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Showing Original Post only (View all)Democrats Willing to Fund Pro-Life Candidates to Win Back Congress [View all]
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After years of party polarization over abortion, Democrats may finally be taking steps toward welcoming more pro-life Christians into their ranks.............
Will the potential of luring voters who have avoided the party over the issue of abortion be worth the backlash from the Democratic base, including outspoken abortion-rights advocates?
Will the potential of luring voters who have avoided the party over the issue of abortion be worth the backlash from the Democratic base, including outspoken abortion-rights advocates?
To read more:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/august/democrats-no-litmus-test-abortion-prolife-candidates-2018.html
Is this part of the problem, or part of the solution? If the Democratic Party is willing to compromise on the abortion issue, what else is on the table, so to speak?
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This will weaken one of the historic planks in the modern Democratic Party. | |
6 (15%) |
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This will demonstrate that womens' rights are not as important as winning elections. | |
25 (63%) |
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This will demonstrate that the Democratic Party is open to compromise on this issue. | |
3 (8%) |
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6 (15%) |
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guillaumeb
Aug 2017
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My Congressman, a Democrat, was against the ACA and is a self-described "pro life" Democrat.
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#3
My own fear is that if one attempts to appeal to every voter, there will be no real platform.
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#13
I hope all the Democrats that stayed home in the 2016 election think this way, too.
JoeStuckInOH
Aug 2017
#41
There's a difference between misogynists and an ideology steeped in misogyny
John Barcell
Aug 2017
#46
Anti-woman, hatred of women, seeking to control women & resrict their rights is not misogyny?
uppityperson
Aug 2017
#47
WE are talking about misogyny. It's not haphazard and neither a "dog whistle" nor "stereotyping"
uppityperson
Aug 2017
#67
They're common terms in political analysis for anybody who wants to have meaningful discussion
John Barcell
Aug 2017
#71
Pro-life gives that clump of cells the right to control the woman. It does marginalize women to not
uppityperson
Aug 2017
#74
If you follow an ideology that hates and marginalizes women, you're misogynist.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2017
#49
I'm going to make this really easy for you by setting it out bit by bit.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2017
#73
As my mom used to say, she hoped we'd never have an abortion but fought hard to keep the right
uppityperson
Aug 2017
#76
maybe the main religions should use a bit of logic and reason and actually question
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2017
#61
You wouldn't sacrifice woman's rights, if you read any of my post you'd understand that
John Barcell
Aug 2017
#45
"Nobody is going to roll back woman's rights in a democratic government. Not ever."
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2017
#48
"Nobody is going to roll back woman's rights"??? Good Lord, do you not read the news?
uppityperson
Aug 2017
#70
I'd rather we focus on winning statehouses, so we can deal with the gerrymandering in 2020
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#20
And framing was the reason that people like the ACA while also hating "Obamacare".
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#32
I think pro-life is such a compromised and "politically" misleading term that any candidate
Johonny
Aug 2017
#23
Agreed. It is not being "anti-fetus" to be in favor of being for a woman's freedom to choose.
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#34
You should have included a choice like "This will demonstrate that control of Congress"....
PoliticAverse
Aug 2017
#51
You can be both pro-life and pro-choice. Whatever your personal or religious beliefs are,
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#81
The Biden that will clearly state that personal belief won't interfere with his vote, works. nt
DoodAbides
Aug 2017
#83
All this time of pronouncements that party critics needed a reason to vote FOR Democrats
BainsBane
Aug 2017
#87
To me, the primary reason to vote for Democrats is that they are the better of the two
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#95