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

• Democratic presidential candidates discussed their stances on abortion Wednesday night at the Democratic debates.
• Warren, Inslee, and Castro specifically spoke out on their extreme abortion stances.
• Pro-life leaders pushed back Thursday, saying that 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 Massachusettes Sen. Elizabeth Warren Democratic said she would make sure women have “full range” of access to all reproductive healthcare, and presidential candidate Julian Castro claimed that men can have children and abortions.

Pro-life leaders responded Wednesday night and Thursday to these statements.

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser says the clear winner of the Democratic presidential debates was none other than 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.”

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.”

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“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.

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“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.

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