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Gen. Wesley Clark on abortion:

McQuaid: Let’s take an issue. Abortion. Are there any limits on it in your mind?

Clark: I don’t think you should get the law involved in abortion—

McQuaid: At all?

Clark: Nope.

McQuaid: At all?

Clark: It’s between a woman, her doctor, her friends and her family.

McQuaid: Late term abortion? No limits?

Clark: Nope.

McQuaid: Anything up to delivery?

Clark: I say that it’s up to the woman and her doctor, her conscience, and law — not the law. You don’t put the law in there.

For the record, as the entire article makes clear Clark was not actually sanctioning abortion to the point of birth, he was merely(!) refusing to commit himself.

But.

Let's get one thing straight, and I will use tiny words for those like General Clark, whose consciences are so seared that they are not willing to acknowledge the bloody obvious: There is no difference between a newborn child, and one about to be born.

And if he cannot admit that, he does not have the moral standing to be dogcatcher, must less President of the United States.

Clark is a political novice—no other Democratic candidate would dare to voice his opinion on infanticide with so little, uh, nuance. But make no mistake: whatever they might proclaim on the subject—whatever horseshit they might utter about their desire to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare”—Clark's stance is shared by all: not even Holy Joe Lieberman could bring himself to vote for the partial-birth abortion ban.

Not that I expect any major Democratic candidate to renounce abortion. But what is astonishing is the unblinking and perverse zeal for third trimester termination.

As Peggy Noonan sums it: “Abortion is now the glue that holds the Democratic Party together.”

If you habitually vote Democratic, do bear that in mind.

UPDATE: Opinion Journal has more on Democrats, judges, and abortion here.