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David Brooks Urges Fellow Democrats to ‘Rethink’ Extreme Abortion Position
Brietbart ^ | February 3, 2018 | Dr. Susan Berry

Posted on 02/03/2018 6:42:26 PM PST by EdnaMode

The New York Times columnist David Brooks writes in a “memo” to Democratic Party leaders that their support for abortion on demand up until birth is hurting their party.

Pointing out the failure of the Senate to muster 60 votes to protect unborn babies from abortion past the fifth month of pregnancy, Brooks notes, “I kept wondering: How much is our position on late-term abortions hurting us?”

Taking his readers back through time before Roe v. Wade, when the Supreme Court created a right to abortion – though, as Alan Dershowitz has noted, none ever existed in the Constitution – Brooks observes that some right to life groups, including the National Catholic Welfare Conference, once also embraced progressive causes, such as a “right to collective bargaining.”

Roe v. Wade, however, polarized the abortion debate, Brooks writes, as the pro-life movement gained momentum.

“Without pro-life voters, Ronald Reagan never would have been elected,” he explains. “Without single-issue voters who wanted pro-life judges, there would never have been a President Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: 2018issues; abortion; brooks; davidbrooks; democraticparty; democratparty; democrats; dncstrategy; proaborts; prolife
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Brooks' full article at the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/opinion/abortion-democrats-compromise.html
1 posted on 02/03/2018 6:42:26 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

The Clintons tried this with the false “legal, safe, and rare” minor back-pedal that the left ditched quickly in a quiet backlash whereby the left’s real stance is “abortion on demand” and infanticide for botched late term abortions.


2 posted on 02/03/2018 6:48:55 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: EdnaMode

“We have to be manipulative chameleons.”

Their current alliance of the aggrieved isn’t quite big enough.


3 posted on 02/03/2018 6:49:04 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: EdnaMode

So Brooks only cares about getting votes, rather than their support for murdering babies. He’s no better than the rest of the Democrats.


4 posted on 02/03/2018 6:49:46 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: EdnaMode

Didn’t Schumer and another Congress member HIGH FIVE the blocking of the 20 week ban?


5 posted on 02/03/2018 6:57:47 PM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: EdnaMode
Problem is that the Republicans are horrible at messaging on this issue.

All they have to do is call themselves pro-choice, in favor of states rights: That the abortion issue should be taken away from the Feds and returned to the states as it was before 1973.

Do this, and remove the tax dollars from abortion and it will kill the Dems

6 posted on 02/03/2018 7:00:44 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: EdnaMode

So abortion up to 9 months wrong, not because it’s cruel, evil and inhuman, but because it’s hurting them politically. These people have no heart or compassion.


7 posted on 02/03/2018 7:34:12 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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The Democrat Thug Party — the party of kill.


8 posted on 02/03/2018 8:06:35 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: EdnaMode

Wait. I thought Brooks is the ‘conservative’ columnist at the NYT? Here he refers the the democrats position as ‘our’ position. How can that be the case?


9 posted on 02/03/2018 8:11:45 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: EdnaMode
"“I kept wondering: How much is our position on late-term abortions hurting us?” "

Typical dimmanazi attitude- Absolutely no concern for the life of the murdered, chopped-up and sold unborn, no concern for the soul of the murdering mommie, nothing else matters except "how many votes will this cost my side?" Says it all.

10 posted on 02/03/2018 8:22:48 PM PST by matthew fuller (Updated tagline on order.)
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To: goodnesswins

About 30 years ago Schumer was my congressman. There was a movement to have the feds pay for abortions. Mh wife and I wrote him, ptotedting being forced to pay for an act ee gound morally reprehensible and religiously a violation of our rights. He sent us a letter promising never to vote for a law that violated religious rights. Things change.


11 posted on 02/03/2018 8:26:12 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: EdnaMode

I do believe that Roe v. Wade will end up in the history books right next to the Dred Scott decision, a horrible pockmark where the court declared some people as being somehow less than human and thus entitled to no rights that was never accepted, and led to endless civil discord until overturned.


12 posted on 02/03/2018 8:38:02 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: EdnaMode

When did Brooks become a Democrat? I thought he was (just barely) a Republican.


13 posted on 02/03/2018 8:44:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
All they have to do is call themselves pro-choice, in favor of states rights: That the abortion issue should be taken away from the Feds and returned to the states as it was before 1973.

This is the solution to most of the divisions in our country. STOP injecting the Federal government into things over which it has no rightful business. The Founders put the 10th Amendment there for a reason.

14 posted on 02/03/2018 8:44:26 PM PST by Terabitten (Time for the GOPe to reap the whirlwind.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Yeah I think so too.


15 posted on 02/03/2018 8:57:46 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: goodnesswins

Yeah I just read about that. They’re despicable.


16 posted on 02/03/2018 8:58:53 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Well damn him to hell. Now the unborn are political pawns for their power.


17 posted on 02/03/2018 8:59:00 PM PST by onona (Replace Googling with the word "Websearching" - You'll feel better in minutes.)
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To: EdnaMode
This is 56-year old David Brooks..she is NOT his daughter, that's his former research assistant/new 33-year old wife.


18 posted on 02/03/2018 9:20:58 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

The NY Times must have a lousy Dental Plan or David Brooks spends his spare time bonding with Beavers. (The ones who build Dams)


19 posted on 02/03/2018 9:30:59 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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To: Linda Frances

Amen!

Jeremiah 19:5.

Something this evil was not commanded nor did it ever enter God’s mind.


20 posted on 02/03/2018 10:25:44 PM PST by buffyt (I am the way the truth the light, no one comes to the Father except by ME. Jesus said...)
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