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A sign at the 1976 Democratic National Convention reading "Freedom of Choice". This and the slogan "right to choose" prefigured the popularity of the term pro-choice. [3] The term pro-choice entered currency after pro-life and was coined by those who supported legal abortion as a response to the success of the pro-life branding.
In the United States, the National Right to Life Committee is the largest right-to-life organization. [3] The right-to-life movement is often associated with Christianity (especially Catholicism) and the Republican Party, but groups such as Secular Pro-Life and Democrats for Life of America hold anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia views for other ...
In a 2009 Gallup Poll, a majority of U.S. adults (51%) called themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion—for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995—while 42% identified themselves as "pro-choice", [80] although pro-choice groups noted that acceptance of the "pro-life" label did not in all cases indicate opposition ...
Democrats and aligned groups on Friday criticized a new shift from Republicans to move away from "pro-life" messaging on abortion. Democrats say Republican effort to rebrand 'pro-life' won't ...
Inclusive democracy is a political theory and political project that aims for direct democracy in all fields of social life: political democracy in the form of face-to-face assemblies which are confederated, economic democracy in a stateless, moneyless and marketless economy, democracy in the social realm, i.e. self-management in places of work ...
Peter S. Wenz explains the support of school vouchers, writing: "Social conservatives favor vouchers because they allow religion to be taught in government-funded schools, and they think religion is the firmest foundation for the moral development that students need to become productive, law-abiding citizens."
Democracy in America (1835–1840) Notes on Democracy (1926) I'll Take My Stand (1930) Our Enemy, the State (1935) The Managerial Revolution (1941) Ideas Have Consequences (1948) God and Man at Yale (1951) The Conservative Mind (1953) The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) A Choice Not an Echo (1964) A Conflict of Visions (1987) The Closing of ...
In 1999, Democrats for Life of America was founded to coordinate, at a national level, the efforts of anti-abortion Democrats. In the 1960s and 1970s, anti-abortion Democrats comprised a substantial portion of the party's membership in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.