We can also see that Senator John Kerry has no genuine interest in protecting women's reproductive rights. Why the silence from the Kerry camp, after the promise that he will take the fight to the Republicans on issues like these?

All Kerry had to do to get this language out of the damn bill was step up to the microphones. Apparently he was too busy planning the launch of his next exploratory committee.

But again, it is going to take something as dire as women losing their reproductive rights in this country to galvanize the population. Maybe the women in this country deserve to have Roe v Wade overturned on them, so pathetic has their response been over the abortion rights issue.

And BTW, this tactic is nothing new. Under Clinton, the Congress successfully got through a bill that prohibits federal funding of abortions for poor women around the world. So I fault both the Republican party and the Democratic party for the erosion on abortion rights, birth control, etc. The Republicans couldn't ram this sort of shit through without Democratic cooperation.