Democrats quandary on supporting anti-abortion party members

[PoliticAverse]

Democrats have a growing problem when it comes to abortion, one that risks alienating some of the largest progressive organizations at a time when the party needs their grassroots energy to revive itself.

Democrats still almost universally agree that a woman should have the right to choose an abortion. But they’re arguing about whether the party should fund Democratic candidates who don’t share that view.

The battle ignited recently when Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the party wouldn’t withhold funding from candidates who don’t share the party’s view on abortion.

“There is not a litmus test for Democratic candidates,” Luján told the Hill, a Washington, D.C., publication. “As we look at candidates across the country, you need to make sure you have candidates that fit the district, that can win in these districts across America.”

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[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Pro Life Stances Eliminate Women's Rights Altogether In The End.

When you are not allowed to make ALL your decisions about YOUR health care you are NOT free. The right to control your health care decisions is so basic.

[BainsBane]

2. It's not a quandary

It's an effort to center opposition to equal rights at the heart of party's national agenda.

There have been anti-choice Democrats for a long time, and the party has endorsed and funded them. What is new is elevating anti-choice to the center of national debate. Lujan made a deliberate choice to placate a contingent that has used the November defeat to take aim at the rights and political influence within the party of women and people of color.

[uppityperson]

3. If they don't support the right to chose, they are anti-choice. NOT anti-abortion.

Since the Den Party platform supports choice, they should not fund anti-choicers.

Whether a person would personally ever get an abortion or not is their personal decision. But not supporting that woman should have the right to choose an abortion? That's anti-Democratic.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Exactly!

[NurseJackie]

4. No we're not.

[4now]

5. More helpful advise from a right wing rag.

[David__77]

7. ...

[ProudLib72]

8. This

They say Luján’s statement makes little political sense at a time when women are driving the anti-Trump resistance, starting with the more than 4 million people nationwide who participated in Women’s March events in January.

Lose 4 million, pick up a couple dozen. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.