Posted on 01/31/2019 7:18:41 PM PST by Kaslin
In the wake of an eruption of backlash toward Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who recently advocated for late term and post-birth abortion, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi refused to comment on Northam’s controversial sentiments. Gov. Northam, previously a physician, endorsed a bill in the Virginia Legislature introduced by Del. Kathy Tran, that would effectively allow late-term abortions for any reason, even once the mother is in labor.
Despite retroactive attempts at clarification from both Gov. Northam and Del. Tran, both lawmakers are on video saying exactly what the pro-life coalition is criticizing them for:
Heartbreaking... This isn't in New York, this isn't in California, this happened just this week right here in Virginia. @VAHouseDems proposed legislation to provide abortions up to just seconds before that precious child takes their first breath. Watch for yourself. pic.twitter.com/AxgPVyI6kU— VA House GOP (@vahousegop) January 29, 2019
Just when you thought it couldn’t get more extreme than allowing abortion up to the moment of birth, Gov. Northam goes here. Watch the video. pic.twitter.com/IhE0ZwcUs9— VA House GOP (@vahousegop) January 30, 2019
When asked about Governor Northam’s radical comments, Speaker Pelosi claimed ignorance of the sentiments:
Unless Pelosi taped her eyes and ears shut since yesterday, she knows exactly what VA Gov. Northam said about abortion. Even she knows that stance dooms Democrats in 2020.
Watch her refuse to address it and then move on as fast as she can pic.twitter.com/RMWrBAjef1— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) January 31, 2019
Despite the Democratic Party at-large repeatedly claiming to not be fans of late term abortion, the pair of similar bills passed in Virginia and New York do not help their case. As a whole, the party leadership hides behind the talking points of ‘woman’s choice’ and ‘rare circumstances’ while they receive millions from Planned Parenthood and NARAL who encourage women to ‘shout their abortion.’ Indeed, the financial backing of these groups, coupled with the electoral advantage of appeasing their progressive followers, have dually incentivized Democrats to abandon their once-reasonable stance for a far-left ideology surrounding abortion.
At one time, Democrats embraced pro-choice in its truest meaning. The party viewed abortion as a solemn choice for women in uncomfortable or unforeseen circumstances; most iconically, President Bill Clinton’s ‘Safe, legal and rare’ ideology rang-true with Democrats for decades.
Speaker Pelosi’s direct avoidance of commenting on Governor Northam’s extreme comments highlights the Democratic Party’s radical 180 degree spin on abortion. Not only has the party moved further left on this issue than any traditional Democrat would have ever thought, but Democrats have moved abortion to the top of their priority list.
As Speaker Pelosi more than likely knows, the American public is not on the side of the Democrats’ new stance on abortion, per a 2019 Knight of Columbus/Marist poll:
“Three in four Americans (75 percent) say abortion should be limited to – at most – the first three months of pregnancy. This includes most of those who identify as Republicans (92 percent), independents (78 percent) and Democrats (60 percent). It also includes more than six in 10 (61 percent) who identify as pro-choice...By a double-digit margin, a majority of all Americans oppose any taxpayer funding of abortion (54 percent to 39 percent),” the poll found.
With 2020 on the horizon, these radical abortion bills will be a crucial issue that Democrats cannot avoid; every candidate can and should be asked to defend or condemn late-term abortion. And as the Democratic Party should have learned after Hillary Clinton’s landslide loss in 2016, extremism and identity politics do not resonate with the average American, and will not give them a White House win, no matter the popularity of President Trump.
What say you, San Fran Nan?
Of course she did, she doesn’t want to say “Yeah I support full term baby murder, that’s our Democrat platform”
“I don’t know what he said” = “I don’t recall...”
Why didn’t the reporter tell her what the governor said and then ask her for her comment.
Stinker Pelosi has spoken, God is pleased with the Party of Murdering the Unborn.
Democrats should be pinned to the wall on this stuff - if Republicans and conservative commentators have to justify or refute Trump’s most provocative statements, ‘rats should have to defend what their own say too.....
Heard that one on the news — she really ran for cover when that question hit. She lied like a rug -— and ran for cover like the cockroach that she is....
And she had five children. There is no excuse left.
The Botoxed B*tch claims to be Catholic. SPIT.
Bingo! This is a “catholic?” This evil old wizened woman and virago should be in an insane asylum.
The media allows her to get away with it.
She don’t have to say nothin’!
The media will make her case for her.
Same for all the Dems.
................. Pelosi and the Democrats are waiting for a bunch of new polls to come in from their base to tell them what they should think. In the mean time they will skirt all controversial issues .....
The next Supreme Court Justice hearings will be a good place to expose the Democrats’ extreme position. Hopefully, very soon.
She’s as Catholic as Andrew Mengele Cuomo, don’t ya know?
Rats are mostly all evil. Before yesterday, I couldn’t imagine a pediatrician talking like Northam did.
I thought the Virginia bill didn't pass and become law.
This bill was rejected by a subcommittee and WILL NOT become law. Check the third paragraph here.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who recently advocated for late term and post-birth abortion
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“Post birth abortion”??? That is INFANTICIDE. Northam & the Demon Rats may try, but they can’t walk this back. Northam sold his soul to Planned Murder for $2 million and now his fake “moderate” mask has been ripped off & what is underneath is horrific.
"Well, if a fetus is delivered and then dies for whatever reason, it has a birth record. Eighteen years later we go and harvest their name from the database and register them to vote. Of course, they register as Democrats. Then we vote for them in the way we know they would have wanted to vote. So it is all good."
The thin fine lines above her upper lip.
Small facial wrinkles?
Time for Botox.
She missed shaving this morning?
Her right upper lip; Small black hairs are faintly seen, exposed.
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