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To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party
By THOMAS GROOME
MARCH 27, 2017
When I came to this country from Ireland some 45 years ago, a cousin, here 15 years before, advised me that Catholics vote Democratic. Having grown up in the Irish Republic, I was well disposed to Republican Party principles like local autonomy and limited government. Yet a commitment to social justice, so central to my faith, seemed better represented by the Democratic Party. I followed my cousins good counsel.
But once-solid Catholic support for Democrats has steadily eroded. This was due at least in part to the shift by many American Catholic bishops from emphasizing social issues (peace, the economy) to engaging in the culture wars (abortion, gay marriage). Along the way, many Catholics came to view the Democrats as unconditionally supporting abortion.
Last years election was a watershed in this evolution. Hillary Clinton lost the overall Catholic vote by seven points after President Obama had won it in the previous two elections. She lost the white Catholic vote by 23 points. In heavily Catholic states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, she lost by a hair the last by less than 1 percent. A handful more of Catholic votes per parish in those states would have won her the election.
Her defeat is all the more remarkable considering that Mrs. Clinton shared many Catholic social values. By contrast, Mr. Trumps disrespect for women, his racism, sexism and xenophobia should have discouraged conscientious Catholics from voting for him. So why did they? Certainly his promises to rebuild manufacturing and his tough talk on terrorism were factors. But for many traditional Catholic voters, Mrs. Clintons unqualified support for abortion rights and Mr. Trumps opposition (and promise to nominate anti-abortion Supreme Court justices) were tipping points.
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When men write op-eds abt how pols should abandon reproductive justice to win elec (Original Post)
Panich52
Mar 2017
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samnsara
(17,650 posts)1. we are the CHOICE party and I will never give up on that
Squinch
(51,025 posts)2. That OP ed pissed me off no end.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)3. Fuck that guy.
niyad
(113,596 posts)7. not even with someone else's vagina!!
Staph
(6,253 posts)4. Thank you, Mr. Groome.
I needed some mansplaining about my choices as a woman!
LakeArenal
(28,855 posts)5. What the.....?
Is this guy serious? "Mrs. Clintons unqualified support for abortion rights".
First of all, HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE... With or without the Wisconsin's 1%
Secondly, Mrs. Clinton gives unqualified support for women's medical and reproductive rights. Everything beyond that is between women, their doctors, and if you must, their god.
Finally, THOMAS GROOME, man pontificating, keep your religion out of United States politics...
niyad
(113,596 posts)6. and, another woman-hating gestational slaver asshole heard from. women simply do not count.