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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Mississippi voters are weighing the stakes of a governor's election where neither Republican Tate Reeves nor Democrat Brandon Presley backs abortion rights.
The Democratic Party has been critical of Iran's nuclear weapon program and supported economic sanctions against the Iranian government. [77] In 2013, the Democratic led administration worked to reach a diplomatic agreement with the government of Iran to halt the Iranian nuclear weapon program in exchange for international economic sanction ...
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.
The Democratic Party also favors expansion of conservation lands and encourages open space and rail travel to relieve highway and airport congestion and improve air quality and the economy as it "believe[s] that communities, environmental interests, and the government should work together to protect resources while ensuring the vitality of ...