Posted on 08/23/2004 3:40:15 PM PDT by WKB
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- In addition to their efforts to overturn the Republican Party's pro-life position on abortion and to include a unity plank into the platform, leading abortion advocates are planning to hold their largest fundraiser ever. The shindig will receive support from some key Republican notables.
Jennifer Blei Stockman, co-chairman of the Republican Majority for Choice, a pro-abortion political action committee, says her group will hold its biggest fundraising effort on the second night of the convention at a club in New York City.
Stockman told the Greenwich Time newspaper that she expects 450 people to attend, including members of Congress, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York first lady Libby Pataki.
"We've never done anything of this magnitude," Stockman said. "We're calling it the 'Big Tent Event,' because we've invited everyone, all Republican members of Congress, even those who are not pro-choice."
The event will honor the 40 pro-abortion Republican members of Congress.
Stockman also said her group would try to influence the Republican Party platform, which for decades has backed a Human Life Amendment to the constitution. However, she admits the prospects are dim.
"With an incumbent president, I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see changes," she told the Connecticut newspaper.
Last week, pro-life Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was chosen to craft the abortion part of the platform.
Pro-life attorney Jim Bopp is a member of the platform committee and he told LifeNews.com that Barbour's selection should ensure the platform will remain strongly pro-life.
"I am very pleased with the appointment of Gov. Haley Barbour as chairman of the Family subcommittee," Bopp said. "He has a strong pro-life and pro-family record and will be a powerful advocate for President Bush's positions."
Bopp, who has done legal work for the Republican Party and is general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, tells LifeNews.com that he "expect[s] the pro-life plank to be retained and strengthened."
Though most Republicans, including President Bush and most GOP members of Congress, are pro-life Stockman told the Greenwich paper she plans to stay in the party and hopes to change it from within.
"But instead of leaving the party, as so many people have done, we're organized, we are now well-funded, and we're in there, working within our own party structure to try to change things," Stockman said.
Memo to Jennifer Two-Name Person, abort the party. RINOs be gone.
You do your cause and the republican party a disservice when you call those who support freedom of choice "pro abortion". If you truly support freedom (which is what this country is all about) you have to allow for "wrong" choices. If you conclude that you are more qualified to determine what is best for a woman regarding what is contained within her body, you are not someone who supports freedom. If you think potential human life is more significant than the freedom of established, reasoning human life, you are not for freedom - you are for the tyranny of a particular religious position.
BUMP for BOPP! He's a longtime California activist from Northern California. He and his wife have been California Republican Assembly activists as long as I've been involved.
Bastards
Well, she carried a heckuva lot of metal, lets put it that way. I pierced my ear in college, my mom cried, my dad laughed.
I'm expecting a wild, flame-drenched brimstone-fest.
The road to political power is to attract more than half the voters, not chase voters away.
"religious left" is an oxymoron... all who do not believe in the sanctity of life will burn in hell and the quicker the better in my opinion.
Of course. However, many people seem to prefer "making a point" to winning and actually advancing. They do not seem to realize that, with enoug of those "points" made in that way, no one will even be listening after a while.
I have gotten two "invitations" to this thing (at $250--what a deal). They must be mailing to every Republican within vaccuming distance.
God bless Haley Barbour.
He's in charge.
OHHHHhhh look, it's staring already! You can just FEEL those pounds on the pulpit!
C'mon over and watch the fire and brimstone directed at REPUBLICANS! Bring some marshmallows and sticks!
We do, AT THE STATE LEVEL. Overturning Roe V Wade would simple drop it into 50 different juridictions to legalize or outlaw as they see fit.
You aren't allowed to make the wrong choice when someone else's life is invloved. I can't kill my neighbor under the guise of having the freedom to make the wrong choice, nor can a woman abort her child under such pretenses.
And please tell me you didn't just suggest that supporting the state's right to allow slavery is the pro-freedom position. I seriously hope it was not your intent to convey such a position.
As long as you keep your wrong choices to yourself, I have no problem with it. Just don't try to violate someone else's rights in the process.
"God bless Haley Barbour.
He's in charge."
I echo those sentiments, onyx.
Thanks for the ping, WKB.
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