{"id":180754,"date":"2018-03-23T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=180754"},"modified":"2018-03-23T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:54:19","slug":"pro-life-democrat-lipinski-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-democrat-lipinski-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski defeats pro-abortion primary challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While science tells us<\/a> that life begins at conception<\/a>, there’s just one political party in Washington which seems to be adamantly against this science and what it means for preborn human life. Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) is one of the few pro-life Democrats left in the U.S. House of Representatives. Because of this, he almost lost his chance to remain in the House due to a primary challenge from small business owner Marie Newman, who had the support of pro-abortion organizations and even fellow Democrats. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee did not get involved.<\/p>\n

The race was called late Tuesday night<\/a> for Lipinski by the Associated Press, but Newman didn’t concede until Wednesday morning, via\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lipinski is one of three pro-life Democrats remaining in the House, along with Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Henry Cueller of Texas. That’s just 1.6 percent of House Democrats, as noted by<\/a> political correspondent Steve Kornacki — just three out of 193 Democrats.<\/p>\n

Given the scientific evidence, all politicians of all parties should be pro-life. Yet, again, only three<\/em>\u00a0House members of one of the major parties see this and vote accordingly. This is extreme, and is completely at odds with the beliefs of the American people, the majority of whom<\/a> would limit abortion to the first trimester and\/or very rare exceptions cases, and who also want abortion completely banned after 20 weeks. (Watch below as former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains a D&E, the most common second trimester abortion procedure, normally committed between 13 and 24 weeks of pregnancy.)<\/p>\n