On January 20, 2004 I appeared on The O’Reilly Factor. You can read a partial transcript here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110200,00.html

I am passing on the following announcement from the Kaiser Family Founadtion.
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On Friday Jan 23, 2004, I spoke at the 31st anniversary celebration of Roe v. Wade given by the Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona. The lunch at the Hilton at Squaw Peak had 600 in attendance and people were being turned away. Governor Napolitano appeared and gave the best speech I have ever heard by a politician–it lasted less than 30 seconds! I’ll vote for her anytime!
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In response to Robyn E. Blumner’s column, Reproductive Rights Are for Men Too, in the St. Petersburg Times of Jan 11, 2004 (http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/11/Columns/Reproductive_rights_a.shtml) I sent the following letter to the editor, as yet unpublished.
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Did you notice that the President did not mention the word “abortion” last night in the State of the Union Address (link in previous blog entry)? Or was I napping? Or maybe recovering from my appearance on The O’Reilly Factor a half hour earlier?
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The President in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening January 20, 2004 proposed a doubling of Federal funding for abstinence programs.
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Less than a week after the State of Minnesota released a report stating that its abstinence-only sex education program was not effective in preventing or delaying teenage sexual activity, the Wake County North Carolina school board forged ahead regardless and on January 6, 2004 approved by a 5-3 vote an abstinence-only sex education curriculum for the county’s schools. There are two possibilities: Wake County was either uninformed of the Minnesota report or it deliberately ignored it. “Just Say No” is now the law in Wake County schools.
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Mr. DiStaso–thank you for your reply. I take it that we agree that under Roe the state may not ban abortions in the second trimester, it can only regulate them for maternal health reasons. Your column indicated otherwise.

I have also sent this to Lieberman’s staff.

My only comments are these:

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