Posted on 05/04/2017 10:01:13 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Nancy Pelosi Blames Clinton’s Loss on Pro-Lifers: “Anti-Choicers. That’s How Trump Got to be President”
Pro-abortion House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi admitted this week that the Democratic Party’s support of abortion has not been a winning issue.
Pelosi spoke to the Washington Post about whether her party should support pro-life candidates or require that candidates support easy access to taxpayer-funded abortions through all nine months of pregnancy.
Struggling after heavy election losses in November, many in the Democratic Party are debating whether to support pro-life candidates, especially in rural areas where voters tend to be more pro-life.
The debate erupted in April after abortion activists with NARAL criticized DNC Chair Tom Perez, Sen. Bernie Sanders and others for supporting a Nebraska mayoral candidate who has a pro-life voting record.
Perez responded to the criticism by describing abortion as a “fundamental value” to the party and said every Democrat should support it.
But other Democrats disagree. Some, like Pelosi, appear to be recognizing that the party’s support of abortion-on-demand-up-to-birth is losing them voters.
Pelosi blamed pro-abortion Democrat Hillary Clinton’s loss on pro-life voters. Clinton supported the unpopular platform of forcing taxpayers to directly fund abortions, and she promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold Roe v. Wade and abortion on demand up until birth, if elected.
Pelosi told the Washington Post this week: “You know what? That’s why Donald Trump is president of the United States—the evangelicals and the Catholics, anti-marriage equality, anti-choice. That’s how he got to be president. Everything was trumped, literally and figuratively by that.”
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Pelosi, who supports the pro-abortion platform but describes herself as a Catholic, said many in her Catholic family are pro-life. She also mentioned U.S. Sen. Bob Casey from Pennsylvania, a Democrat who sometimes votes pro-life.
“You think I’m kicking them out of the Democratic Party?” Pelosi said.
Abortion activists have been trying to take over the Democratic Party with their radical agenda for years.
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL, contradicted Pelosi and claimed that support of pro-life candidates “leads to bad policy” for women and the economy.
“If the Democratic Party is going to gain back power, it can’t go backward, it can’t back down and it can’t trade away these principles,” Hogue told the Post, referring to abortion.
But Hogue’s statements to the Post made it clear just how radical the Democratic Party’s current platform is. It is not the party of “safe, legal and rare” abortions anymore.
The NARAL president said the new Democratic Party platform “didn’t just seek to protect abortion access — it sought to expand it.”
Nearly 1 million abortions occur annually in the United States, and Hogue basically said NARAL and the Democratic Party want to see abortions increase – and be paid for by our tax dollars.
Despite what Hogue and her fellow abortion activists claim, polls show that most Americans do not support most abortions or taxpayer funding for them. Most Americans want abortions to be illegal or limited to a few rare circumstances.
Some Democrats like Pelosi seem to be realizing that their party has become too extreme on abortion for many voters. That does not mean Pelosi is changing her pro-abortion position, but she is encouraging more inclusivity – something Democrats for Life has been working to do for years.
Democrats for Life estimates more than 23 million Democrats in the U.S. are pro-life. Last year, Pew Research found that 28 percent of Democrats say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases. Marist/KofC polling also found that 23 percent of Democrats consider themselves pro-life.
But the party’s increasingly radical pro-abortion stance has turned away many voters.
For example, taxpayer funding for abortion is an extremely unpopular issue, even among Democrats and those who describe themselves as pro-choice. A Politico/Harvard University poll in October 2016 found that just 36 percent of likely voters supported taxpayer funding for abortions, while 58 percent opposed it. These findings are consistent with previous polls from various groups.
The Democratic Party has not always been so extreme on abortion. The party, which prides itself in fighting for the vulnerable, once welcomed strong pro-life politicians who fought for the rights of unborn babies. Perhaps this debate will encourage the party to begin doing so again.
Death is a “fundamental value” to savage Islamics too.
Rush Limbaugh has often said "words mean things." The title of this article illustrates how liberals understand that concept better than many on the right, and use it to promote their agenda. What we call "Pro-Life", the left calls "Anti-Choice." What the left calls "Pro Choice", many on our side also call "Pro Choice." We need to do a better job of defining this issue (and many others.) We need to stop using the term Pro-Choice, and instead describe these butchers as Anti-Life.
And proud of it, old woman.
Go home and stew some braccioli.
Evangelical, Catholic, anti-marriage equality, and anti-choice social conservatives elected Trump.
Bill Clinton’s appearance of an inappropriate meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch elected Trump.
Misogyny elected Trump.
Hatred of Hillary Clinton at the FBI (how could anyone hate a lovable woman like Hillary?) elected Trump.
The Russians elected Trump.
Wikileaks elected Trump.
FBI Director Comey elected Trump.
Sinister outside forces elected Trump.
Whitelash elected Trump.
Democrat policies that favor the rich elected Trump.
Failure to talk to working-class white voters elected Trump.
FBI investigation elected Trump.
Email scandal elected Trump.
Men elected Trump.
Lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because that’s how professional relationships work) elected Trump.
Tim Kaine gave Hillary Virginia, but he also elected Trump.
White women elected Trump.
Racists elected Trump.
Sexists elected Trump.
Rural voters elected Trump.
The working class voting against their own interests elected Trump.
Fake news elected Trump.
Facebook elected Trump.
Supermarket tabloids elected Trump.
Celebrity (The Apprentice) elected Trump.
White male resentment elected Trump.
Over-shaming Trump supporters elected Trump.
Rejecting Bernie elected Trump.
Reagan democrats elected Trump.
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters elected Trump.
Backlash against political correctness elected Trump.
There are many terrible reasons for President Trump’s victory, but there are two things that were not a factor. First, Hillary was the perfect candidate; nothing she did harmed her candidacy in any way. Second, President Trump was the worst candidate imaginable; nothing he did helped his candidacy at all, except with racists, sexists, bigots, and the rest of the basket of deplorables.
Absolutely correct. Trump won by mobilizing pro-life believers.
Nancy makes me wish that Pro-Choice could be retro-active
Vile woman.
Agree. I call them pro-death, and their heads explode.
The anti-life crowd is anti-choice. They don’t want innocent babies to live long enough to be able to exercise their choices.
Come on you guys just say it!!
Anti Choicers ABORTED Clinton!
Now she knows how it feels to be Aborted!
I'm with you, although I up the ante a bit by calling them pro-infanticide. (As a bonus, I also refuse to use the term "gay" to describe sodomite...).
So Miss Lube Rack of 1955 claims Killary can’t beat Bush?
The Left is always clever at choosing their labels. Killing babies becomes “choice.” Abandoning the consensus of all human societies for thousands of years that marriage involves people of opposite sexes (whether the society only recognizes monogamous marriages or permits polygamous ones) becomes “equality.”
Anti Choicers ABORTED Clinton!
Now she knows how it feels to be Aborted!
Well, she was just a blob of cells anyway.
Funny how a tiny minority of prolifers can swing an election.
FULL TITLE: Nancy Pelosi Blames Clinton’s Loss on Pro-Lifers: “Anti-Choicers. That’s How Trump Got to be President”
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Hey Nancy:
Suck it up, buttercup.
signed...
Anti-Choicer from Texas.
She left out anti-Pelosi faction.
Many think she aborted JFK’s baby.
A bloated sack of protoplasm
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