Pro-Life Democrats Need Not Apply

The American Spectator ^ | 8-27-08 | Daniel Allott

[Wolf13]

The Democratic Party has an abortion problem. Barack Obama, its presumptive presidential nominee, has compiled what one TAS writer described as a 110% pro-abortion record. The extra 10 percent comes from having twice voted against legislation to protect babies born alive after botched abortions. (Even the extreme abortion-rights group NARAL refused to oppose those bills.)

And the last two weeks have seen the party's top two leaders -- Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- baffled over questions about when they think human life begins.

Combine such cluelessness with poll numbers that reveal an increasingly pro-life electorate and the durability of abortion as a top concern for the party's most elusive voting bloc, evangelicals and other regular churchgoers, and it's easy to see why softening its pro-abortion image has soared to the top of the Democratic Party's to-do list.

But an examination of the party platform, ratified last Monday, reveals that the Democratic Party has no intention of moderating its extreme stance on abortion.

[Wolf13]

More of the same abortion extremism from the Dems.

[Impy]

This isn’t news. Rats don’t accommodate their pro-life members the way the GOP accommodates their pro-choicers.

Good. Maybe some of those idiots (many of them Catholics who think Jesus says render unto Caesar therefore TAX AND SPEND AND WASTE AND INTRUDE) will vote Republican or at least feel really bad about themselves for voting democrat and cry and worry about going to hell.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition … St. Augustine said at three months. We don't know. The point is, is that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose."

I think a lot of people have missed the significance of ole Nancy's statement above from Meet the depressed. Before, the excuse was we don't know when life begins so it's all about women's right to choose. However, Nancy makes the case above that it does not matter when life begins, the right for a woman to choose supercedes that right. In other words, to Nancy a woman has the right to murder as long as the life is inside of her.

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[Convert from ECUSA]

Ain’t it the truth! Especially about the liberal “social justice” CINOs. I’m a pro-life conservative Catholic who regards these CINOs (Biden, Teddy K, Kerry, and Pelosi are a few examples) as traitors to the Church (they excommunicated themselves by their pro-abortion stance).

[Salvation]

[hout8475]

But Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. spoke last night. He’s a pro-life guy, just like his dad. Ha! Obviously not, since they actually allowed him to speak. You should have heard him. He kept saying, “Not four more years of Bush/McCain, four more months!”