Who We Are
We are the preeminent national organization for pro-life Democrats. We are the pro-life voice and wing of the Democratic Party.
We are:
Pro-life: We believe in the fundamental worth, dignity, and equality of all people. We believe that the protection of human life is the foundation of human rights, authentic freedom, and good government. These beliefs animate our opposition to abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, embryonic stem cell research, poverty, genocide, and all other injustices that directly and indirectly threaten human life.
Democrats: We believe in the core values and principles of the Democratic Party. We are committed to freedom and justice, security and prosperity, equality and community, and hope and progress. We are proud to be members of the party that created the New Deal, Fair Deal, and New Frontier. We share the party’s commitment to the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from fear and want. We look to continue and perfect the party’s commitment to the most vulnerable members of our society.
Pro-life Democrats: We believe in the legal protection of unborn life and a comprehensive, bipartisan approach to reducing the number of abortions in America and around the world. We believe in supporting women and children, strengthening families and communities, and protecting the environment. We favor eliminating unfair discrimination, improving education, and preserving the American dream for all Americans. We believe in the elimination of the death penalty, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research.
We believe in honest, efficient government that compliments the market and civil society to build a strong economy that benefits all Americans. We believe this can be achieved through consistent growth, sensible regulation, fair taxation, and adequate wages, along with efforts to ensure the equality of opportunity, a reduction in poverty, and the existence of an effective social safety net that guarantees that all people have sufficient access to food, shelter, healthcare, and life’s other basic necessities.
Globally, we oppose tyranny, terrorism, genocide, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, human trafficking, and all other unjust acts of violence and aggression. We support international cooperation, the spread of democracy and human rights, and the empowerment of women.
In representing pro-life Democrats within the true “big tent” party, DFLA works across a broad spectrum of life ethics. We recognize that people of good faith have different approaches to these issues; therefore, we refuse to use a single issue as a “litmus test” to exclude those who would otherwise seek common ground with us on the expansion of human rights. We encourage all people committed to the common good to work together to protect human life at all of its stages.
What We Do
We mobilize Democrats at local, state, and national levels to:
-elect pro-life Democrats to office
-support pro-life Democrats while in an elected position
-promote a pro-life plank in the Democratic Party platform
-achieve pro-life legislation with the help of national and state pro-life Democrats
-participate actively in Democratic party functions and offices
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The bishop's position on this floors me. During the past years, the actions--and inaction--of the hierarchy has left me filled with a sense of bitterness and loss. And then, God be praised, I had a revelation while I was praying the morning Office. Going back, say, to 1300, you can see that the hieararchy--especially the popes--has played what might be a divinely ordered dual role. On the one hand, they have been an anchor in a stormy world.
Take, for instance, the popes' resistance to efforts by kings to control the Church. But on the other hand, they have created problems so breathtaking today's problems seem small. For instance, the decision to stay in Avignon and alienate all of Europe by their system of taxation. This was followed, of course, by the great schism, with three men claiming to be pope, and then by the rationalist, corrupt popes whose excesses triggered the Reformation.
And so I prayerfully concluded that it would have been much worse to be a faithful Catholic in those days in comparison to today. Well, there was the small matter of the sex abuse scandal. But that makes my point. If my faith really depends on a faithful papacy, I am in trouble. I have to live my faith where it is really lived: In the simple parish.
Yep. It may happen often enough to fairly be considered consistent. The grand words and phrases are aimed in that very direction. It is confusing in as much as the distance between the orator and their aim is so great.