Posted on 02/14/2020 8:13:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Democrat 2020 hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said on national television this week that there is room for pro-lifers in the Democrat Party.
On the day of the New Hampshire Primary, Klobuchar appeared on ABC’s “The View” where she was asked by co-host Meghan McCain about whether “there’s room for pro-life Democrats to vote for you.”
The question came days after fellow 2020 hopeful Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders declared that being pro-choice “is an absolutely essential part of being a Democrat.”
Klobuchar, a 59-year-old attorney who is also a member of the United Church of Christ, responded first by affirming that she is “pro-choice” and has “always been pro-choice.” This can be verified by her voting record in support of taxpayer-funded abortion and her support for Planned Parenthood.
“But I believe we are a big tent party and there are pro-life Democrats and they are part of our party,” Klobuchar said. “I think we need to build a big tent. I think we need to bring people in instead of shutting them out. That also includes independents right here in New Hampshire and moderate Republicans.”
Klobuchar surprised many Tuesday when she placed third in the New Hampshire presidential primary election and won the most support among voters who attend religious services weekly, according to exit polls.
Klobuchar has earned a 100 percent grade from the lobbying arm of the nation’s largest abortion corporation, Planned Parenthood.
To earn a 100 percent grade from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, members of Congress must “always vote with Planned Parenthood.”
Klobuchar vowed in December to reverse pro-life policies instituted by the Trump administration within the first 100 days in office.
The Trump administration has taken several steps to end taxpayer-funding of organizations that perform or promote abortion domestically and overseas, including banning Title X family planning funds from going to clinics that refer or provide abortions.
Last year, Planned Parenthood left the Title X program rather than have clinics stop promoting or performing abortions.
“In the first 100 days I will remove Trump’s ‘gag rules,’ which I can do with no need of congressional involvement,” Klobuchar told The Guardian in an interview. “I will reverse funding decisions right away, and make sure that we only nominate judges for confirmation who are consistent with [Roe v. Wade].”
The question has been raised for years about whether there is room for pro-life Democrats in the party.
Democrat National Committee Chair Tom Perez made headlines in 2017 when he said the party would withhold support from any candidates who did not consider themselves to be pro-choice. That statement was criticized by a number of prominent Democrats such as then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The head of the Congressional Campaign Committee said months later that there is no “litmus test” on abortion. Currently, there are two Democrat senators considered to be pro-life. Former pro-life Democrat Joe Donnelly of Indiana was defeated by Republican Mike Braun in the 2018 election.
Although Sanders said that being pro-choice is absolutely essential to being a Democrat, he received pushback in 2017 after he campaigned on behalf of a mayoral candidate in Nebraska who supported a bill that would have required doctors to notify women of their right to an ultrasound before an abortion.
Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who came in second in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, reiterated his support for a late-term abortion last week while speaking on “The View.”
“[M]y point is that it shouldn’t be up to a government official to draw the line,” Buttigieg said. “It should be up to the woman who is confronted with the choice.”
Buttigieg has been criticized for citing the Bible in an attempt to defend his support for late-term abortion by saying there are parts of Scripture “that talk about how life begins with the breath.”
Elected mayor in 2011, Buttigieg was in office during the time abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer operated the Women's Pavilion abortion clinic in South Bend where he injured several women during abortion procedures.
In a previous comment to CP, Rose, founder of the pro-life group Live Action, accused Buttigieg of having “protected” Klopfer who performed thousands of abortions at that clinic.
She’s playing it smart.
Still a filthy liberal, though.
Lies, lies..and more lies. They take right after their BIG DADDY; The Father of Lies. These SOBs ALL worship at the altar of the abortion god, Molech. They’re vying for votes anyway they can.
If that includes lying to the uninformed and the emotional soccer moms across the fruited plain, so be it. Bottom line: they’re godless and evil....oh, I forgot to mention they’re also communists. Anyone with half a brain can see right thru em.
‘She’s creating just enough wiggle room for Communist Catholic Priests to tell their flocks it’s okay to vote Democrat.’
suburban parishes don’t need Klobuchar or any priests to tell their females that voting democrat is okay...
If she makes it up against President Trump in debate, President should use that exact statement. Room for Pro-Lifers exactly one day every four years.
the democrats are pro-death. Go read their party platform. It explicit demands the right for women to murder their babies.
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/2016_DNC_Platform.pdf
Here is the excerpt from their platform:
“Democrats are committed to protecting and advancing reproductive health, rights, and justice. We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion—regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured.”
JoMa
That’s good.
Boy my vocabulary sucks. That IS what baby murder is.
I like yours.
We gotta convey that people are being Murdered and I just don’t think “pro life” gets that point across strongly enough.
Folks against the death penalty can say they are “pro life” too.
We’re AGAINST infanticide.
I like it.
now if it will only catch on
She wants to undo the Hyde amendment, so she would make taxpayers pay for abortions.
Everything starts small.
I’m gonna put it on social media, which I use VERY infrequently.
And also email a lot of folks I know and explain our reasoning.
I just don’t think pro life well enough conveys the URGENCY and HORROR about this situation.
Sometime things need to sound darker to get the message across better.
infanticide is an extremely dark word to anyone who has kids. It is enough to stop you in your tracks and send a shudder down your spine.
You’re right.
It’s hard hitting and emotionally upsetting.
It should be.
She is the anti Hillary and IMO poses the greatest challenge to Trump. The others he can ridicule in the debates. He ridiculed Hillary but even her voters did not like her. He got upbraided for his ridiculing of Carly Fiorina. That would increase tenfold if he tries it with Klobuchar. Other than Mini Mike, she is his most effective challenger.
Problem is, she was helping to drive.
Sure, we’ll take your vote.
Love Comrad Petey.
I as well know conservative Lutherans (in a church body that strongly opposes abortion) who do the same thing.
If I were the pastor I don’t know how I could commune them.
Isn’t it a sin to support such gross public sin?
If Trump ever meets someone whose number he doesn’t have, I guess we’ll know.
But Klobuchar is not actually nice. Watch her in the Kavanaugh hearings. She started out all gentle and smiley but did the same ugly evil $hit the other leftists did.
And she’s really, really ugly in side profile.
He would get her — but she won’t be the nominee.
> He got upbraided for his ridiculing of Carly Fiorina
And he kicked her scrawny ass along with the others.
He is upbraided over everything.
He would kick Klobuchar’s fat a$$ as well.
Nope, not a chance she'll make it through Super Tuesday with either a first or second place finish
He absolutely would but in doing so in a national election hewon’t gain any votes but stands to lose a lot of independents or undecideds. That is why if faced with Klobuchar he should control himself.
“”But I believe we are a big tent party and there are pro-life Democrats and they are part of our party,” Klobuchar said. “I think we need to build a big tent.””
Do any of those numbskulls think about what they’re saying before they say it? They are a big tent party but they need to build a big tent??????
That woman is so boring I can’t believe she hasn’t fallen off the trail yet..what does that say about those who support her? Horrors!
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