“We can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women. The fact is that the best way to reduce the number of abortions is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place.”

Hillary seems to be changing her views on abortion to represent a less liberal stance. This could be because of changes in her understanding of appropriate abortion legislation, but at her age that’s unlikely. Much more likely is that Hillary is vying for a win in the 2008 election and understands her greatest threat to be seeming ‘too liberal’ by the right.

Some writers are already discussing that she may be mistaken to think that she won’t be challenged from the left considering Howard Dean and various grassroots campaigns are in control of the Democratic National Committee.