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You're forgetting Rep. Cuellar from Laredo, Texas. He was the only Democrat to vote against the 2021 "Women's Health Protection Act." And right now he is being vigorously primaried by a rabidly pro-choice, out-of-state funded candidate.

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Unfortunately pro-abortion Republicans, even at the national level, are still a thing. People like Susan Collins of Maine and several Republican governors in the North East. The dynamics Ed mentioned in the article are going to go both directions - probably more so in the Republican party.

One thing we've learned over the last 10 years is how uninterested so many in the GOP are in social conservative issues, especially in the face of corporate pressure. Folks like Ron DeSantis in Florida are changing that, but we recently had a couple R govs veto bill dealing with female sports rights. The most concerning example, in my opinion, was when then Gov Mike Pence vetoed the religious freedom reformation act that lawmakers in Indiana passed.

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If Roe is overturned and abortion is really taken off the national political landscape, then would your views on abortion not matter as much for national positions?

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I am always touched by Bishops and Catholic journalists pining for that nearly extinct thing - the Pro-Life Democrat. It always reminds me of those Catholics who believe the 1950s were the Catholic Golden Age and long to return to it. When my friends and I were young and took the field to fight for the unborn, we had no party allegiance. Republicans ran New York State when abortion was legalized in 1970. We promoted Pro-Life to both parties and both were hostile. New York now has 2 Pro-Life Republican candidates for Governor, and the State has no Pro-Life Democrat candidate for any office. WE did not become Republicans for allegiance to any party, but because the Democrats are just as committed to destroying Pro-Lifers as they are to destroying the unborn

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It would be politically prudent for the Democrats to accommodate the pro life voter in the light of all the conservatives that couldn't bring themselves to vote for Trump. With Trump still looming, that segment of voters need a new political home going forward.

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The parties are now separated by not only by policies or even moral worldviews but by an ecosystem of wildly contradictory facts and information. And a winner-take-all mentality.

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There needs to be an update on this after “pro-life” Bob Casey’s support for the expansion of abortion.

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