Politics

Pro-Life Groups Respond To Dem Candidates Pushing Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Daily Caller News Foundation logo
Mary Margaret Olohan Social Issues Reporter
Font Size:
  • Democratic presidential candidates discussed their stances on abortion Wednesday night at the first primary debate.
  • Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and former Housing and Urban Development Sec. Julian Castro specifically outlined their extreme abortion stances.
  • Pro-life leaders pushed back Thursday, saying these stances do not reflect the vast majority of American views on abortion.

Pro-life leaders fired back at pro-choice Democratic candidates Thursday after the presidential candidates touted support of taxpayer-funded abortions at the Democratic presidential debates Wednesday night.

The Democratic 2020 presidential candidates discussed reproductive rights at the first of the presidential debates. Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee singled out Christian charities for taxpayer-funded abortions. Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she would make sure women have the “full range” of access to all reproductive healthcare. Former Housing and Urban Development Sec. Julian Castro, meanwhile, insisted men can have children and abortions.

Pro-life leaders responded Wednesday night and Thursday to these statements. (RELATED: Inslee Takes Aim At Christian Charities, Talks About Forcing Abortion Coverage)

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser says the clear winner of the Democratic presidential debates was the “radical abortion lobby.”

“Not a single candidate, from Booker to Warren, speaks for the majority of Americans – including a strong majority of Independents and more than one-third of Democrats – who oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions,” Dannenfelser said in a press release.

The SBA List president added that while President Donald Trump has “led the charge” in protecting the rights of the unborn, Democratic contenders push “a deeply unpopular agenda of taxpayer-funded abortion on demand and join corporate bullies in attacking Georgia’s compassionate heartbeat law.”

Dannenfelser referenced a new SBA poll released Wednesday that finds that a majority of voters oppose using federal tax dollars to pay for abortions under Medicaid.

Ashley McGuire, Senior Fellow at the Catholic Association, pointed out that Julian Castro’s eagerness to show support of taxpayer-funded abortion points “to the abortion extremism that has taken over his party.”

“By equating ‘reproductive justice’ with taxpayer funding of abortion, he reveals the party’s fundamental schism with Americans writ large on the issue,” McGuire said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Americans overwhelmingly oppose the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions, and yet Democrats are actively and aggressively working to undo legal barriers like the Hyde Amendment,” McGuire added. ” They now believe that forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions is a matter of “justice.” No doubt this election cycle will unveil a competition between the candidates as to who can be most extreme on abortion; Castro was just the first one out of the gate.”

Tom McClusky, President of March for Life Action, emphasized in a statement provided to the DCNF that every single Democratic candidate favors forced taxpayer abortion a position that Americans do not necessarily embrace.

“The eleventh annual Marist Poll Survey on American attitudes toward abortion showed once again this year how out of step that the Democratic presidential candidates are with both the American people as well as their own party,” McClusky said in the statement.

“As the just-released March for Life Action Presidential scorecard shows, this is the most pro-abortion slate of candidates in recent history,” McClusky added. “Every single candidate is in favor of forced taxpayer funding for abortion and would also eliminate all current pro-life protections.”

Live Action founder and President Lila Grace Rose tweeted during the debates about Warren’s stance on abortion. “Elizabeth Warren was asked point blank if she would support ANY abortion restriction,” Rose tweeted. “She couldn’t name one.”

“Democratic candidates now trying to out-do each other in their support for abortion (at ANY point) in pregnancy and government funded abortion,” Rose added during the debate.

“Abortion politics are rapidly approaching a breaking point in our country, with Democratic presidential hopefuls finding themselves on the wrong side of history and out-of-step with a vast majority of Americans regarding this contentious issue,” March For Life President Jeanne Mancini wrote in an op-ed to the Washington Times.

“The growing disconnect between frenzied abortion extremists within the Democratic presidential field and their prospective constituents is on full display with every prime-time appearance,” Mancini added. “No doubt this will again prove true during the second Democratic presidential debate in Miami.”

The pro-life group Students For Life also weighed in on the candidates’ stances on abortion.

“Happening now: Democrat candidates fighting over who wants to kill babies via abortion the most,” the group tweeted.

All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

PREMIUM ARTICLE: Subscribe To Keep Reading

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign Up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
BENEFITS READERS PASS PATRIOTS FOUNDERS
Daily and Breaking Newsletters
Daily Caller Shows
Ad Free Experience
Exclusive Articles
Custom Newsletters
Editor Daily Rundown
Behind The Scenes Coverage
Award Winning Documentaries
Patriot War Room
Patriot Live Chat
Exclusive Events
Gold Membership Card
Tucker Mug

What does Founders Club include?

Tucker Mug and Membership Card
Founders

Readers,

Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight.

Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence.

We don't complain -- we can't stand complainers -- but we do call it how we see it. We have a fight on our hands, and it's intense. We need your help to smash through the big tech, big media and big government blockade.

We're the insurgent outsiders for a reason: our deep-dive investigations hold the powerful to account. Our original videos undermine their narratives on a daily basis. Even our insistence on having fun infuriates them -- because we won’t bend the knee to political correctness.

One reason we stand apart is because we are not afraid to say we love America. We love her with every fiber of our being, and we think she's worth saving from today’s craziness.

Help us save her.

A second reason we stand out is the sheer number of honest responsible reporters we have helped train. We have trained so many solid reporters that they now hold prominent positions at publications across the political spectrum. Hear a rare reasonable voice at a place like CNN? There’s a good chance they were trained at Daily Caller. Same goes for the numerous Daily Caller alumni dominating the news coverage at outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, Daily Wire and many others.

Simply put, America needs solid reporters fighting to tell the truth or we will never have honest elections or a fair system. We are working tirelessly to make that happen and we are making a difference.

Since 2010, The Daily Caller has grown immensely. We're in the halls of Congress. We're in the Oval Office. And we're in up to 20 million homes every single month. That's 20 million Americans like you who are impossible to ignore.

We can overcome the forces lined up against all of us. This is an important mission but we can’t do it unless you — the everyday Americans forgotten by the establishment — have our back.

Please consider becoming a Daily Caller Patriot today, and help us keep doing work that holds politicians, corporations and other leaders accountable. Help us thumb our noses at political correctness. Help us train a new generation of news reporters who will actually tell the truth. And help us remind Americans everywhere that there are millions of us who remain clear-eyed about our country's greatness.

In return for membership, Daily Caller Patriots will be able to read The Daily Caller without any of the ads that we have long used to support our mission. We know the ads drive you crazy. They drive us crazy too. But we need revenue to keep the fight going. If you join us, we will cut out the ads for you and put every Lincoln-headed cent we earn into amplifying our voice, training even more solid reporters, and giving you the ad-free experience and lightning fast website you deserve.

Patriots will also be eligible for Patriots Only content, newsletters, chats and live events with our reporters and editors. It's simple: welcome us into your lives, and we'll welcome you into ours.

We can save America together.

Become a Daily Caller Patriot today.

Signature

Neil Patel