Click here. HT: The Family Research Council, which offered the following summary of the Wall Street Journal article:
Some hidden stories behind the two major political parties' platforms
are slowly emerging on the eve of the national conventions. On the
Democratic side, much attention has been paid to the new abortion
language that calls for a reduction in the "need" for abortions and
more support for
women who want to carry their pregnancies to term. A detailed story in The Wall Street Journal OnlineJournal shows how difficult it was for
Democrats to reach even that limited result. The Obama campaign's
strategy was to keep the party's pro-abortion interest groups and its
small
evangelical contingent apart: they never met face-to-face as the
platform plank was written. Platform director Michael Yaki also
revealed that the
writers "deliberately steered the language [away] from having any
morality" as that would have prevented compromise. The party
evangelicals,
including Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis, did not "push hard for legal
restrictions, including partial-birth abortions," the
reports. The result was a document that does not even ask for a
reduction in the number of abortions, as the pro-aborts insisted this
would suggest there was
something immoral about the practice.