Pro-Abortion Republican Groups Announce New Partnership to Weaken GOP

Life News ^ | 2/13/09 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two pro-abortion Republican groups have announced a newly-formed partnership designed to weaken the long-standing pro-life platform the GOP maintains. The Republican Majority for Choice and the WISH List (Women in the Senate and House) hope to team up to drag the party to the left.

Colleen Parro, the head of the Republican National Coalition for Life tells LifeNews.com about the new effort.

"Feeling scorned after eighteen years of trying and failing to remove the pro-life language from the Republican national platform, and with the last three Republican presidential administrations [taking a pro-life stance], pro-choice Republican women are trying to make a come-back," Parro said.

The two pro-abortion groups say they plan to “continue the battle for personal freedoms and choice in the GOP.”

Parro says that means they favor "getting rid of the pro-life plank and electing abortion-friendly candidates to office."

Last summer, the Republican Party's platform committee put together a new pro-life party platform that contains some of the strongest language ever condemning abortion and supporting legal protections for unborn children.

It stood in stark contrast to the pro-abortion plank Democrats approved at the behest of President Barack Obama.

The platform draws on the nation's founding documents as expressing the earliest support for human life but backs a Constitutional amendment to make those protections clear.

"Faithful to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence, we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed," the final GOP platform draft says.

"We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children," it added.

During the primary election campaign, exit polling data showed Republicans in most states took a pro-life position by wanting all or most abortions illegal.

Some 19 of 24 states with publicly-available data showed pro-life Republican majorities.

Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, who is pro-life, was recently elected as the new chairman of the Republican Party.

[mkjessup]

Throw the baby-murdering bitches out of the GOP, let the ‘Rats have ‘em.

Ronald Reagan said it best, when he said “most of these people in favor of abortion have already been born.”

[wagglebee]

Ronald Reagan also said it perfectly here:

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

Ronald Reagan: Let Them Go Their Way

[Seaplaner]

Yeah why don’t they just register as Democrats if they want to kill babies.

Same objective, but this is more effective.

Not unlike the de facto Democrats Collins, Snowe, and Specter, and how their (R) helps them do more damage.

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[Dr. Sivana]

I go back and forth on a daily basis trying to decide whether the GOP is worth saving or if conservatives should just leave. The more I read about how the GOP was formed by anti-slavery Whigs and how it became the dominant political party in just over a decade, the more I think it's time for conservatives to just leave.

Since the days of the Whigs, the two party structure in most of the several states have set up structures that make it much harder to form a viable third party than what existed in the 1850's.

There are a handful of approaches one could take. One would be a regional party that would caucus with or against the Republicans as circumstances dictated. Canada's Bloc Quebecois' power exceeds their numbers as the other major parties are forced to curry favor. Canada is a multi party system, however, so it is easier for them.

You would need an obscenely rich person to run for a key spot and directly or indirectly bankroll the whole thing. Ross Perot actually could have won the White House in '92 if he didn't wig out. I'm not recommending a Perot type, but individual rich people who are running for office are one of the few categories left mostly alone by the changes in law. They can hire the man power to get on the ballot, get poll numbers, and get media access.

If you tried to outright kill the Republican party, the cost would be so steep in the short term, that there might be no chance of getting a majority anywhere by the time the Trotskyites are done tinkering with the mechanics. Such tinkering is much more efficient and extensive today due to technology and the greater reach of government compared to 1850.

In my opinion, it would actually be easier to restart the Republicans. A lot of the bad guys are already gone. Some more are up in years. It was a mere six years after the debacle of Watergate in '74 that Reagan arose. People will blame Bush for the economic problems for about two years before they start to wonder when Obama is going to fix it. Obama has no intention of fixing it, which at this point can best be done by leaving things alone. People with money are not going to do anything with it until they see the risks and rewards with a rejiggered massive set of laws.

As far as the "pro-choice" Republicans. We can't stop them from running, so they should be primaried at every turn. Strategic 3rd party candidates to help defeat RINOs may be called for. Even that will have some very bad short term side effects.

[chris_bdba]

Sorry but you are not the majority and BW has anyone ever heard of either of these unknown groups?

[chris_bdba]

BW= BTW

[wagglebee]

Thanks, that was a great post. Your concerns about starting a new party are basically the same that I have had. Nevertheless, if the GOP doesn’t stage a dramatic turn-around in the 2010 midterm elections, that might just be the end.

[wagglebee]

By “not the majority” are you referring to me or these pro-death RINOs?

[arealconservativeforachange]

The Kool-Aid drinking Party over principle crew will be here shortly.

[Sacajaweau]

There should be no need for a pro-life platform. There are laws against murder excepting self defense.

No person is more incapable of defending themselves than a baby in the womb.

[TheConservativeParty]

There are no pro-baby killer conservatives.Should the GOP ever take pro-life out of their basic moral stances, that will be the real end of them. That must be exactly what those pro-death supposedly republican groups want.

[Theodore R.]

Can the GOP go any lower? Even if it loses a third of the delegations, would anything change? GWB, as much as Hoover, has killed the GOP.

[Just mythoughts]

If you are feeling “scorned” as republicans, why not join a party in which you will be loved and appreciated? Or is it just more fun to try to destroy the republican party!

'FEELING' Now that is liberal ease, Bama is always looking for people to keep his back seats on his buses warm, and you probably could get in realllllll cheap and might make a windfall under his stimulus conspiracy.

[Right Wing Assault]

Hey, join another party. We don’t need this one screwed up any more than it already is. I know that’s what you want to do, but NO, Thanks!

[Kanzan]

Same thing happened in 1992, figurehead a woman named Ann Stone. All she wanted to do was be on TV and then it became obvious that she had no interest in electing Republicans, after all. Maybe she’s resurfaced. I’m sure the MSM will give her another 15 minutes of fame.

[chris_bdba]

Them, not us pro life folks. :)

[CowboyJay]

Yeah why don’t they just register as Democrats if they want to kill babies.

Because they know the best way to destroy the Pro Life movement is to have it removed from the Republican platform. These people aren't Republicans. They're sleeper-cell activists and incompletely-reformed democrats.

[wagglebee]

Pinged from Terri Dailies

[stevie_d_64]

He really nailed it didn’t he!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

That's why I said I don't give a damn about Repbulicans. I only care about Conservatives. We need a Conservative Party. If it takes forming a new party, so be it.