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Dean: We were framed

Democratic chairman Howard Dean said in a Minnesota visit that while the party is right to defend a woman's right to have an abortion, it is wrong to defend the procedure as a moral issue.

Dean: “I don't know anyone in America who's pro-abortion. If I could strike the words ‘choice' and ‘abortion' out of the lexicon of our party, I would. The debate and the difference between the parties is, we believe a woman has a right to make up her own mind about her health care, and they (Republicans) believe that Tom DeLay and the boys in Congress should be making up that woman's mind.”

More: “The person who frames the issues … wins the debate, and they (Republicans) have been kicking our butt for a long time because we have not framed the issues ourselves.”

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