Political expediency at it's finest:
Tim Kaine, the Virginia governor and President Barack Obama's hand-picked choice as the head of the Democratic National Committee, infuriated abortion-rights groups Monday by signing legislation that gives abortion foes a long-sought victory.Now Democrats--especially pro-abortion Democrats--will forgive many things: Lying to them about reducing troops in Iraq, failing to take any action on the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and the myriad other white lies they were told during the election but were spurned on after the Obama win. One of those things is not abortion.
Kaine brushed off intense lobbying by abortion rights supporters in Richmond to sign a bill that allows Virginia motorists to advertise their anti-abortion views by sporting "Choose Life" specialty license plates.
The revenue from the specialty plates would go to crisis-pregnancy centers, which many abortion-rights backers believe proslyetize against abortion and encourage women to keep unwanted children.
If Kaine were merely the governor of the Old Dominion, the move might have been less notable. Kaine—a Catholic who says he is personally opposed to abortion but pledged to leave the right to choose intact—won office in Virginia partly by seeking to reassure social conservatives.
The abortion debate has many little nuances and an even greater amount of battles and skirmishes--every one has significance to both sides. By signing this legislation, Kaine is now engulfed and will be a target for the Planned Parenthood and NOW crowd. They will not abide the leader of the national party to jilt them on this and will be vocal at every opportunity.
Yes, to the rest of the country not ensconced in the minutiae of the debate it may seem insignificant but to the abortion industry (yes, industry) it is as big a concern as removing tariffs in trade from a competing country or cutting subsidies to agriculture. We're talking ideology and money and they won't let this go easily.
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