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    Wednesday, 25 November 2009

    by James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth

    The Stupak amendment, which robs women of insurance coverage for abortion, has caused all of us to mobilize to redress the damage done by this historic assault on a woman’s right to choose. While this campaign should be our immediate focus for the coming weeks, it should not prevent us from analyzing the factors that brought us to this debacle in the first place.

     

    A few provocative questions come immediately to mind. For starters, how does a pro-choice President and pro-choice House leadership end up moving a bill that seriously undermines a woman’s legal right to abortion? Has the political arm of the pro-choice movement been so co-opted by the Democratic Party that the pro-choice constituency is not just being taken for granted, but being taken to the cleaners on key legislative issues?

    Has the refusal of pro-choice leaders to hold anti-choice Democrats accountable during primaries earned the movement the dreaded “paper tiger” label thus broadcasting a clear message that you can attack pro-choice policies in congress without suffering any real political consequences?

    Has the decision of pro-choice leaders to acquiesce, implicitly or explicitly, with the decision of Democrats after the 2004 elections to vigorously recruit anti-choice candidates to build the Catholic “brand” within the party, set us on the inevitable path towards marginalization?

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