The Democrats are using
The Democrats are using abortion scare tactics to trick "liberals" into voting for Gore instead of Nader, claiming that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush, and that Bush is far worse than Gore when it comes to the abortion issue.
Nader/LaDuke are the only pro-choice candidates. They have endorsed NOW's platform and Nader has supported ERA since back in the day.
The Democrats, especially under Clinton/Gore aren't at all impressive. In 1976, Gore voted for the restrictive Hyde Amendment which denied Medicaid funds for abortion, affecting mostly poor women. From 1977 to 1984, he voted pro-life 84% of the time, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In 1992, he said that he regarded abortion as the taking of "innocent human life," and in 1993, the Clinton/Gore administration wouldn't even pass the measly Freedom Of Choice Act, even with a Democratic majority in Congess.
If you're worried about future Supreme Court appointees, read Michael Moore's "Ain't Fallin' For That One Again" and Barbara Ehrenreich's story for The Nation. As Moore points out, the Republican-appointed justices have upheld Roe v. Wade for the past 27 years. In fact, it was the Kennedy-appointed democrat Justice Byron White who wrote a dissenting opinion that claimed the decision
"values the convenience, whim, or caprice of the putative mother more than the life or potential life of the fetus"
Read that again.
Abortion availability has decreased significantly under Clinton/Gore, and there's no sign that things would be any different under Gore. You can check the statistics on a state-by-state basis at the NARAL resources page or in this ACLU of Northern California report:
...more anti-choice legislation was enacted in 1999 than in any other year.[11] According to the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, "[w]omen seeking abortion in 2000 have fewer rights than their mothers held in 1973."[12] The number of abortion providers has also dropped--by nearly 15% between 1992 and 1996.[13] Only 14% of U.S. counties have an abortion provider, a 10% decrease since 1978.
This article by the ISO is really good, but only touches on abortion briefly.
A vote for Gore is a vote for Bush. A vote for Bush is a vote for Gore. A vote for either is a vote against choice.