Democrats Willing to Fund Pro-Life Candidates to Win Back Congress

[Willie Pep]

88. I am a pro-life Democrat.

As somebody who tries to follow the pro-life movement I can tell you that many pro-lifers are not conservative on every issue and are less interested in overturning Roe v. Wade than helping women obtain access to health care and child care and other liberal policies that would probably do much to reduce the number of abortions. The Patheos website has some interesting Catholics like myself who see that legal restrictions won't end abortion and will just send women to obtain illegal, underground abortions.

Here are two articles that basically reflect my views on the issue:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/themackerelsnapper/2016/09/06/im-prolife-and-i-dont-care-about-the-supreme-court/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scottericalt/vote-republican-to-stop-abortion-and-other-myths/

I think the Democrats would make a big mistake to outright reject Democrats who label themselves pro-life because we need to win more in red states. Right now the Democrats are on their way to becoming a permanent minority coastal party. Politicians like Joe Manchin and Joe Donnelly are needed in the Senate. We could also use more governors like John Bel Edwards of Louisiana who presided over Medicaid expansion and issued an executive order to ban discrimination against LGBT people in state hiring and contracts. They are all much better than the likely Republican alternatives.