Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart.com
Big Government
26 Aug 2012
Former Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) and other pro-life Democrats plan to issue a formal challenge to the hold that Planned Parenthood and NARAL have on the Democratic Party when it meets for its convention in Charlotte on September 4th.
Stupak, who became known as the lawmaker who traded his vote for Obamacare for an executive order that “symbolically” banned taxpayer funding of abortion in Obamacare, has helped to organize Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), a group that asserts the Democratic party must be more “diverse” and “inclusive” on the issue of abortion.
Kristen Day, executive director of DFLA, told CNS News that a challenge to the 2012 Democratic platform was necessary because the party has totally shut out pro-life views. “The draft platform released… is greatly weakened by its failure to recognize the party’s pro-life constituency,” Day said. She added that roughly one-third of Democrats are pro-life…
…Despite Stupak’s comment, groups such as National Right to Life Committee charged that Stupak and DFLA were simply making “another pathetic attempt… to put some pancake make-up over some of the uglier aspects of Obamacare.” Douglas Johnson, legislative director of National Right to Life, observed that Stupak’s “letter asserts that the ObamaCare law preserves the Hyde Amendment, when, in fact, the ObamaCare contains multiple abortion-expanding provisions that represent a huge break from the principles of the Hyde Amendment.”…
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