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In reply to the discussion: Contrary to popular opinion, DU is supposed to be for politically *liberal* people. Either that or [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)The fact is that many well-known and well-respected Democratic candidates, INCLUDING AL GORE, DENNIS KUCINICH, JESSE JACKSON, TED KENNEDY were pro-life before they ran for presidential office. You really think they changed their minds? I don't. I think they changed their STANCES on this issue so that they could get the votes of the mainstream Democrats and the pro-choice vote. And, given the way that just this thread has gone, I can't say that I blame them, but I'M not running for office, so I don't have to play politics with this issue. And I won't.
Here's a DFLA powerpoint presentation with some interesting statistics in it; otherwise I can't help you with statistics: http://www.democratsforlife.org/documents_etc/TheCaseforPro-LifeDems.ppt#269,1,The Case for Pro-Life Democrats
Another Edit: Here's a piece from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/18/democrats-for-lifes-push-to-reform-party-plank-on-abortion-rights/
And an excerpt from that article: The case that Democrats for Life makes is this: About a third of those who identify as Democrats also identify as pro-life. That number grew, between 2011 and 2007, by 7 percent.