The American Spectator has a pretty good article on Pro-Life Democrats and particularly Democrats for Life. I met Kristen Day, along with the leaders of Democrats for Life at the DFL event at the March for Life 2 years ago. Day is a particularly bright and committed Catholic pro-lifer as well as a true blue (or is that yellow?) Democrat. DFL is in good hands with her leadership. However, the question remains as to how you spread this message, especially to young people who are just becoming politically active?
Two sections stood out to me:
Democrats for Life of America, Inc., a pro-life group, had hoped to have one of their own speak at the convention this year. Instead, they were given the brush-off.They were clearly disappointed. But they've come to expect that kind of treatment ever since the late Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey was blocked from giving a pro-life speech in 1992. For all its rhetoric about inclusiveness, the party shuns its own pro-life wing.
And yet these pro-life Democrats say they're not going anywhere. Former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Raymond Flynn said they would save the party's soul -- and perhaps it's life as well.
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MTV's Rock the Vote released a poll Monday that found that 41% of first-time voters, an overwhelming plurality, think abortion should be legal only "in the most extreme cases."Another 13% want it outlawed entirely. Overall 54% of first-time voters lean pro-life.
"It's more bad news for the pro-choice movement," said Hans Riemer, Rock the Vote's political director.
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