Congress, Abortion and District 19

Political Blog ^ | February 16, 2010 | Raquel Okyay

[Raquel]

How nice it is to live in the 21st century with an abundant amount of information at your fingertips? Any web bar will do, type, hit enter, and without too much effort the answers to your questions are right there for the reading.

I found a gold mine at the website addressed www.opensecrets.org, among many other useful resources, it gives one the power to type in the name of a political candidate and find out who is (reportedly) donating to their campaign and how much. I typed in Nan Hayworth, Republican candidate for New York’s Congressional District 19.

What that initial search led to will be disturbing not just to pro-lifers but to the community at large, and what’s sad here is that other people have this information too, but have failed to bring it to light because higher ups in the political arena are tip toeing around Nan Hayworth hoping she will either withdraw from the race without too much fanfare or worse, hoping that no one will notice if she doesn’t.

A top donor to the Hayworth campaign is political action committee “American Medical Group Association.” This group’s Chair Elect is Hayworth’s husband, Dr. Scott Hayworth. The PAC raises money for “pro-choice” Democrats at the rate of 80%. This is perfectly legal and a quick look by the average voter, its implication is not so clear.

From a pro-life perspective, however, it’s easy to make the assumption that husband Hayworth is more than just supportive of abortion rights but actively works to defend it by raising money to fund pro-abortion candidates – not very different from a Planned Parenthood PAC – and by association links candidate Hayworth with the powerful abortion lobby.

[Lazamataz]

"There are a lot of secrets in District 19."

[Raquel]

Go to article, the candidate’s husband responds to my charge.

[neverdem]

Thanks Raquel.