choice in another. Both are politicians, doing what politicians do: trying to play all sides to the maximum extent possible without losing their core constituents. In the end, it doesn't matter: both would put pro-reproductive rights judges into the federal judiciary and on the Supreme Court. It may frustrate those of us who believe that access to abortion is not only legally necessary, but also ethically necessary, to have a leader unwilling to simply stand up and treat reproductive rights as human rights. But in the end politically posturing doesn't matter much, what matters is what executive decisions Clinton or Obama makes in office, and both will further reproductive rights after an eight year siege.