Posted on 09/28/2016 2:00:17 PM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to statistics compiled by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) 94% of Republican Congressional representatives who identify as Catholic have a pro-life voting record, whereas only 1% of Democratic Catholics in Congress have such a record.
Of the 82 Catholic Republicans in Congress, 77 Republican representatives have voted consistently pro-life (from 68-100%) and 3 have a mixed record (34-67%). 1 has voted consistently pro-abortion (89%), Rep. Richard Hanna of New York. The representatives with mixed records are Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK) with a 63% pro-life record, Sen. Susan Collins (ME) with 40%, and Rep. John Katko (NY) with 60%.
Of the 86 Catholic Congressional Democrats, the sole representative with a pro-life voting record is Rep. Madeline Bordallo of Guam with 100%. Two have mixed records, Rep. Dan Lipinski (IL) with 63% and Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) with 56%. The remaining 83 Democratic Catholic Congressional representatives have a 66-100% pro-abortion record. These statistics are compiled by the NRLC based on their assessment of whether a given bill before the House is “pro-life” and the subsequent record of Congressional votes. Non-voting delegates from outlying territories are not counted. The current NRLC “scorecards” for House and Senate can be viewed here.
The current political climate in America is a volatile one for the pro-life cause. The ideological division displayed in the NRLC statistics makes passing pro-life legislation a difficult battle, at a time when more than twenty abortion-related bills are currently waiting on a vote in both the House and Senate. The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has left the conservative party in the Supreme Court weak, with a number of important pro-life cases under review; and above all, the looming presidential election will have a dramatic effect on pro-lifers’ political efforts, positive or negative.
Monday night saw the first of the presidential debates for the November 2016 election, between Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton has sided definitively with the Democratic Party on abortion, declaring it a “fundamental human right”. Meanwhile, Trump has emerged as a the pro-life candidate, at first confusing voters with the statement “Planned Parenthood does good things” but over the course of the campaign declaring that he would defund Planned Parenthood, that he opposed abortion, and most recently indicating his willingness to overturn Roe vs. Wade. The outcome of the election will have a major effect on the attempts of House and Senate pro-life blocs to push for reform.
You are right. Supporting abortion is one of the planks in the Democrat platform.
You can’t be pro-choice and Catholic, period!
Yes, I remember them. They just never appeared on my ballot. But even back in the '70s, the democRAT Party, as a party, was terminally corrupt. It just hadn't yet purged out all of the more-or-less conservatives.
I wonder what percentage of U.S. Catholic priests and bishops are Democrats vs. Republicans.
But Bordallo is a NON-VOTING U.S. Delegate !
In other words, only 1% of Catholic Democrats in congress are really Catholic.
Trump needs to make clear that the federal government will not lift a finger against states that nullify the USSC’s abortion decisions. And he should proceed with legislation to strip abortion from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
I’d like to see the USSC evicted from their grandiose temple, and moved into some WWII-era office space with buzzing fluorescent lights.
Or by Archbishops Chaput, Cupich, etc., and Cardinals Wuerl, Dolan, O’Malley, etc.
Only about ten bishops in the U.S. don’t give Communion to pro-aborts.
If these 99% of Catholic democrats are not really Catholics
What does that make the clergy who give them communion as well?
Catholics can do what they want but in my church if you are openly pro abortion and progressive
At a minimum you’ll be very lonely and may be asked to go
I’m ignorant specific Catholic history but did they once drum out the disobedient
And if so why haven’t they since Roe?
As for a democrat one could vote for?
There used to be some who were indeed pro life and pro America
I grew up around social conservative southern democrats who even though New Deal flawed they were sure prescient about culture war
Of course they’ve been vilified by everyone since
The GOPe is as lib on race as any good progressive
God love em
Why are Catholics who adhere to and promote anti Catholic doctrine not excommunicated?
Very true.
A bishop I know estimates that about half of the bishops voted twice for Obama. I think even more will vote for Hillary, because they know that the $100+ million per year they get bringing Muslims into the country will dry up under Trump.
Look how formerly “pro-life” Chaput now can’t distinguish between a pro-abort fanatic and a pro-life candidate:
Definitely.
Because that would probably mean about 99% of the hierarchy including the pope?
I want to say that the delegates vote in committee (unless it’s determinative?) but not on the floor.
Possibly they assembled her voting record by her statements on the issue.
Actually, the fact that the most pro-life voting Catholic Dem is non-voting makes total sense.
Hmmm, Democrat Catholics cave to party pressure. To them, I guess, politics outweigh God in importance.
Yup. If she COULD vote, the other RATs would force her to vote pro-abortion when her vote was needed.
They do vote in committee, and can be on conference committees and can introduce and co-sponsor bills. I’m not sure if their votes in committee are allowed to be determinitive or not.
In ‘93 the rats started letting them vote in the committee of the whole (if their votes made the difference a 2nd vote without them would be taken), GOP got rid of that, Dems put it back in ‘07, GOP got rid of it again.
Thank you Kennedies, Cuomos, Pelosis and your ilk, for being Leftist Democrats first and Catholics third, fourth or fifth. Way to go, throwing your alleged faith into the garbage barrel!
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