December 5, 2003
THE IRON LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (via Bruce Cleaver):
Democrats' choice (Jennifer Harper, December 5, 2003, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
With Republicans controlling the White House, both houses of Congress and a majority of governorships, Democrats are languishing. Mary Meehan thinks she knows why."In the 1970s, there was major opposition to abortion within the Democratic Party -- even after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In 1977, for example, the right-to-life movement could count on 10-20 Democratic votes in the Senate and over 100 in the House," Miss Meehan writes in Human Life Review.
"It is a great irony that Democrats supported the killing of scores of unborn children who would have grown up to be Democrats," she continued. "This may explain some of the difficulty Democrats are having in winning elections today."
This is particularly applicable in the case of gender selection abortions. As Mr. Cleaver says, it would be funny if it weren't tragic. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 5, 2003 6:47 PM
I think the real connection is that support of Roe was a wedge issue that was used to drive Catholics, who were not only pro-life but anti-communist and pro-american, out of the Democrat Party. And I mean Drive, the San Francisco D's wanted them gone and worked hard to make it so.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at December 6, 2003 1:08 AM