![]() Last year when Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) announced he would not support a “litmus test” on abortion for Democratic candidates, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards declared him “totally wrong.” However, while there are a number of Republicans with less-than-perfect grades from the NRA, there is only one Democratic senator - Joe Donnelly of Indiana - with less than a 100 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America. Planned Parenthood and the NRA are both virtually 100 percent partisan in their spending (Democrats vs Republicans, respectively). Then there’s the impact the two groups have on the parties they tend to support. Well, there is one glaring difference: The NRA doesn’t get $500 million a year in government funding. “Planned Parenthood’s PAC is among the most powerful lobbying groups in American politics, shelling out $40 million last year for ‘public policy’ and investing upwards of $175 million in such nebulous categories as ‘movement building,’ ‘strengthening and securing Planned Parenthood,’ and ‘engaging communities,'” writes Alexandra Desanctis in National Review.Īll of this has pro-gun people asking, “And this differs from the ‘nefarious’ actions of the NRA … how?” This was in addition to the $15 million Planned Parenthood spent on direct electioneering, according to. In May 2016 the Huffington Post published, “Inside Planned Parenthood’s $30 Million Campaign For 2016,” about the organization’s $30 million effort to “make sure Donald Trump doesn’t get the chance” to become president. “The Clinton campaign really pushed the party in the wrong direction on this issue,” Day said.Īnd Planned Parenthood really pushed Clinton. “Now there are three.” And she holds Planned Parenthood responsible, along with its fully-owned subsidiary the Hillary Clinton campaign. Day is quick to point out that as recently as 2008 there were more than 60 pro-life Democrats in Congress. “I’ve already said on the front page of the newspaper that I don’t support Nancy Pelosi,” Lamb says in his latest TV ad.ĭay’s organization is pushing for a big-tent approach on the abortion issue inside her party as a strategy for winning back seats lost during the Obama years. ![]() In fact, he’s already pledged not vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Lamb’s candidacy in this conservative district is helped by the fact that he’s Catholic - a self-styled moderate who’s not a slave to Democratic Party orthodoxy. The race is neck-and-neck, despite the fact that Donald Trump carried the district by 20 points. ![]() In Western Pennsylvania, pro-life Democrat Conor Lamb is facing a Republican in a special election March 13. In fact, when the New Hampshire Journal posted an article about his beliefs on the eve of the election, Spagnuolo immediately rushed out a response: “While I believe as much in my personal life, I don’t think it should be the government’s role to tell women what they can or can’t do with their bodies,” he said. Only, you wouldn’t know Democrat Phil Spagnuolo was pro-life because he rarely mentioned it. A pro-life Democrat flipped a seat blue Tuesday in a state that had been solidly Republican for decades. ![]()
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