abortion and down's syndrome

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Monday November 19, 2007 · 11:32 AM PST

2007/11/19 · 11:32

As someone who subscribes to the personally prolife, but politically prochoice position, I am in wholehearted agreement with prolifers who abhor people who abort on the grounds of discovering their child has Down's syndrome. This column in the Wash post mentions how abortion approaches 90% for those detected with Down's Syndrome. I am curious if progressive prochoicers find this disturbing. If so, I believe it would help the prochoice image in the eyes of many voters, who believe prochoicers have no moral code or values when it comes to abortion.

Washington Post Column

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Friday October 19, 2007 · 7:01 AM PDT

2007/10/19 · 07:01

Now I see what the right wingers were saying about the extreme left's blind Bush hatred. I find Stark's comments to be totally fine and on target except the words "for the President's amusement." I may loathe Bush's war and his policies, but I would never say Bush is "amused" by all the men and women dying in Iraq. I'm sure Bush cares rather deeply--thus why he is so determined to "succeed" in Iraq and stick with his bone-headed inept policy instead of changing course.

ihlin

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Wednesday July 18, 2007 · 8:02 AM PDT

2007/07/18 · 08:02

I remember back in the day diary after diary on the "nuclear option."

Nuclear Option Is Coming

Back in 1998, we learned to our collective dismay that Gerald Ford was right all along: an impeachable offense really is whatever the House says it is.

Similarly, we now find that Senate rules, long thought to have been in continuous operation from Congress to Congress, and to have required a 2/3 vote to amend, are in fact... whatever the Senate says they are.

Or at least, that's the current argument of... conservatives.

But now, isn't this the argument of so-called ... liberals?

ihlin

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Monday July 16, 2007 · 5:46 PM PDT

2007/07/16 · 17:46

Folks here have a tough time understanding why Liberals get tarred for being "anti-religious" and why this then transfers over into Democrats being "anti-religious."

While i admire much of the important work Rev Barry Lynn does for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the reason why Christians such as myself view him with much suspicion is because he really does seem to confirm the stereotype of the "secularist" Democrat that Obama (rightfully) condemned who wants to eliminate ANY role for religion in the public square. Never mind religion has always been present in most every social movement in American history (both for better AND worse...)

Faith Talk Derided

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Wednesday June 27, 2007 · 9:57 AM PDT

2007/06/27 · 09:57

The biggest, most diverse, exciting grassroots progressive conference ever held in the United States is about to start tomorrow. and no, it's not the YearlyKos. It's the first ever US Social Forum, an outgrowth of the amazing World Social Forums previously held in Brazil, Venezuela and Kenya that focuses on building alternatives to the current globalization, neoliberal order.

https://www.ussf2007.org/

What disturbs me, as someone who has worked in this movement for years now, is how completely divided the progressive movement is, embodied in the fact that most so-called "progressive" netroots activists and Kossacks seem to have no clue that the US Social Forum is even going on, despite the 10,000 activists expected to show up tomorrow in Atlanta. It is always amusing to see the netroots claim to represent the progressive movement or the "Real grassroots" when it remains mostly an overwhelmingly white, secular, upper middle class phenomenon.

ihlin

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 10:04 AM PST

2007/02/26 · 10:04

Interesting that there has been so little interest among liberals highlighting the new movie Amazing Grace, about William Wilberforce, the British Christian evangelical credited with helping Britain to abolish slavery. This movie has been the talk of my church and Christian publications. It shows that religion isn't always the evil certain secular liberals make it out to be. and it shows the commitment of both secular human rights groups and evangelical groups (including Focus on the Family and Concerned WOmen for America) to ending modern day slavery.

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Monday November 20, 2006 · 2:25 PM PST

2006/11/20 · 14:25

It is always amusing when white liberals wring their hands over the influence of the megachurches and despair over at trying to find alternatives for progressives to organize in. Sure, a lot of the megachurches i've attended have irritating bad music and shallow sermons, but I, as a lot of other minorities, believe churches can and should be involved in politics, and that they can be a force for good. All of the great progressive victories for people of color were forged in the church, so when the secular radicals proclaim that "religion should have no place in politics" it rings quite hollow for many of us.

In Dallas County, TX, a huge "Super Sunday" effort by black churches led to smashing victories for Democrats across the board, from local judicial candidates to county officials. Notably, the rancid TD Jakes was not part of this effort.

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Thursday August 24, 2006 · 11:11 PM PDT

2006/08/24 · 23:11

This diary pointed out some of the positives of the new very interesting Pew Forum poll:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

What i want to point out is that the American electorate is fundamentally a very religious one, that they think religion has a POSITIVE impact on society, unlike the many folks here who believe, as Marx said, it is the opiate for the masses. and that again, there are fundamental divides between two bases of the Dem party, african american/minorities vs secular white liberals. We all have to work in a coalition together, and as someone who tries to build those bridges, i'm simply just pointing them out. Read More

Pro-Life can be a Winning Position

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Saturday August 12, 2006 · 11:33 AM PDT

2006/08/12 · 11:33

When folks can get outside SF or Cambridge or their local NARAL meetings, they would realize in many parts of the country, particularly in the rural areas where Dems are now an endangered species, pro-life Dems are a majority and that even in a Democratic primary, being pro-life is a WINNING position. Read More

While you were bitching about the Democratic Party...

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Wednesday February 01, 2006 · 10:22 PM PST

2006/02/01 · 22:22

and those who voted against cloture/filibustering Alito, tearing up your Dem registration cards, going on and on and on and on about abortion/spying and all the other issues that most Middle America voters do not give a fig about but which elitist liberals obsess over, the beleaguered so-called "sellout" Democratic Party was trying to desperately save catastrophic cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Student loans, welfare TANF reform, child support funding, foster care funding, and all those other things that have a direct impact on American lives in ways much more real to the average voter than Alito's membership in some stupid college club decades ago. The House today had to vote again on the $40 billion spending cuts known as the Budget Reconciliation bill... Read More

DNC Fundraising Phone Call -- yuck!

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Friday January 06, 2006 · 9:44 AM PST

2006/01/06 · 09:44

I just received a very frustrating phone call solicitation from the DNC. I think there is a bit of a disconnect between their internet strategy and their fundraising phone call operation. Read More

TANF/Welfare Reform is just as important as ANWR!!

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 8:28 AM PST

2005/12/22 · 08:28

Something that has gone completely overlooked by the media, DC Democrats and grassroot activists and even certain womens groups is the fact that the Budget Reconciliation bill contained the MOST significant changes to welfare reform/TANF in 10 years, since the original 1996 welfare reform passed.

I have seldom seen this mentioned anywhere, and even when discussing the rancid bill that passed yesterday with Darth Cheney's tie breaking vote, the focus is on the medicaid/Medicare, student loans, foster care cuts. Nary a word has been mentioned that this bill contains the most radical and farreaching changes to the 1996 welfare reform bill, all done through shitty procedural moves that were every bit as unethical and disgusting as attaching ANWR to the Defense Appropriations. This will have a heavy and devastating impact for the least among us.
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TANF/Welfare Reform is just as important as ANWR!!