Editing Tom Daschle (section)

===Views on abortion===
Daschle has a mixed voting record on [[Abortion-rights movements|abortion-related]] issues, which led the [[United States pro-choice movement|pro-choice]] organization [[NARAL]] to give him a 50% vote rating.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/17/harry_reid/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207084842/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/17/harry_reid/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 7, 2008|last=Green|first=Michael|title=Gambling on Harry Reid|date=November 17, 2004|work=Salon|access-date=November 20, 2008}}</ref>

In 1999 and 2003, Daschle voted in favor of the ban on [[partial-birth abortion]],<ref>{{USBill|106|S|1692|pipe=Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1999}}, [https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00340 Record Vote No: 340]</ref><ref>{{USBill|108|S|3|pipe=Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003}}, [https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00051 Record Vote No: 51]</ref> and supported legislation making it a crime to harm an unborn child when someone attacks a pregnant woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=B9F090EF-1321-AEAA-D3E4F888F0D20AC6|title=Daschle: Half Full or Half Empty?|last=Winters |first=Michael Sean|date=November 20, 2008 |publisher=America: The National Catholic Weekly|access-date=November 20, 2008}}</ref> Investigators into the [[2001 anthrax attacks]], which included Senator Daschle's Capitol Hill office, suspect that alleged anthrax mailer [[Bruce Ivins]] may have chosen to target Daschle over his views on abortion, although Ivins's lawyer disputed this alleged motive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93385756|title=Anthrax Suspect's Abortion Stance Eyed As Motive|last=Temple-Raston|first=Dina|date=August 7, 2008|publisher=National Public Radio|access-date=November 20, 2008}}</ref>

In 2003, Roman Catholic Bishop [[Robert James Carlson|Robert Carlson]] reportedly wrote to Daschle, criticizing his stance on abortion as conflicting with Roman Catholic teaching, and stating that Daschle should no longer identify himself as a Catholic.<ref name=weeklystandard>{{cite web |last1=Bottum |first1=J. |title=Tom Daschle's Duty to Be Morally Coherent |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/3814 |website=The Weekly Standard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305140313/http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/3814 |archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref>