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Support hurt Democrats Abortion
Let’s be honest. It was more than
mid-election doldrums that caused
Democratic losses. The party’s abortion-on-demand language removed
“rare” from “safe, legal, and rare.” The
Democratic Party apparently doesn’t
mind having a lot of abortions.
Democrats were defeated by the
very constituency they thought they
were supporting: women. While prochoice male candidates thought they
could win the women’s vote by chanting
the “war on women” mantra, it was a
record number of pro-life women who
won House and Senate seats.
Mia Love, the first-ever elected
black Republican woman, is pro-life.
The youngest person ever elected to
Congress is a New York woman, and
you guessed it: She is pro-life.
In a 2013 NBC News/ Wall Street
Journal poll, 45 percent say abortion
should be legal most of the time, while
52 percent say it should be illegal most
of the time. But in the wake of the Roe
v. Wade decision, Americans’ opinion to
protect the rights of the unborn are
stymied.
However, voters are electing pro-life
legislators at the state level who are
challenging the Supreme Court. Since
2012, they have passed many of their
own regulations. And on Nov. 4, Tennessee voters approved a pro-life measure that clarifies that their state constitution cannot be interpreted to secure an unlimited right to abortion.
As more states are forced to enact
abortion restrictions and regulations,
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more Democratic state parties are
losing control of state legislatures.
Note to our fellow Democrats: twothirds of state legislatures are now
controlled by that other party that has
an anti-abortion platform.
The youngest woman to ever become a West Virginia state legislator,
Saira Blair, is pro-life. And we can’t
be shocked that highly funded celebrity candidates like pro-choice Sandra
Fluke and Wendy Davis couldn’t win.
The party with the pro-life plank is
getting younger. Several years ago,
upon witnessing hundreds of thousands of anti-abortion marchers in
Washington, NARAL President Nancy
Keenan told Newsweek, “There are so
many of them, and they are so young.”
In 2015, there will be only 10 Democratic senators or governors who are
the same age as or younger than
President Obama (53), compared with
two dozen Republican senators and
governors.
Patricia Amato is founder of Democrats for Life of New York. Fred Amato is a former Democratic Monroe
County legislator.
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ized abortion allows wome
mothers by choice, not by
Let’s face it, birth contr
foolproof and sex educatio
widely available. Mistakes
Abortion is needed as a ba
It is not an exaggeration
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mit to education, work, rel
or pursue lifelong goals.
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think carefully about what
bring a child into the world
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After all, many women hav
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women are unintended and
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vate is because the anti-ab
movement has successfull
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