Ready on Day One

Published: June 19, 2008, 11:50 am

Remember when Sen. Hillary Clinton regularly used that line for her campaign? Something you may not know is a promise Sen. Barack Obama has made about his first order of business as president. He made the promise to a choice crowd. …almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration. The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, Obama said in his July speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level. The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion. The 2007 version of FOCA proposed: It is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child, to terminate a

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