My (supposedly anti-abortion) sister runs an adoption service agency

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. It's a complaint about critisism of Tim Kain's prior record in Virginia

On at least one other thread I know of, one I started, this story was linked to:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/26/why-tim-kaine-can-oppose-abortion-and-still-run-with-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=.f57abf8cbf06

The "money quotes" from that article concerned Kaine' PAST record in Virginia:

"Eleven years ago, as he ran for governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine made clear his stance on abortion: “I have a faith-based opposition,” he wrote on his campaign’s website. “I will work in good faith to reduce abortions.”

Kaine went on to laud adoption as the best solution to an unwanted pregnancy. He promoted abstinence-only sex education (and later slashed funding to the program, citing research that found it wasn’t effective). He authorized the sale of “Choose Life” license plates to fund religious counseling clinics that discouraged abortion. He backed Virginia’s “informed consent” law, which requires women seeking the procedure to undergo medically unnecessary ultrasounds."

My own reply to the person who posted that link at the time was:

"Out of the examples listed in those paragraphs this is the one that bothers me:

"He backed Virginia’s “informed consent” law, which requires women seeking the procedure to undergo medically unnecessary ultrasounds."

I accept that he has his own moral views and I don't so much mind those who work to make adoption work as a choice. But authorizing “Choose Life” license plates to fund religious counseling clinics that discouraged abortion." is also problematic to me. In general though I accept the word of those who say he has voted to support a woman's right to choose."


In, hindsight I regret that I did not clarify more what I meant when I wrote: "I don't so much mind those who work to make adoption work..." Clearly I, at least, was not attacking those who do. My slight ambivalence (I don't so much mind ) comes only from the fact that many of those who do that combine it with religious instruction and guidance against abortion. The news story gives the impression that such was the case in this instance.