Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue's campaign said she is strongly pro-choice.
In response to a widely circulated e-mail from a staffer for state Treasurer Richard Moore this morning, a spokesman for Perdue's gubernatorial campaign said her record is strong, Rob Christensen reports.
"It's just another desperate distortion from the same campaign that attacked the teachers last week,” said David Kochman, Perdue's spokesman. "Beverly Perdue is strongly pro-choice. That's why this year, she’s already been endorsed by the Women's Campaign Forum and in previous campaigns by groups such as NARAL."
"Her position has developed over the years just as Richard Moore's positions have on so many other issues," Kochman said. "But she is the pro-choice candidate in the race."
Moore has also been inconsistent. In a candidate survey by the same group, Project Vote Smart, when Moore was running for Congress in 1994, he said he would not support an increase in the minimum wage. He is now campaigning on increasing the mimimum wage.
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The 2006 North Carolina Democratic Party platform states: "We believe that a woman's decisions regarding pregnancy should be her own choice and not that of the government."
The 2004 US Democratic Party platform states abortions should be "safe, legal, and rare". This has been interpreted to mean that "a woman should have the ability to choose without government interference".
The Democratic platform sounds much like the position you advocate.
Contrast this with the 2007 North Carolina Republican party platform which states: "We urge the North Carolina General Assembly to pass state lwgislation prohibiting this [partial birth abortion] procedure". As you can see it is the Republican Party's position that government should involve itself in abortion decisions.