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This campaign season has seen the rise of Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who describes himself as a socialist. While Sanders is running for the nomination of the Democratic party, it raises the question about how socialist groups view abortion and the right to life.<\/p>\n

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) describe\u00a0themselves\u00a0as “the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.” The website has a section on #WeNeedBernie<\/a>, which is also listed under their “Current Campaigns.”<\/a>\u00a0While “abortion” is not mentioned in the organization’s updated founding document<\/a>,\u00a0written over 1990-1995, “women” are\u00a0mentioned several times in a pro-abortion context. For instance, with added emphasis:<\/p>\n

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We are committed to full equality for women in all spheres of life, in a world without prescribed sex roles that channel women into subordinate positions at home and at work. We seek a world that no longer oppresses women through undervaluation of their work, lack of political representation, the inability to control their own fertility,<\/strong> denial of their sexuality, or violence and abuse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the group’s “Fact Sheets” includes a piece on “Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights,”<\/a> which is a pro-abortion and politicizing page, one which categorizes pro-lifers as “the Right” and accuses the United States – which has\u00a0some of the most relaxed abortion laws in the world <\/a>– of being\u00a0“so backward.”<\/p>\n

The Socialist Party USA, another self-described “democratic socialist\u00a0organization,” is pro-abortion, with the\u00a0\u00a0party’s platform<\/a>\u00a0listing abortion several times (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

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\u2022 We demand full support for every\u00a0woman’s right to choose when, if, and how to have children, including the right to free abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy<\/strong>, without interference or coercion. \u00a0Clinics providing abortion services must have the full protection of the law.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We call for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment and all other legislation that limits access to abortion services, thus denying “the right to choose” to millions of women, particularly low-income women, \u00a0women of color, and young women. \u00a0We demand full reproductive freedom for all women by removing all discriminating barriers to reproductive rights and reproductive health care.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We call for the abolition of parent\u00a0consent and notification laws<\/strong> for reproductive health services, including abortion.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We call for the right to comprehensive\u00a0sex education in school that includes birth control methods, STD protection, and information about being GLBTQ.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

SocialistWorker.org, published\u00a0by the International Socialist Organization (ISO), put out a pro-abortion piece <\/a>on this year’s anniversary of\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>, calling for an end to “compromises on abortion.”\u00a0<\/em>The ISO\u00a0considers<\/a> any<\/em> restrictions on abortion to be a form of “women’s oppression,” calling them “attacks on contraception and abortion.” Pro-life views regarding preborn children are\u00a0“ridiculous ideals” to these Democratic Socialists.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Sanders agrees with these views, as Live Action’s Calvin Freiburger reported previously<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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On his campaign website<\/a>, Sanders makes a number of radical pro-abortion promises: that his every judicial nominee would not only uphold\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but also \u201crecognize the rights of women to have access to family planning services\u201d\u2014i.e., the courts would force private employers to cover potentially\u00a0abortion-inducing drugs<\/a>\u2014and that he would force the American people to give even more of their tax dollars to abortion, Planned Parenthood, and abortifacient birth control, by \u201cexpand[ing], not cut[ting], funding for Planned Parenthood, the Title X family planning program, and other initiatives that protect women\u2019s health, access to contraception, and the availability of a safe and legal abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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