Obama/Biden

McCain/Palin

Roe v. Wade

• Supports women's right to choose
• Supports Roe v. Wade and pro-choice judges

Roe v. Wade

• Opposes women's right to choose
• Pledges to appoint judges to overturn Roe v. Wade
• Palin opposes legal abortion even in cases of rape and incest. 

Family Planning & Abortion Voting Record

• Obama has a 100% rating from NARAL and PPFA.

Family Planning & Abortion Voting Record

• McCain has a 0% rating from NARAL and PPFA.

Sex Education

• Support comprehensive “age appropriate sex education.”
• Opposes abstinence only sex education.

Sex Education

• Oppose comprehensive “age appropriate sex education.”
• Support abstinence only sex education.

Birth Control Insurance Discrimination

• Cosponsored legislation to end discrimination by insurance companies that are allowed to exclude coverage for birth control even though they cover erectile dysfunction medication.

Birth Control Insurance Discrimination

• McCain has ducked questions on contraceptive insurance discrimination as recently as July 2008.

Family Planning Funding

• Support and voted to fund family planning, including the Title X program.
• Title X is only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services such as access to contraceptive services, supplies and information

Family Planning Funding

• Voted to terminate the Title X program.

Global Gag Rule

• Opposes and voted against Global Gag Rule
• Pledges to repeal by executive order the "Bush" Global Gag Rule, which denies international family planning aid to any family planning program in developing nations that use their money to counsel on, make referrals for, or try to change laws to permit abortion.

Global Gag Rule

• Supports and voted for Global Gag Rule.
• Plans to maintain the Global Gag Rule.
• Voted for a domestic gag rule.