The DNC is right on this one. Their website is for promoting the Party’s platform and DFL are devisive to that platform. Their beliefs go directly opposite the Party line, so have no place on the Party website. Do pro-choice Republicans have a special link on the GOP’s website? I’d be surprised to find they did and I’d believe just as strongly that the Party was in error if they gave them one.

I believe the Dems are in error by NOT being inclusive as advertized. I told my sister who is a life long Dem that you can not be a Dem Predisential Candiate unless you are pro-Abortion. She is now a Republican. So let the Dems stick to their unpopular principles.

As the story points out, the DNC’s website links to all sorts of organizations that seek to change its platform on several issues. But I’m fine with their choosing to single out pro-lifers for mistreatment. A slim majority is now pro-life depending on how the question is phrased. As genetics and medical research push identity and viability closer to conception, the Dems will find themselves in an increasingly absurd and untenable position on abortion, and they’ll pay for it. They will never be able to buck the abortion industry’s influence because its cash is critical to the Dems’ survival. They’re toast.

I just wanted to point out in this post how hypocritical they are. When they think no one is looking in them, they’re utterly intolerant of anyone who doesn’t tow the party line on abortion.

Many staunchly pro-life Democrats that I know do not feel as if the Democratic Party is intolerant of them. Quite the opposite. They feel as if taking an opposition position with the Democratic Party line on abortion will certainly be tolerated (if not accepted) much more than if they were pro-life Republicans who bucked the Republican party line on a variety of other issues. Perhaps the ideological discipline of the GOP is a good thing at one level, but I’d much prefer the greater breathing space for dissent that I believe one can find more readily in the Democratic party.

Could that be why the Bush Cabinet contains a whole slew of pro-choicers, while Clinton’s contained no pro-lifers?

Sorry, Jimmy. No sale.

I’m with Kevin, Jimmy. If you could, you should ask the late Bob Casey how tolerant the Dems were of his pro-life views. Or you might wonder why a whole bunch of state level Dems—Bill Clinton and Al Gore, to name two—switched from pro-life to choice once they decided to run for national office.

All I know is that there are many pro-life Democrats in my neck of the woods - heck, even in my own, large extended family. They don’t feel unwelcomed or persecuted by the Democratic party because of their pro-life positions.

Saying that one needs to be pro-choice to be electable on the democratic ticket at the national level is not to say that pro-lifers aren’t welcomed in the party and that this diversity of opinion on abortion is not accepted.

All it basically tells me is that there are certain sine-qua-nons for national election, which are true for Republican hopefuls at the national level as well as for Democrats, and this fact wouldn’t diminish the “diversity” of opinion on such subjects within the rank-and-file of either party, would it?

Just look at their behavior, Jimmy. Sure they’re happy to have rank-and-file pro-lifers around—anything that helps them win elections. But you can’t carry that stand beyond state-level politics. You certainly can’t carry it to the Supreme Court, where the Dems have a declared litmus test against any pro-life candidates. You can’t speak about it at their conventions, and they won’t even link a pro-life Dem site from their own site. Further, party rhetoric routinely casts pro-lifers as out of the mainstream, when in fact a majority of women (!) is now pro-life.

They’re intolerant. They don’t practice what they preach.

Jimmy, the problem with Dem. pro-Lifers is that they will get along to go along. What part of “The DNC has links to over 270 organizations on its “Links” page, including 7 pro-abortion organizations. There are no links to pro-life organizations.” is even vaguely inclusive to thought challenging the now-central DNC requirement that all candidates for national office (elected and appointed) be pro-abortion.