Did Bob Casey win the votes of pro-life Pennsylvanians last year under false pretenses?

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Is Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) pro-life? Did he win the votes of pro-life Pennsylvanians last year under false pretenses?

The question arises now after two extremely puzzling votes that Casey took last Thursday on the foreign operations appropriations bill. At 6:53 P.M., he voted for an amendment by Sen. Sam Brownback (R., Kan.), to preserve the federal government’s so-called Mexico City policy, which prohibits the granting of federal funds to overseas groups that refer and perform abortions.Twenty minutes earlier, however, Casey had voted for an amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) that not only overturned the Mexico City policy, but also increased funding for overseas groups that perform and refer abortions. Certainly, Casey had not had a change of heart in the space of 20 minutes.

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Something new…Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Harry Reid and Bill Clinton once were all “pro-life” Democrats too. Then somewhere along the way they all had a change of heart and mind.

I suspect there may have been a little arm twisting going on behind the scenes.

RULE #1: It’s not what politicians say, it’s what they do that really matters. No wonder so many people have become jaded when it comes to politics. 😦
 
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Something new…Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Harry Reid and Bill Clinton once were all “pro-life” Democrats too. Then somewhere along the way they all had a change of heart and mind.

I suspect there may have been a little arm twisting going on behind the scenes.

RULE #1: It’s not what politicians say, it’s what they do that really matters. No wonder so many people have become jaded when it comes to politics. 😦
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Exactly!

I think this may be a good example of why a candidate’s stand on abortion shouldn’t necessarily be the sole thing taken into consideration when in the voting booth.

Party politics frequently trump personal beliefs…unfortunately. 😦
 
I agree with both comments. It’s also telling that none of the apologists for Democratic Catholic politicians have decided to defend his actions.

If Catholics were half as good apologizing for Catholicism as they are for Democrats, we’d have many more active people in full communion with the Church.
 
I think Casey has said that he got confused. He intended to vote against the Brownback amendment. He has asked that his vote be changed. I think anyone who believed he was going to be pro-life had their head in the sand. He had shown nothing but a few vague statements in support of life.
 
It is virtually impossible to be a Democrat politician and be pro-life. The abortion industry totally controls the party. Vote against their interests as a legislator, and they’ll do everything possible to defeat you in the next election. I say that as a former officeholder in the Democrat Party. At a point in time, you simply couldn’t even be heard within the party if you were prolife. The pro-abortion line was orthodoxy. That’s when I resigned.
 
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