Pro-life Democrats rally at Statehouse during Boston convention

Published: 2004-07-29

BOSTON (CNS) -- The 70 pro-life Democrats gathered in the great hall of the Massachusetts' Statehouse in Boston on the first day of the Democratic National Convention wore pins with the slogan "43 percent of Democrats can't be wrong." That figure comes from a Zogby poll, which found that 43 percent of Democrats believe abortion destroys a human life. "The Democratic Party at one time stood for the weak, the defenseless, the marginalized. Our party has drifted," said Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran at the July 26 dinner sponsored by Democrats for Life. Society's moral standards also drifted as Americans became indifferent to human life, he said, likening pro-life Democrats to "political missionaries" who must work "one soul, one vote, one idea, one at a time." Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, said that "being a pro-life Democrat isn't easy, as any of these delegates can tell you, but we're trying to change that."

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