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LA Times: "How the Democratic Platform Betrays Millions of the Party Faithful"

Kristen Day is the head of Democrats for Life; Camosy teaches at Fordham U. Excerpts below the link -

... the platform calls for the repeal of the Hyde and Helms amendments, which prevent taxpayer funds from being used to pay for abortions. This would force those who object to abortion to contribute to what we believe would be government-funded killing, and it would eradicate policies that have already saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

The 2016 Democratic platform is a flat-out betrayal of millions of Democrats, undoing policies that have kept us in the party working toward common progressive goals on a host of other issues.

Here are three other ways the 2016 platform betrays Democrats like us:

• It calls for repeal of all “federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion.” Support for abortion rights in this platform is deemed “unequivocal.”
• The platform asserts that “reproductive health” — which includes access to “safe and legal abortion” — is “core to women’s, men’s, and young people’s health and wellbeing.”
• A commitment to religious liberty in the context of abortion, which was included in the 2012 platform, has been removed.

U.S. abortion law (which permits abortion for any reason until viability, about 22 to 23 weeks) already makes many progressive countries in Europe (which set their threshold for abortion at 12 to 13 weeks) look like pro-life radicals. Now the Democratic platform pushes the party to roll back even the very modest abortion regulations currently on the books.

And removing even a nod toward “religious liberty” from the platform puts Democrats at fundamental odds with the many religious organizations whose mission is nonviolence and protection of the most vulnerable.

In the 2008 presidential primary campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton said abortion should be safe, legal and rare. “And by rare,” Clinton emphasized, “I mean rare.” Yet her 2016 platform team has approved provisions that make access to abortion crucial to the well-being of every single person on the planet.

The Democratic Party's abortion stances have already caused many to leave the party, and many more will drop out because of the platform wording. The percentage of extreme abortion rights advocates is increasing in the party, but only because the total number of Democrats has shrunk to its lowest level since the Hoover administration.

Bishop Thomas Tobin to Tim Kaine: You Can’t be Catholic and Pro-Abortion

The bishop, from Rhode Island, posting on his facebook page. The facebook link is below.

Catholic Bishop to Tim Kaine: You Can’t be Catholic and Pro-Abortion

LifeNews.com has extensively profiled the pro-abortion position of Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate Tim Kaine. Now, a Catholic bishops is going after the pro-abortion Democrat, saying that he can’t reconcile his Catholic faith with abortion.

Bishops Thomas Tobin of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, posted a message on Facebook that was so popular it received over 1,000 shares:

VP Pick, Tim Kaine, a Catholic?

Democratic VP choice, Tim Kaine, has been widely identified as a Roman Catholic. It is also reported that he publicly supports “freedom of choice” for abortion, same-sex marriage, gay adoptions, and the ordination of women as priests. All of these positions are clearly contrary to well-established Catholic teachings; all of them have been opposed by Pope Francis as well.

Senator Kaine has said, “My faith is central to everything I do.” But apparently, and unfortunately, his faith isn’t central to his public, political life.

The Virginia politician is on record as trying to have it both ways — saying he is both a “traditional Catholic” and a strong supporter of abortion. Kaine has a pro-abortion record and the potential Clinton running mate is not following anyone. As LifeNews previously reported, Kaine said he is a “strong supporter of Roe v. Wade”  despite supposedly being a “traditional Catholic.”

“I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should make these decisions and government shouldn’t intrude,” Kaine said. “I’m a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade and women being able to make these decisions. In government, we have enough things to worry about. We don’t need to make people’s reproductive decisions for them.”

That wasn’t the first time Kaine has attempted to moderate his pro-abortion viewpoint. In an interview with Meet the Press, Tim Kaine, who may be chosen as the pro-abortion candidate’s VP, tried to mask his radical abortion views.

Leading pro-life groups know Kaine is pro-abortion.

 

Catholic League on Tim Kaine as Clinton VP

A purported Catholic; save the wolves not the babies

The Catholic League website is down right now so we cannot link to the press release. We have posted it in it's entirety.

Kaine Wants to Save the Lobo
 

July 25, 2016

Bill Donohue comments on Sen. Tim Kaine's pro-life record:
 
Tim Kaine wants to save the lobo, but not the kids.
 
I confess I had no idea what a lobo was until I looked it up—it's a Mexican grey wolf. Tim says we are running out of them (he does not say whether we should build a wall to save them). How do I know? Because the Defender of Wildlife Action Fund gave him a 91 percent rating in 2015, and a 100 percent rating in 2013; on the front page of its website the #1 cause is "Don't Let the Lobos Go Extinct."
 
The Defender of Wildlife Action Fund is also worried about saving the eggs of the bald eagle, a goal that Tim no doubt shares (as do I). What about human eggs? Tim has no interest in protecting them. How do I know? Because he merits a 100 percent rating from both NARAL and Planned Parenthood, and they support abortion-on-demand.
 
The Washington Post calls Tim "A Pope Francis Catholic." But the pope's position on abortion would receive a 0 from NARAL and Planned Parenthood. The pope also supports marriage, properly understood.
 
In a Polling Company survey we commissioned of Catholics last year, we learned that 61 percent of Catholics reported that abortion should not be permitted in all or most instances; the figure for practicing Catholics was higher. That means Tim is not representative of most Catholics on this issue.
 
Tim likes gay marriage. How do I know? Because he received a 100 percent rating from the radical gay group, the Human Rights Campaign. Once again, Tim is out of step: our survey found that 58 percent of Catholics think marriage should be between a man and a woman.
 
If Tim were to treat unborn children the way he treats lobos, and acknowledge the obvious—marriage was meant for the only two people who can create a family—he would improve his standing among Catholics. As it is, his positions make him an outlier.
 

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Women's Equality Day Reformed in White Plains, August 5, 2016, 12 Noon to 1:30 p.m.

 Hudson Valley Coalition for Life, Box 494, Ossining, NY 10562

[email protected]

                                     Press Release      

July 20, 2016

TO:       Westchester and Putnam County media – radio, television, and newsprint

             The media are invited to cover the event!

RE:        Women’s Equality Day Reformed - Friday, August 5, 2016 in White Plains, NY;

             Ceremony 12 Noon, Sharp! to 1:30 p.m. Light refreshments follow.  

Ceremony to be held at the Westchester County Michaelian Building, 8^th floor large Conference Room,

148 Martine Avenue & Court Street, White Plains.

 

This year, the 96^th Anniversary of women’s voting rights, a woman is a major party nominee for President of the United States, but what woman and for what does she stand?

This 2016 Women’s Equality Day Reformed theme is Let Pro-Life Feminist Voices Speak on Life’s Beginning and Life’s End! The day will challenge the political tactics of the status quo: exposing efforts to silence free speech by shutting down speech in the classroom and on our college campuses; attempting to silence opposing citizen groups via manipulation (IRS scandal); exposing the legislative vote by “progressives” against conscience protections for all; speaking against standards and medical oversight for abortion clinics for the protection of women, and promoting physician-assisted and other-assisted suicide under the guise of compassionate care for the dying.

Women’s Equality Day Reformed will hold its 15^th annual commemoration of the 19^th Amendment’s granting of women’s voting rights August 26, 1920. The day’s events will focus on the dignity of all human life and the pivotal role women play in society’s understanding of the needs of the most vulnerable among us: pregnant women, the child in the womb, the frail, sick and elderly. Maria McFadden Maffucci of Mamaroneck is the 2016 Woman of the Year and recipient of this year’s Mott-Stanton-Anthony Award! She is President of The Human Life Foundation, Inc., and Editor of The Human Life Review.

The day’s Keynote speaker will be Norine R. DiCarlo. R.N., MA, former Assistant Director of Nursing in the Department of Psychiatry at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx who will speak on “Hope and Ambivalence in the Suicidal Patient”.

Limited capacity and security check with photo ID. Seek long-term, 3-hour parking nearby to avoid having to leave the ceremony. For additional details call Regina 914.739.8256; Brigid 914.271.4598 or Judy 914.329.5163; or email the Committee at [email protected].

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