The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) launched today its “Life Speaking Out” campaign to encourage House Republicans to add a family values plank to its economy-laden Legislative Blueprint – expected to be released after Labor Day.
The 1994 “Contract with America”–which jumpstarted the “Reagan Revolution”–failed to include pro-life or “family values” legislation. The SBA List, which seeks to cultivate and support pro-life candidates, wants to warn Republicans – who are poised to take control of the House in November –ignore pro-life and family value issues at their own political peril.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA List, said that any legislative blueprint must include a “family values” plank, which would include legislation that protects women from the violence of abortion, as well as taxpayers against paying for it.
In a letter to leadership, Dannenfelser wrote :
It would be an electorally costly mistake for the future for the GOP to write off one leg of the three-legged stool of Ronald Reagan conservatism – a sure way to divide the party right before the critical midterm elections.
“With the majority of Americans labeling themselves ‘pro-life,’ and with an even stronger majority agreeing that tax dollars should not fund abortion, the consensus for passage of serious pro-life legislation could not be stronger,” Dannenfelser said. “Real leaders multi-task. The strongly pro-life GOP leadership should be able to respond to the economic crisis and enact pro-life legislation.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Learn more about the SBA List’s “Life Speaking Out” campaign.
Read Dannenfelser’s letter to House Republican leadership.
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