{"id":6448,"date":"2020-01-30T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:19:13","slug":"buttigieg-pro-lifers-need-not-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/buttigieg-pro-lifers-need-not-apply","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg: Pro-Lifers Need Not Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At a FoxNews Town Hall on Sunday, Democratic Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg raised eyebrows by telling a pro-life woman voter, in essence, that the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t take her kind. Take a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Called Out By Pro-Life Dem, Buttigieg Backs Position Of Dem Party To Exclude Pro-Life Voters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMqZEV6dmSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption> Called Out By Pro-Life Dem, Buttigieg Backs Position Of Dem Party To Exclude Pro-Life Voters &#8211; via  <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/channel\/UCvQ2kejN6UkrEVhE5oiYwBw\">GOP War Room<\/a> on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reaction against Buttigieg&#8217;s comments came in many forms. One FoxNews contributor highlighted the irony of Buttigieg, in the name of defending the Democratic Party&#8217;s &#8220;pro-woman&#8221; platform, telling a Democrat <em>woman <\/em>that she didn&#8217;t belong:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Buttigieg just told a pro-life, Democrat *woman* she has no place in today\u2019s Democrat Party. All she asked for was a recognition there is diversity of thought on the issue and that it be put in the platform language. He said no and told her to deal with it.<\/p>&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiePavlich\/status\/1221596792220987393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, that pro-life woman\u2014Kristen Day\u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"took to the pages of USA Today (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/01\/30\/pro-life-democrats-abortion-pete-buttigieg-column\/4609659002\/\" target=\"_blank\">took to the pages of <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> with her own op-ed piece to express her views on the matter, writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Buttigieg likes to talk about \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politico.com\/news\/2019\/11\/12\/buttigieg-future-former-republicans-new-hampshire-primary-070286\" target=\"_blank\">future former Republicans<\/a>.&#8221; With his extreme stance on abortion, though, he is doing precisely the opposite: building an army of future former Democrats&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> The pro-life movement today is more inclusive than ever. The Democratic Party and its presidential candidates \u2014&nbsp;less so. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the slate of candidates the Democrats have trotted out this year represents probably the most extreme views on abortion even within the party. Whereas <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"according to Gallup (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/246278\/abortion-trends-party.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">according to Gallup<\/a> nearly 60% of Democrats want some restrictions on abortion, Politico <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"describes (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/politico.com\/2020-election\/candidates-views-on-the-issues\/health-care\/abortion-contraception\/\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> <em>15 of the 19<\/em> Democratic hopefuls as advocating for &#8220;few limits, if any;&#8221; and, as Day cites in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"her article (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/01\/30\/pro-life-democrats-abortion-pete-buttigieg-column\/4609659002\/\" target=\"_blank\">her article<\/a>, recent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"research (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/prri.org\/research\/legal-in-most-cases-the-impact-of-the-abortion-debate-in-2019-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> indicates that <em>20%<\/em> of Democrats nationwide say they are only comfortable voting for a pro-life candidate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It makes one wonder what exactly the Democratic leadership&#8217;s strategy is, alienating such a large part of its voter base. But then, a look at the candidates they&#8217;ve lined up for voters&#8217; selection indicates that strategy might be pretty thin on the ground. The truth is that the party is in a tug-of-war of values between trying to maintain some tenuous grasp on its base, while at the same time jumping through hoops to place extreme leftists, LGBT radicals, and elitist cronies funding their coffers. 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