Pro-Life Democrats
August 29th, 2008 at 06:59am Mark Noonan
Showing you can be liberal in a lot of things and yet remain committed to the intrinsic, God-given value of each human life:
The Democrats for Life town hall meeting on Wednesday in Denver, in addition to policy proposals and cultural analysis, examined the consequences of abortion, naming the abortion-related risks of domestic violence, infertility, and cancer as reasons to advocate abortion reduction programs.
Colorado State Senator Debbie Stafford, a former Republican with a background in religious ministry and domestic violence counseling, discussed the relation of domestic violence to abortion while Rev. Clenard Childress, pastor of the New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey and president of the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), discussed abortion’s devastating effects in the African-American community.
“No woman will abort unless she has a sense of abandonment and rejection,” Stafford said. Domestic violence doesn’t “just happen,” and pregnant women are 25 to 50 percent more likely to be abused than a non-pregnant woman, she explained.
Stafford added that sometimes a woman undergoes an abortion just to please her partner.
“When a pregnant woman involved in an abusive or destructive relationship finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy, one of the ways that she believes she can maintain what we call the ‘traumatic-emotional bond’ with her abuser is to allow her baby to be aborted.”
Further, she has discovered that “men hurt too,” and can come “literally unglued” because their pregnant partner used the possible abortion of the baby as a “wedge” between them or as a way to punish the man.
“It took two people to create that child,” she said, noting that both men and women in abusive relationships need support.
Rev. Childress discussed the negative consequences of abortion especially as related to the African-American community, claiming abortion affects African-Americans “more than any other ethnic group in the country.” He cited CDC statistics showing that one in two pregnant African-American women choose to abort.
The African-American birth rate, he said, is at 1.97 children per women, less than the 2.1 replacement rate. African-American women now lead the country in miscarriages due to “using abortion as a contraceptive,” which weakens the uterine lining.
“When they want to have a child, they cannot,” Rev. Childress explained with sadness.
Margaret Sanger - the racist, eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood - woud be pleased; her plan is working to perfection; black people are breeding less, thanks to abortion. What still staggers the mind is that black Americans have a strong belief that GOPers are racist and that liberal Democrats are on their side…when what liberals are really doing is destroying the black family, and butchering unborn black children. We won’t break this in 2008 - with a completely understandable sense of pride that one of their own has risen to the top, black Americans will go nearly universally Democrat in November…but, win or lose, the opportunity is there for both the GOP to gain black adherents in later years, as well as for black Democrats to force their party away from their hateful, despairing - and functionally racist - attachment to abortion on demand.
Future generations of Americans will look back at our time and stand aghast that we, once upon a time, allowed tens of millions of our fellow Americans to be murdered before they were born. As today we puzzle over how some Americans once upon a time considered it good to enslave other Americans so, too, will our grandchildren puzzle over our tolerance of a practice which is never necessay and always harmful to two human beings - the murdered child, and the violated mother. And I pray that what will really start the ball rolling towards an end to legal abortion is the recoil of honest liberals away from the pro-abortion position…a growing understanding even on the left that each human life is precious in and of itself.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, DNC08, Democrats, Life Issues, Popular Culture, RNC08, Republicans, Social Issues
16 Comments
1. Pro-Life Democrats : insu&hellip | August 29th, 2008 at 7:02 am
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2. Pro-Life Democrats : busi&hellip | August 29th, 2008 at 7:13 am
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3. sunrunner | August 29th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Pro-Life Democrats
August 29th, 2008 at 06:59am Mark Noonan
Mark, you got the title correct on this one. The Republican myth would have you believe only they can stop abortion when in reality abortions have increased under their misguided policies. For six years conservatives held the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court. What do have to show for it; a sexual abstinence program that has left our youth ignorant in matters of sex.
“We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.” Senator Obama August 28, 2008
4. bagni | August 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am
markie mark
what?
no orbital observations about blowbama’s speech?
so out of cosmic character for you?
5. extramedium | August 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
“her plan is working to perfection; black people are breeding less, thanks to abortion.”
“when what liberals are really doing is destroying the black family, and butchering unborn black children.”
You know, for a conservative, you have a pretty paternalistic view on this - I’d even go so far as to say you talk about black folks like they were cows on a farm.
How is it that black people have any less free will than the rest of us? Are they too stupid to make choices for themselves with regard to abortions? Are the liberals you refer to who are doing this all white? You make a pretty preposterous statement here. Are you sure you want to take it that far?
6. neocon | August 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am
and the Supreme Court. - sunrunner
ROTFLMAO
Are they too stupid to make choices for themselves with regard to abortions? - extra
No, but obviously you think they are completely unable to do succeed in life without government help, or the Democratic party.
So what do you really think of them?
bags,
blowbama’s speech??
I couldn’t have said it any better.
7. Retired Spook | August 29th, 2008 at 8:37 am
BREAKING NEWS!
Fox News is reporting that McCain’s VP pick IS NOT either Pawlenty or Romney. Looks like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a distinct possibility.
8. neocon | August 29th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I sure wanted Romney, did not want Pawlenty, and now think Palin might be the perfect choice.
Adding a woman to the ticket might be a brilliant political move.
9. js | August 29th, 2008 at 8:54 am
palin would pull a ton of clintons followers…
10. js | August 29th, 2008 at 9:04 am
it took 35 years for abortion to get where it is…anyone who thinks that can be undone in 6 years is dreaming…
and i disagree with the idea that no woman will abort unless she has a “sense of abandonment or rejection”….thats nothing more than rhetoric and cheap excuses….the truth is that just knowing the option is there removes them from taking responsibility for thier action, and promotes behavior that leads to abortion unwanted children….the ultimate fail safe….abortion on demand promotes irresponsible behavior…if women knew that there was no option for abortion….i would suggest that 50-80% of the 50 million pregnancies that resulted in abortion in the last 35 years probably would never have taken place….because individuals would be much more careful not to get pregnant in the first place, knowing the full weight of the consequence and thier responsibility ….behavioral modification would be almost instantaneous if abortion on demand was curbed to medical necessity or caused by criminal acts.
11. William Teach | August 29th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Extramedium, why not go look up what Sanger stood for, what her views were? Because she did say and write nasty racist things, and was all for reducing the Black population.
12. Rich | August 29th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Can we have a thread on Palin?
13. clark smith | August 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
a completely understandable sense of pride that one of their own has risen to the top
Dr. King’s Dream will never be realized as long as this ‘our people’ vs. ‘their people’ mentality persists.
14. extramedium | August 29th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
William,
I could look that up, but it wouldn’t have any relevance to my question for Mark. Does he think that black people have some sort of unique exemption from personal responsibility when they have abortions? Are they less able to make decisions for themselves? Why is it that Liberals are butchering those babies, instead of the mothers themselves? It just sounds rather un-conservative to put the responsibility on government.
15. New Conservative | August 29th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Go to my site and grade McCain’s VP pick A to F.
http://thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/
16. majoriot | August 30th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Is it really true that the value of human life is only god given? Please explain.