The following statement may be attributed to Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice.
At the outset of the debate over healthcare reform, leaders in the Democratic Party made a number of promises to the American people.
President Obama told us that he was "not restricting women's insurance choices," and promised that "if you're happy and satisfied with the insurance that you have, it's not going to change."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "There is no change in the access to abortion, no more, no less. It is abortion neutral."
President Obama said, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
Ever since the election, the Democratic Party has said that it would rely on evidence-based policies to reduce the need for abortion and the incidence of sexually transmitted infections. In yet another broken promise, this time to America's youth, the Democrats have agreed to refund abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education policies. The party leadership caved to pressure from the conservatives within its own ranks in giving taxpayer money to programs that do not work.