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Melinda, thank you for your heartfelt and eye-opening post on being a pro-life Democrat. I get frustrated enough being put on the defensive for being a women who is pro-life, without the added angst you have of feeling excluded from your own party. I've been trying to come up with a response to further the debate, but you put everything so well--enough with the fund-raisers and the noisemakers on both sides--and it's a little dull to write a post saying "Yes, I agree!"
But I am bothered by a broader problem related to the intolerance you've encountered. If we can't even be nice to the people on our own side when we disagree with them on one or two things, how ever are we supposed to start getting along with those whose worldviews are vastly different? I feel like, with the proliferation of Internet news and blogs and 24-hour news channels, we are subjecting ourselves to so much information that we have to be more selective than in the past, and many of us are winnowing out any information that doesn't mesh with our own ideology.
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