It is good to see abortion getting attention that it deserves in the midterm elections and on secular websites such as Politico. Two articles are in their front page today. The first one tells of the pro life Dems formerly supported and in good standing who caved to the administration on Healthcare and covered themselves with the fig leaf Executive Order.
The headline says it all......
Health vote haunts anti-abortion Democrats:
Now,
SBA List is engaged in a multimillion-dollar attack on its former
allies, replete with bus tours and billboards alleging that members
“voted for taxpayer-funded abortion.” The group invested $1.5 million in
its “Votes Have Consequences” bus tour in August, targeting
anti-abortion Democrats who supported health reform. Just last week, SBA
List spent $55,000 on 32 billboards dotting the districts of three
vulnerable Democrats.
On
the other hand, Democrats for Life of America, the group most fiercely
devoted to defending anti-abortion Democrats, has been essentially
inactive this
election cycle.
Its political action committee brought in $2,431 and spent a paltry
$308, according to Federal Election Commission filings. DFLA has made no
contributions to federal candidates.
Many
of the anti-abortion Democrats are campaigning in an uneasy no-man’s
land: out of line with the party platform but with little support from
the country’s most influential anti-abortion groups.
We’re
hoping to hold our members, but I’m afraid we may lose some,” said
Kristen Day, executive director of DFLA. “It’s partly the political
climate and then the health care bill definitely being used against
these members.”
The second front page story if about Palin.
Abortion is an "essential" issue for midterm election voters, former Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin declared Tuesday
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