Democrats and Pro-Abortion Groups Ready for a Change of Rhetoric

(from LifeSiteNews.com) - Since the crushing defeat of the Democrats in the last election, the party’s spin doctors have been crafting a new approach to abortion without making any moves to abandon their basic premise that babies can be killed at will.

Democratic think tank, the Third Way, billing itself as a “strategy center for progressives” attempting to reverse the social tide in the US towards traditional values, says that the Democrat party and abortion groups need to change their rhetoric.

The think tank is focusing on abortion with “a series of briefing papers on abortion, with policy and messaging that will help progressives win the war of ideas.” Newsweek has obtained a brief from the Third Way that shows the country is locked into polarized positions but that most of the public falls into the undecided category which the brief calls, 'grays'. “We've now gotten locked in a frame and policies for 30 years that speak to the polars but don't speak to the grays,” says Third Way president Jon Cowan.

With the retirement of the key swing voter on the US Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, the aging forces of abortion support in the US are gearing up for a new fight. This stage will be one in which the subtleties of linguistic manipulation will be a key weapon.

Even Planned Parenthood is attempting to move away from its militant image. “We've gotten a little far away from talking with people very much from the heart,” admits Karen Pearl, interim president of Planned Parenthood.

Last month, Party chairman Howard Dean met with the group, Democrats for Life, an organization of Democrats attempting to move the party away from its support of abortion while returning it to its pre-1960’s roots. Dean told the party's national finance board that though he did not want to change the party’s position that abortion should always remain available. He did, however, want to “reframe” the issue to make it more palatable. Former DNC head Steve Grossman said, “He said he wanted to take 'abortion' out of the political lexicon.”

Read the Newsweek report here.