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.
Catholic ping!
All heretics. But I’m sure they sally up to the altar rail to receive Communion handed out by an ignorant deacon in shorts and flip-flops.
Amazing what bribery money will do to morals.
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Actions speak louder than words.
Not only that, but they show up at parish festivals and fundraising dinners and are feted like “A” list celebrities.
The demonicRAT Party is explicitly pro-death. The Republican Party is at least nominally pro-life.
I have never voted for a democrat.
Stephen Lynch (D-MA) went from a 0% NARAL score to 100% in 20 years (50% to 0% NRLC score in 15 years).
He may still get votes from people who think he's pro-life.
And actions speak louder than doctrine.
Zell Miller was the only one who came even close.
"Only 1% of Catholic Democrats in Congress Pro-Life vs. 94% of Republican Catholics"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While it’s good that Catholic RINOs are basically anti-abortion, please consider the following.
Even if Catholic lawmakers in Congress were 100% for or against abortion, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for abortion purposes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional interference in state affairs as evidenced by unconstitutional, vote-winning federal funding for abortions.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
You cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat, they are mutually exclusive belief systems.
I have never seen a democRAT on any ballot which I was eligible to cast, who was worth a bucked of sewage. I doubt that I ever will. Besides which, the PARTY is formally abortionist, sodomite, disarmist, and socialist.
I have never seen a democRAT on any ballot which I was eligible to cast, who was worth a bucked of sewage. I doubt that I ever will. Besides which, the PARTY is formally abortionist, sodomite, disarmist, and socialist.
Democrats who claim to be Catholics are dishonest.
It is impossible to be a sincere Catholic and a Democrat.
democrats are disgusting people. Even Catholic democrats.
I knew many democrat catholics in Maryland. All their kids were in catholic schools even though they hardly went to church. Their dirty little secret was that while they talked about the poor and how heartless and racist republicans were, they wanted abortion legal so that “we” (taxpayers) didn’t have to support the black children for 18 years.
And those are words right from their racist mouths.
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But there was once a time when there were actual conservative Democrats, who were 100% against abortion, homosexuality and the other pernicious social agenda items. Of course, they championed the old-school Democrat values like unions and "minimum wage" crap, but that describes a lot of current Republicans, who have moved on the scale to where Democrats used to be.
The US Supreme Court has a similar problem with Liberal Catholics on the court supporting abortion, same sex marriage and other non Catholic positions.
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