If You Are Truly Pro-Life, You’d Vote Democrat. [View all]

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If You Are Truly Pro-Life, You’d Vote Democrat

It’s 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 don’t 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 Right’s 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