December 20, 2023
Bad news keeps rolling in for the Democrat Party and the abortion industrial complex that they are equal parts happy to defend and promote while also hiding behind. The Democrat Party is losing support amongst Catholics and has steadily since 1972, according to reporting and data collected in a news story on LifeNews.com:
“A new study is showing that Catholics have been abandoning the Democratic Party as the political faction increasingly embraces abortion extremism. According to data collected and analyzed by Ryan Burge, research director at Faith Counts, the past 50 years have seen white Catholics leaving the Democratic Party and beginning to coalesce around the GOP.
“In 1972, for example, 67% of white Catholics were Democrats and only 21% were Republicans, according to data from the General Social Survey. By 2021, only 36% of white Catholics were aligned with the Democratic Party, while white Catholics registered as Republicans more than doubled, rising to 44%. Additionally, white Catholics registered as independent voters rose from 12% in 1972 to 20% in 2021, although Burge noted that “a huge portion of independent white Catholics vote for the Republicans at the ballot box.”
This is hardly surprising, given the recent hard swing to abortion that the Democrat Party writ-large has embraced, with the Biden Administration especially pushing hard for abortion policies more extreme than those under Roe. In a earlier Students for Life Action blog post, we recounted how the pro-abortion Democratic Party has been working hard to make abortion permanent again. From the blog:
“The Women’s Health Protection Act would allow abortions to be conducted up until birth nationwide, without any ability for the states to push back, demand taxpayer funding, and trample on the conscience rights of medical professionals. When you add that measure to the Democrats repeated opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, their policy allows even infanticide for those born during botched abortions.”
What’s more, is that the singular focus that the Democrat Party has on abortion could backfire among these Catholics. According to reporting from NBC:
“Asked if there was one issue that’s so important they would vote for or against a candidate based on that issue alone, 19% of registered voters answered with protecting democracy or constitutional rights, while 18% said abortion was their single-most important issue. Those responses were followed by immigration or border security (14%), guns (9%), the Israel-Hamas war (5%) and LGBTQ issues (4%). One in five voters said none of the issues listed would be so important to determine their vote for or against a candidate.”
READ: Of Course the Democrats Hated Roe – It Didn’t Go Far Enough
In fairness, this is hardly a new story angle on the issue of Catholics, Democrats, and abortion. Numerous articles have been penned over the years, talking about pro-life Catholic voters moving on:
- In a Politico article from 2009: “…Catholics are a constituency that backs the reform effort itself. To alienate them on abortion could be to alienate them on health care reform.”
- In a 2022 poll from Gallop: “…it’s certainly safe to conclude that Biden’s Catholicism did not result in a startling or substantial uptick in support for the Democratic ticket among Biden’s fellow Catholics compared with Democratic performance among Catholics in previous elections.”
What’s different now, however, is that we are now in the post-Roe era, and abortion is no longer protected. What’s also not likely to help Biden’s Democrats with Catholics is his administration’s ham-handed dealings with traditional Catholics and pro-life groups. According to reporting from the Washington Times: “The FBI has not fired anyone involved in drafting the memo that labeled “traditional Catholics” as potential domestic terrorists because their overstep was not “intentional,” FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told Congress.”
Coincidentally, pro-life Catholics aren’t the only ones at risk of abandoning the Democrat Party. The youth vote is heading for the exits, as well, according to reporting from The Hill: “A New York Times/Siena College survey released Monday showed Biden virtually tied with Trump among voters younger than 30, with 30 percent backing Biden and 29 percent backing Trump. Thirty-four percent said they backed independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
African American voters are likewise walking away, according to reporting from Politico: “…a prominent Democratic data firm published a report outlining declining support for Democrats in last year’s midterm elections among younger Black voters, Black men and Black voters without college degrees.”
Hispanic voters are also leaving according to a report at Axios: “Latinos are an increasingly important voting bloc, representing 18.7% of the U.S. population and growing. The poll found that by nearly 3 to 1, Latinos say Democrats care more about them than Republicans, a declining but still dominant share. But 32% of all respondents said neither Democrats nor Republicans care about Latinos. That’s up from 28% last October and 25% a year ago. 40% of respondents said it’s a bad time to be a Latino or Hispanic person in America, up from 31% last October and 29% a year ago.”
As the 2024 election gets closer, you can expect more and more discussion around abortion disguised as “freedom” in numerous states and races – the abortion lobby have made it no secret they want to catapult Democrats into office on the back of their issue.
The Pro-Life Generation won’t let them use preborn children as a way for bad politicians to dodge accountability.
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