james_1957
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First they attacked Bernie & now it's Pelosi. Who's next?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-rights-democrats_us_590a44f0e4b05c397685febb
WASHINGTON ― House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has always been a close ally of the abortion rights movement, but several feminist leaders turned on her this week after she said the Democratic Party should continue to be inclusive of anti-abortion candidates.
“Courting social conservatives by selling out women is not a winning campaign strategy but a morally bankrupt attempt to win votes without concern for the women who desperately need Democrats in their corner to fight against Republican attempts to restrict abortion,” said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of the feminist advocacy group Ultraviolet.
Pelosi, who is seeking to capitalize on dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump to try to pick up House seats in the 2018 midterm elections, told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that the subject of abortion is “fading” as a source of internecine tension for Democrats and that the party should not start having a litmus test for candidates on singular issues. She noted that some of her colleagues, including Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), oppose abortion rights and that she’d like them to stay in the Democratic Party.
“This is not a rubber-stamp party,” she said.
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said Pelosi’s strategy would move the Democratic Party backward and “trade away” hard-fought women’s rights for political points. Thomas, who has never before criticized Pelosi, said her comments on abortion rights are “unsettling” and “dead wrong.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-rights-democrats_us_590a44f0e4b05c397685febb