TW for abortionCPAC panel: ‘Abortion-centered feminism is dead’2016 election seen as mak

TW for abortionCPAC panel: ‘Abortion-centered feminism is dead’2016 election seen as make or break“The pro-life political headway gained in 2014 has to be expanded in the next election, pro-life leaders told a standing-room-only session at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday.“I think that abortion-centered feminism is dead,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, founder and president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which has now elected 100 pro-life House members and 19 pro-life senators to Congress.Abortion-centered feminism may try to “crawl back,” she said, but the last election showed that voters respond to pro-life messages that abortions should be outlawed once fetuses can feel pain, and that taxpayer funds shouldn’t be used for abortion.A priority for the new Congress, which now has a strong pro-life contingent in both chambers, is to pass a bill to ban most abortions after 20 weeks gestation, when the unborn child is likely to be able to feel pain, said the panelists at CPAC’s session, “Baby Steps: The Pro-Life Success Story.”Such a bill would be the first time Congress has acted to block abortions after a certain point in pregnancy, said Ms. Dannenfelser. Currently, abortions are legal throughout pregnancy.Several states have enacted these 20-week, “pain-capable unborn child” abortion bans, she said, and the issue is likely to follow the same “zigzag path” that the partial-birth abortion ban took to the Supreme Court.Other activities are to encourage abortion-clinic regulations and limits on webcam-abortions, said Ms. St. Martin.Many members of the audience indicated that they were already active with pro-life groups on campus or in their communities, and a few more said they would be signing up too.The 2016 presidential election is very important — it “will either set us back or set us forward decades,” said Ms. Dannenfelser.“Be encouraged. We are making a difference,” said Ms. Yoest.Read the full piece hereU.S. readers, they aren’t kidding - the 2016 election IS make or break for women’s rights, specifically reproductive freedom. It’s nearly inevitable that the next president will elect one or more Supreme Court judges - who make the most important decisions facing the country - FOR LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS.The recent attacks -and wins - against reproductive freedom and women’s rights are backed by a Supreme Court elected by past conservatives. If we get a conservative president in 2016, the implications for women are horrifying.YOUR DAILY REMINDER THAT THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN WON’T STOP UNTIL WE STOP ITLet’s not forget this guy (yesterday)or this guy (last week)To my U.S. readers - register to vote here: http://www.vote411.org. This way you’ll be qualified to vote these misogynists out the next chance you get. -- source link
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