NO, Speaker Pelosi, being anti-choice is NOT being a dem (per the dem platform)

[niyad]

I DO NOT GIVE A FLYING FIG WHAT LETTER IS AFTER THE NAME, IF THE PERSON IS ANTI-CHOICE, FUCK THEM. THEY WILL NEVER GET MY VOTE


(so tell me again, how can a politician claim to be a dem while ignoring the Democratic Party Platform????????)


Guaranteeing Women’s Rights
We are committed to ensuring full equality for women. Democrats will fight to end gender
discrimination in the areas of education, employment, health care, or any other sphere. We will combat biases across economic, political, and social life that hold women back and limit their opportunities and also tackle specific challenges facing women of color. After 240 years, we will finally enshrine the rights of women in the Constitution by passing the Equal Rights Amendment. And we will urge U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

. . . . .

37

Securing Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Democrats are committed to protecting and advancing reproductive health, rights, and justice. We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, INCLUDING SAFE AND LEGAL ABORTION, regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured. We believe that reproductive health is core to women’s, men’s, and young people’s health and wellbeing. We will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers, which provide critical health services to millions of people. We will continue to oppose and seek to overturn federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment. We condemn and will combat any acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation of reproductive health providers, patients, and staff. We will defend the ACA, which extends affordable preventive health care to women, including no-cost contraception, and prohibits discrimination in health care based on gender. We will address the discrimination and barriers that inhibit meaningful access to reproductive
health care services, including those based on gender, sexuality, race, income, disability, and other factors. We recognize that quality, affordable comprehensive health care, evidence-based sex education and a full range of family planning services help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions.
. . . . . .


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/papers_pdf/117717.pdf

[freddyvh]

1. ??

so you have to follow the platform 100% to be in a certain party?

[niyad]

2. nice try. what flavour pizza do you prefer?

[Ohioblue22]

7. I don't get the purity police either .

[phylny]

3. I could be wrong, but I listened to MTP last night on satellite and thought

Nancy Pelosi said that while she has worked with people in the party who are "pro-life," they vote for "pro-choice" legislation and support the party platform.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen a complete transcript of her entire answer.

[niyad]

4. here

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-course-you-can-be-democrat-against-abortion-n749856

Pelosi: ‘Of Course’ You Can Be a Democrat and Against Abortion

[phylny]

5. That's part of her answer; she said more. I'll investigate. n/t

[phylny]

6. This clip cut off before she finished her remarks.

I looked for a transcript of her complete remarks but could not find one.

I recall, and I hope someone can confirm or refute my recollection, that she finished by saying she worked with people who were pro-life, but supported the platform.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Here's the transcript of the portion of MTP where she was asked about abortion rights.

CHUCK TODD:

Let me ask you. What should unify the Democratic Party? What should make somebody a Democrat and not a Democrat? And I ask it in this way. There's been a lot of back-and-forth, especially among abortion rights activists, about a decision of the Democratic Party to support a candidate for mayor in Omaha, a Democrat, who happens to be pro-life.

And there are some that, and at some point, the Democratic National Committee chairman actually had to put out the following statement after three days of back-and-forth. He said, "I fundamentally disagree with Heath Mello's personal beliefs," the candidate for Omaha mayor, "about women's reproductive health. It is a promising step that the candidate now shares the Democratic Party's position on women's fundamental rights. Each candidate who runs as a Democrat should do the same. Because every woman should be able to make her own health choices, period." Can you be a Democrat?

NANCY PELOSI:

Why don't you interview Tom Perez? You're interviewing me.

CHUCK TODD:

Let me ask you this. But can you be a Democrat and the support of the Democratic Party if you're pro-life?

NANCY PELOSI:

Of course. I have served many years in Congress with members who have not shared my very positive, my family would say aggressive, position on promoting a woman's right to choose. But what you asked, the first part of the question before you went off, was about what unifies Democrats.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-23-2017-n749866

It seems to me that a person can have a personal pro-life position and still support a woman's right to make her own reproductive decisions. As I recall, that is the position held by Tim Kaine and Joe Biden.

[phylny]

11. She said more than that. I did see this, but she said much more. n/t

[Ohioblue22]

8. but you will enjoy the benefits that that party privides while voting against it

[niyad]

10. nice try.