Reproductive Rights and the Obama Transition

I was going to write something snarky about fetus fetishists being given their marching orders when I saw this headline, 'Pro-Abortion Groups Issue 55-Page Marching Orders for Barack Obama Admin', at Life Shite.

But the story is much more interesting, encompassing government transparency, agenda-setting, and public policy debate.

A pro-choice coalition submitted a reproductive rights wish-list to the Obama transition team. Apparently, they weren't expecting it to be made public, but it has been at Obama's transition website.

You can download the document and comment on it here.

The LifeShite piece had a link to it, obviously expecting the flying monkeys to get busy frothing and shrieeeking there in the comments. Thus, 'marching orders' in its own title was a tad, um, you know, the usual for the lying liars.

There are now over 125 comments, and mirabile dictu, not many of them are from frothers.

And there is an interesting piece about the release of the wish-list and the benefits (or not) of public consultation like this at RH Reality Check.

Government transparency. Public consultation. Wow. We need to get ourselves some of that up here.

UPDATE: That link to the Reproductive Rights page at change.gov now seems to be to an older version. And trying the link at RH Reality Check gives an error message. Hmmmm. I'll check back later.

UPDATE 2: I think the link is correct now.