Anti-Abortion Democrats May Seek Senate Seats [View All]

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Anti-Abortion Democrats May Seek Senate Seats
Sun Mar 6, 2005 12:36 PM ET

By Joanne Kenen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Democratic Party chief Howard Dean is promising to make foes of abortion more welcome, and some potential Senate candidates are already testing that message.

"We are going to embrace pro-life Democrats because pro-life Democrats care about kids after they're born, not just before they're born," Dean said recently in Mississippi as he tried to rekindle Democratic fires in the conservative South.

With the next congressional elections still more than a year-and-a-half away, anti-abortion rights Democrats may run in both Pennsylvania and Rhode Island -- and in Rhode Island the Democrat would be challenging one of the few Republican senators who backs abortion rights.

Pennsylvania state treasurer Robert Casey Jr., a strong abortion foe, recently announced plans to challenge Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a prominent social conservative who is closely identified with the anti-abortion movement and who will be one of the Democrats' top targets in 2006.

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