A Prolife Democrat

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A few days ago, I was on the discussion of politics with a friend, and we get onto this subject and says that being a pro-life Democrat is contradictory. I’ve been doing some research on this and was just curious on people’s take on this view of a ‘Pro-life Democrat’, and also wondering if this were to be brought up again, how to respond?
 
Abortion is part of the democrat base, so it’s definitely not normative for a democrat to support life. But I wouldn’t exactly say it’s contradictory.
 
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Sometimes a person looks at things from the lesser of evil perspective, especially when neither parties follow biblical teachings to some extent or another and there’s no other choices.
 
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On the national level, they are certainly becoming a vanishing breed as both parties become more purified on the issue. We seem to be heading towards a point where eventually a pro-life Democrat (or a pro-choice Republican) will never be able to make it through a primary.

From Where Have All The Pro-Life Democrats Gone?:

“This change has been years in the making. Although there’s no absolute criteria for what constitutes “pro-life” or “pro-choice,” Democrats willing to vote for restrictions on abortion have largely left Congress over the past decade. Three Democratic senators who oppose abortion remain in office — all are up for election this year, though their primary opponents have little chance of unseating them. And just 12 of the 64 Democratic representatives who voted with Stupak on the ACA remain in office. Stupak himself left Congress in 2010.”
 
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