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Content: Recently, even Republican political leaders have begun voicing their concern over the military involvement in Iraq. Currently, Democrats lack a cohesive and unitive stance on the war. While certain key Democrats like John Kerry propose a timetable for the removal of the troops, others support the president in the matter, most noteably Senator Joe Lieberman. Most, however, call for a plan that will see the gradual reduction of troops while preventing chaos that would ensue upon a hasty retreat of US troops. Democratic presidential hopefuls Russ Feingold and Hillary Clinton both fall somewhere in between Kerry and Lieberman, with Feingold leaning toward Kerry's plan of a planned removal of troops, but with a more flexible timetable, and Clinton seeking out a more moderate stance on the issue. The war in Iraq is arguably the most important issue to the Democrats in the upcoming mid-term elections, and will likely be just as important in two years in the 2008 presidential elections. Reproductive rights
The Democratic Party believes that all women should have access to birth control, and supports public funding of contraception for poor women. The Democratic Party, in its platform in 2000 and 2004, called for abortion to be "safe, legal and rare"—namely, keeping it legal by rejecting laws that allow governmental interference in abortion decisions, and reducing the number of abortions by promoting both knowledge of reproduction and contraception, and incentives for adoption. The Democratic Party opposes attempts to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade which recognized abortion as a right. As a matter of the right to privacy and of gender equality, many Democrats believe all women should have the ability to choose without governmental interference.