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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf You Are Truly Pro-Life, You’d Vote Democrat.
If You Are Truly Pro-Life, Youd Vote DemocratIts disappointing to see Christianity watered-down to a single hot-button political issue, but since so many of the responses to posts on this site and facebook have focused exclusively on abortion, I wanted to address it. If you believe Life is the sole issue Christians should vote on, I dont see how you could do anything but vote Democrat.
Some could argue that what a Party says is more important than what it actually does when it comes to abortion. But if you really care about protecting the unborn and believe saving those lives is more important than merely talking about how we should, you need to vote Democrat.
The truth is that whether a person IDs as pro-life or pro-choice, we should all be able to agree that 1-in-5 pregnancies in this country ending in abortion reflects a serious societal problem that needs to be addressed. The question is what do we do about it?
The Republican and Religious Rights focus on criminalization and overturning Roe may makes proponents feel good, but it does not help the unborn. Republicans first made this a political issue back in the late 1970s, and we have as many abortions now as we had then. Despite decades of campaign promises and a period where 7 of 9 Supreme Court Justices were GOP appointees and Republicans controlled the White House and both branches of Congress, Roe remains the law of the land.
The rest: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithfuldemocrats/2012/09/if-you-are-truly-pro-life-youd-vote-democrat/
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Today marks Roe at 40. Good read.
Edit to add: Republican controlled government leads to more abortions, not less: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Increased_the_number_of_abortions
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If You Are Truly Pro-Life, You’d Vote Democrat. (Original Post)
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
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etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)1. Though I left Catholicism long ago ...
... my devout Catholic family votes for the Democratic Party/ candidate because they believe this is true.
orleans
(34,051 posts)2. i vote "democrat." so i guess that makes me .....
.........
"GAY!"
(sorry--i was just reminded of the graduation scene in In & Out where everyone stands up in alliance with Howard:
Walter Brackett: I'm a member of the community and I don't mind that Howard's gay.
Tom Halliwell: But you're Howard's brother. As you know.
Walter Brackett: Well, you know what that means. Uh-oh. I must be gay!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119360/quotes
i'd post a video of the scene but i can't find it on youtube