Editor's note: I posted this commentary not because I agree with Kennedy's views, but because abortion-on-demand is a hot button issue that requires that we look at it without labelling its opponents as "fringe right wing extremists" or fundamentalists or portraying pregnant women as being "punished with a baby" (Obama's own words). Mr. Obama is on record as supporting all reproductive rights to include partial birth abortion. - Roland)

To quote a friend of mine, "I fully support the right of ALL women to chose, including the unborn ones."

Obama's vote on this should haunt him. His reasoning for voting against it was alarmist in the extreme, and ridiculous for a "constitutional scholar." It is a prime example, though, of the DNC's caving in to rigid dogma on the issue of abortion. I'm sure as a rookie state legislator, he wanted to tow the party line. If this hurts him, so be it. Either his views really are disgusting, or he put little thought into his position and instead chose to let his party's platform think for him.