Posted on 02/14/2020 8:13:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Democrat 2020 hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said on national television this week that there is room for pro-lifers in the Democrat Party.
On the day of the New Hampshire Primary, Klobuchar appeared on ABC’s “The View” where she was asked by co-host Meghan McCain about whether “there’s room for pro-life Democrats to vote for you.”
The question came days after fellow 2020 hopeful Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders declared that being pro-choice “is an absolutely essential part of being a Democrat.”
Klobuchar, a 59-year-old attorney who is also a member of the United Church of Christ, responded first by affirming that she is “pro-choice” and has “always been pro-choice.” This can be verified by her voting record in support of taxpayer-funded abortion and her support for Planned Parenthood.
“But I believe we are a big tent party and there are pro-life Democrats and they are part of our party,” Klobuchar said. “I think we need to build a big tent. I think we need to bring people in instead of shutting them out. That also includes independents right here in New Hampshire and moderate Republicans.”
Klobuchar surprised many Tuesday when she placed third in the New Hampshire presidential primary election and won the most support among voters who attend religious services weekly, according to exit polls.
Klobuchar has earned a 100 percent grade from the lobbying arm of the nation’s largest abortion corporation, Planned Parenthood.
To earn a 100 percent grade from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, members of Congress must “always vote with Planned Parenthood.”
Klobuchar vowed in December to reverse pro-life policies instituted by the Trump administration within the first 100 days in office.
The Trump administration has taken several steps to end taxpayer-funding of organizations that perform or promote abortion domestically and overseas, including banning Title X family planning funds from going to clinics that refer or provide abortions.
Last year, Planned Parenthood left the Title X program rather than have clinics stop promoting or performing abortions.
“In the first 100 days I will remove Trump’s ‘gag rules,’ which I can do with no need of congressional involvement,” Klobuchar told The Guardian in an interview. “I will reverse funding decisions right away, and make sure that we only nominate judges for confirmation who are consistent with [Roe v. Wade].”
The question has been raised for years about whether there is room for pro-life Democrats in the party.
Democrat National Committee Chair Tom Perez made headlines in 2017 when he said the party would withhold support from any candidates who did not consider themselves to be pro-choice. That statement was criticized by a number of prominent Democrats such as then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The head of the Congressional Campaign Committee said months later that there is no “litmus test” on abortion. Currently, there are two Democrat senators considered to be pro-life. Former pro-life Democrat Joe Donnelly of Indiana was defeated by Republican Mike Braun in the 2018 election.
Although Sanders said that being pro-choice is absolutely essential to being a Democrat, he received pushback in 2017 after he campaigned on behalf of a mayoral candidate in Nebraska who supported a bill that would have required doctors to notify women of their right to an ultrasound before an abortion.
Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who came in second in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, reiterated his support for a late-term abortion last week while speaking on “The View.”
“[M]y point is that it shouldn’t be up to a government official to draw the line,” Buttigieg said. “It should be up to the woman who is confronted with the choice.”
Buttigieg has been criticized for citing the Bible in an attempt to defend his support for late-term abortion by saying there are parts of Scripture “that talk about how life begins with the breath.”
Elected mayor in 2011, Buttigieg was in office during the time abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer operated the Women's Pavilion abortion clinic in South Bend where he injured several women during abortion procedures.
In a previous comment to CP, Rose, founder of the pro-life group Live Action, accused Buttigieg of having “protected” Klopfer who performed thousands of abortions at that clinic.
As long as they don’t try to stop abortion, they belong.
Amy is trying to find the center lane in a party that has gone off the left shoulder of the road.
Of course! All dummies who believe in the sanctity of human life can vote for those who slaughter the innocent and then CHARGE THEM for it. See how it feels to have your teeth kicked in by the party of slavery and segregation! You will come to LOVE Big Brother!!!
Trouble is, she crashed into the median.
If you’re pro-life, Democrat partisans will call you a Nazi.
Anyone who takes the issue seriously will find Klob’s assertions ludicrous. Everyone knows that Democrats are petal-to-the-metal on the issue, they’re even talking about killing off born-alive abortion survivors like it’s someone else’s choice.
She is only moderately anti-Life right?
Fake News.
Both Amy and Buttplug are followers and will do what they are told.
If they are told to pass a law which arrests and executes all Republicans, they will sign the bill.
CP is filled with Obama supporters masked as moderates.
Yep. with Plugs and Princess Pocasocialist in spectacular death spirals, the Dems are looking for a "moderate" alternative to CummuBernie and and Mayor Socialist. Klobuchar is working furiously to become that candidate, and she has just enough charisma that they might be able to sell her as the Anti-Hillary Hillary.
Mini-Mike is nothing more than a sideshow right now, and I think he will at best go 3rd party and really cause a Dem disaster, or he will make a lot of noise and flame out spectacularly down the road.
The Dems may end up deciding Amy is the best of a bad lot.
She’s creating just enough wiggle room for Communist Catholic Priests to tell their flocks it’s okay to vote Democrat.
The thing that impresses me about Amy is, she lies with a straight face. She pulls that off better than anyone in politics. She's driving hard for the disaffected (sexist) Warren supporters and for the dismayed Biden and Yang supporters. In the long run, it won't work, but it's fun to watch.
To be a believable presidential candidate a person must have extensive experience of the federal government or have been a state governor, or held a high military command, or achieved a great deal in private-sector activity. (The only two in the last category are Wendell Willkie, the Republican nominee in 1940, and Donald Trump). Pete Buttigieg checks none of those boxes; he has been a snappy and interesting place to park a vote, but he is about to walk off the dock and won’t be seen again for years, if ever, in national politics.
Lying hooknose bi_ch.
I don't think she's saying that Pro Lifers should be able to hold office as long as they keep quiet. She's just saying that the Dems will be willing to accept their votes in elections.
There is room in the Democrat Party for Pro-Lifers exactly one day EVERY FOUR YEARS! On election day! Otherwise you can take your pro-life position and stick it where the sun don’t shine. The Democrats are in the business of taking the life of un-born children for any reason, any time! Take that to the bank!
Pro life needs to be changed.
It should be “Anti-Baby Murder”.
I have no problem squashing a bug and no problem with animal slaughter so I can have my meat.
I eat fine if a monster is put to death in the gas chamber.
I am not pro all life.
I am “Anti-Baby Murder”
Pro life is too sanitary, too clean.
People should feel the sting of what they are allowing or ignoring
Baby murder.
Pro-Life and the Democrat Party are mutually exclusive. Anyone who claims to be Pro-Life cannot be so while in the ‘rat party. The main way political parties affect the abortion question is at the SCOTUS level in order to defend or overturn Roe v Wade. ALL ‘Rat presidents will ALWAYS nominate pro-abortion SCOTUS justices. Therefore a Pro-Life person who votes democrat is a fool who is supporting abortion. Makes no difference if they are made to feel welcome by Klobuchar or any other ‘rat.
It is a desperate attempt to appeal to rat Catholics and others who need to find something/anything to justify staying Democrats. I know a few and they contort themselves into mental pretzels to justify staying loyal to a party led by baby killers.
A pro life democrat is a democrat so deluded as to be trivially insignificant
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