Republicans Respond to Pro-Abortion Health Care PR Campaign With Ballot Votes

An interesting story from www.LifeNews.com about abortion marketing.This follows this post about President Obama's Executive Order which pushed his health care plan over the top. This follows this post about Louisiana's abortion laws. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Republicans Respond to Pro-Abortion Health Care PR Campaign With Ballot VotesWashington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Republicans in several states are responding to the new $125 million publicity campaign by Democrats for the pro-abortion health care law with their own idea. Relying on polling data showing a strong majority of Americans opposed to the pro-abortion plan Obama signed, they're pushing ballot votes.
The ballot measures condemning or seeking to repeal President Barack Obama's health care scheme that involved massive taxpayer funding of abortions, could energize voters in key states.
Joel Sawyer, executive director of the South Carolina GOP, told The Hill: "What we're trying to do is give voters an added reason to show up to the polls. It’s a voter turnout tool.”
With ballot measures turning out an additional one to two percent of the base -- in this case pro-life advocates opposed to pro-abortion health care -- pro-life candidates have a better shot at getting the extra spark they need to win close elections.
Grover Norquist, a conservative anti-tax activist, says the ballot measures "will play to independents" and to the tea party voters that are more likely to turn out this year than abortion advocates.
He told The Hill that ballot measures have reliably turned out pro-life advocates -- such as when President George W. Bush won nine of 11 states in 2004 where voters could support bans on same-sex marriage. Norquist says as many as 1 million more voters for Bush came to the polls because of the ballot measures. Full story at LifeNews.com