{"id":29973,"date":"2012-08-26T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/why-does-the-pro-life-movement-get-all-the-press.html"},"modified":"2012-08-26T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:13:59","slug":"why-does-the-pro-life-movement-get-all-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/why-does-the-pro-life-movement-get-all-the-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Why does the &quot;Pro-Life&quot; movement get all the press?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, in many ways, they&#39;re the only ones with the institutional backing of a major political party. \u00a0The Democratic establishment gives lip service to &quot;Pro-Choice,&quot; but nothing more than that (and that, quietly).<\/p>\n<p>At some point that will have to change, or else <i>Roe v Wade<\/i> <b>and<\/b> <i>Griswold v Connecticut<\/i> will indeed be reversed someday. And i really don&#39;t think that&#39;s what most people want. \u00a0At least, I hope not.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire.com%2Fcm%2Fesquire%2Fimages%2FXN%2Fesq-keep-abortion-legal-082212-pUBzSb-xlg.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/pro-choice-movement-2012-11944332'>The Democrats&#39; Problem with Abortion<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt is time for a pro-choice movement led by the Democratic Party. Only then can we all have a good laugh at Todd Akin again.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FuRw7EEno6K' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, in many ways, they&#39;re the only ones with the institutional backing of a major political party. \u00a0The Democratic establishment gives lip service to &quot;Pro-Choice,&quot; but nothing more than that (and that, quietly). At some point that will have to change, or else Roe v Wade and Griswold v Connecticut will indeed be reversed someday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/why-does-the-pro-life-movement-get-all-the-press.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why does the &quot;Pro-Life&quot; movement get all the press?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132733,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/an-additional-thought-on-neil-gorsuch.html","url_meta":{"origin":29973,"position":0},"title":"An additional thought on Neil Gorsuch","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Feb-17 11:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"While people (including Gorsuch) decry the perceived politicization of the Supreme Court, the fact is that people have kept tally of the politics of SCOTUS and its justices for decades. l once heard Kathleen Sullivan speak on the subject -- she was Dean of Stanford Law School, and in her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13343,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/i_dont_think_that_word_me.html","url_meta":{"origin":29973,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that word means what you think it means&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Jan-09 4:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am irked greatly, as the anti-abortion movement has not only co-opted the word \"Life\" to represent their policies (such that a license plate that says \"Respect Life\" can't be...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Writing and Language&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Writing and Language","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/writing-and-language"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43725,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/seeking-a-religious-exemption-to-a-job-description.html","url_meta":{"origin":29973,"position":2},"title":"Seeking\u00a0a religious exemption to a\u00a0job description","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Jul-14 2:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Ms.\u00a0Hellwege: the family planning clinic you were applying to did not refuse to hire you because you hold religious views that would lead you to not prescribe most forms of birth control, but because you won't prescribe most forms of birth control and that's what that family planning clinic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128128,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/pro-life.html","url_meta":{"origin":29973,"position":3},"title":"Pro-Life","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Sep-15 10:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I can respect (though I disagree with) the Pro-Life stance on abortion. 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