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Democrat Pelosi Calls Abortion A Fading Issue

by Register Peace & Freedom or Green
San Francisco millionaire Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Post in May 2017 that she thinks abortion is a fading issue and should not be a litmus test issue for the Democratic Party. This angered enough women and abortion providers to set up a website with a letter to Nancy Pelosi from abortion recipients and their supporters to change her tune at https://letter.abortionfunds.org/ and to publish this letter as a full page ad in the July 12, 2017 San Francisco Examiner.
San Francisco millionaire Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Post in May 2017 that she thinks abortion is a fading issue and should not be a litmus test issue for the Democratic Party. This angered enough women and abortion providers to set up a website with a letter to Nancy Pelosi from abortion recipients and their supporters to change her tune at https://letter.abortionfunds.org/ and to publish this letter as a full page ad in the July 12, 2017 San Francisco Examiner.

Nancy Pelosi’s net worth is around $120 million. See https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/nancy-pelosi-net-worth/
She has been representing San Francisco since 1987 and is now 77 years old. She is Roman Catholic and claims to be pro-choice, which is something short of the law, which is pro-abortion.

The Washington Post stories are at:

“Nancy Pelosi Says Abortion Is ‘Fading’ As An Issue For Democrats. The Opposite Is True For Conservatives.” by Amber Phillips, 5/3/2017 at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/03/nancy-pelosi-says-abortion-is-fading-as-an-issue-for-democrats-the-opposite-is-true-for-conservatives/
and
“Pelosi: Democratic Candidates Should Not Be Forced To Toe Party Line On Abortion” by Karen Tumulty, 5/2/2017 at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-democratic-candidates-should-not-be-forced-to-toe-party-line-on-abortion/2017/05/02/9cbc9bc6-2f68-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html

The Democrats were on the wrong side when abortion was legalized with the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, with majority opinion written by Republican Nixon appointee, Justice Blackmun, and the Democrat Kennedy appointee, Justice White dissented. Pres. Nixon was profoundly evil but we had a mass movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s with various issues under the umbrella of the antiwar, anti-draft movement for peace in Vietnam, including the right to legal abortion. We regularly had hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating for peace every spring and fall in every major city and every college campus had protests all year round, with the primary focus on ending the draft, which finally ended in 1973. It is mass movements that make change. For Roe v Wade, see http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/410/113.html

Pelosi claims to be for some vague cause called working families. Millionaires, of course, do not work; their wealth is from investments. They never need to worry if abortion is legal or free since they can always pay for abortions. The workingclass, those of us who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year, certainly need legal abortions to be part of women’s healthcare as no one needs children they cannot feed and abortion must be affordable, preferably free. This economic reality is highlighted in the letter. It is bad enough that a woman faces death every time she becomes pregnant, but then to be faced with not being able to have an abortion upon demand, with no restrictions, and regardless of the cost, makes life much worse for her and her family. Clearly, Nancy Pelosi is not for families or women.

The Democratic Party has been welcoming anti-abortion voters so that as of March 2016, 28% of Democrats oppose legal abortion. Some infamous anti-abortion Democrats are Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana and Rep. Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania. Democrats’ sheepdog, warmonger Senator Bernie Sanders, campaigned in April 2016 for anti-abortion Democrat Heath Mello for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Sanders defended his support of Mello on National Public Radio with the statement “I think you just can’t exclude people who disagree with us on one issue.” Bernie Sanders clearly does not think abortion is an important issue.
See
“Inside The Democrats’ Civil War Over Abortion” by Lindsay Wise and Brian Lowry, McClatchy Washington Bureau, 7/3/17 at
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article159130169.html

The twin parties of war and fascism, the Democrat-Republicans, HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER THE WORKINGCLASS. They are both anti-abortion, pro-war, anti-Russian, pro-Israel and pro-police (pro-fascism) parties. The anti-Russian hysteria being promoted by the Democrats, and supported by lots of Republicans, instead of exposing the Republican Party’s tossing of the black vote in contested states to win the Electoral College vote in 2016, the same as they did in 2000 and 2004, would make Hitler proud. Nazi Germany was just as anti-Russian for the same reason: to steal Russian gold, oil, diamonds and all their other mineral wealth. The Democrats mouth a few decent phrases at election time, or have sheepdogs like warmonger Senator Bernie Sanders do the same, to make sure people vote Democrat instead of socialist (Peace & Freedom Party) or Green since THAT IS THE ONLY REASON THE DEMOCRATS EXIST. There is no other reason for 2 parties paid by the same capitalist parties to carry out the same war and fascism agenda to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, the primary goal of this society being to maximize profits.

This should send every Democrat who supports abortion to their Registrar of Voters or online to the Secretary of State’s website to change their registration to either of the two parties on the California ballot which staunchly support a women’s right to abortion, Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party immediately. You can register online for either one of these 2 pro-abortion, pro-peace, pro-labor, pro-environment parties at https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
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