Posted on 02/14/2009 12:38:21 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two pro-abortion Republican groups have announced a newly-formed partnership designed to weaken the long-standing pro-life platform the GOP maintains. The Republican Majority for Choice and the WISH List (Women in the Senate and House) hope to team up to drag the party to the left.
Colleen Parro, the head of the Republican National Coalition for Life tells LifeNews.com about the new effort.
"Feeling scorned after eighteen years of trying and failing to remove the pro-life language from the Republican national platform, and with the last three Republican presidential administrations [taking a pro-life stance], pro-choice Republican women are trying to make a come-back," Parro said.
The two pro-abortion groups say they plan to “continue the battle for personal freedoms and choice in the GOP.”
Parro says that means they favor "getting rid of the pro-life plank and electing abortion-friendly candidates to office."
Last summer, the Republican Party's platform committee put together a new pro-life party platform that contains some of the strongest language ever condemning abortion and supporting legal protections for unborn children.
It stood in stark contrast to the pro-abortion plank Democrats approved at the behest of President Barack Obama.
The platform draws on the nation's founding documents as expressing the earliest support for human life but backs a Constitutional amendment to make those protections clear.
"Faithful to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence, we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed," the final GOP platform draft says.
"We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children," it added.
During the primary election campaign, exit polling data showed Republicans in most states took a pro-life position by wanting all or most abortions illegal.
Some 19 of 24 states with publicly-available data showed pro-life Republican majorities.
Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, who is pro-life, was recently elected as the new chairman of the Republican Party.
Parro says that means they favor "getting rid of the pro-life plank and electing abortion-friendly candidates to office."
Yeah, well I favor throwing your asses out of the GOP.
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Yeah why don’t they just register as Democrats if they want to kill babies.
couldn’t agree more . . . throw the witches out of the GOP
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Go to hell RINOS.
May they fail miserably..
Throw them out. Now.
To hell with them.
Of all the ideals the GOP stands for, I consider the pro-life issues to be the greatest foundation on which we stand. Those who don’t agree really should find another party instead of trying to “fix” this one.
And why are these people Republicans again? Pro-Life is part of the soul of the GOP, and that won’t change! The GOP IS a pro-life party!
Apparently, those RINOs are having a very difficult time admitting that, deep down inside, they are DEMOCRATS!!!! They need to all be thrown out of the party (and take Snowe, Collins and Specter with you, please!)!
Somebody had better throw them out - the libs are going to use this to try to further divide the GOP. I must admit, McCain et al rendered me much less-enthusiastic about the party, but this would be a bigger disaster. (I voted for Sarah and against His Zeroness, but not for Mc.)
>>>>>"... electing abortion-friendly candidates to office."
Sounds like a strategy Michael Steele supports.
Yep.
I go back and forth on a daily basis trying to decide whether the GOP is worth saving or if conservatives should just leave. The more I read about how the GOP was formed by anti-slavery Whigs and how it became the dominant political party in just over a decade, the more I think it's time for conservatives to just leave.
How do they call themselves a "majority"?
According to OpenSecrets, the PAC takes in about $100,000 a year from about 20 people and
hands it out to the likes of Specter, Collins, Shays, and a dozen other less known RINOs.
This is nothing more than another Straw Man or Red Herring of the Left. The Left is bent on destroying the Republican Party, and this is another tool they hope to use. It will go nowhere
If you are feeling “scorned” as republicans, why not join a party in which you will be loved and appreciated? Or is it just more fun to try to destroy the republican party!
What are their numbers? Even in the northeast , they have virtually no influence. I think they can be ignored (if they “exist” at all)
What a dumbass name. Too many oxymorons.
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