More than one hundred Christian pastors, pro-life academics and advocates have called on the Democratic National Committee “to recognise the inviolable human dignity of the child, before and after birth,” and adopt a party platform that’s friendlier to those who are pro-life.
“Some of us are registered Democrats and some of us are not, but we appreciate the Democratic Party’s stated commitment to human rights, equality, and fairness,” they wrote in a letter to the Democratic Platform Committee, organised by the pro-life group Democrats for Life.
“Accordingly, we urge the Democratic Party to embrace policies that protect both women and children: legal protection for pre-born children, improved prenatal care for women in need, especially women of colour, alternatives to abortion, and comprehensive culture of life free from violence, poverty and racism,” the letter adds.
The signatories urged the Democratic Platform Committee “to reject a litmus test on pro-life people of faith seeking office in the Democratic Party. Crucially, we urge you to end the explicit support in your platform for abortion extremism, such as taxpayer-funded abortion in America and overseas, opposed by 60% and 76% of voters.”
Last year, Joe Biden, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, reversed his decades-long support for restricting federal funding of abortions, according to The Associated Press.
In February, activists from Democrats for Life held a press conference in Charleston, South Carolina, ahead of the state’s primary to express their disgust with the Democratic candidates’ stances on abortion as nearly all of them opposed bans on late-term abortion and safety regulations in the abortion industry.
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