{"id":7617,"date":"2003-08-24T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/08\/24\/democrats-form-anti-abortion-group\/"},"modified":"2003-08-24T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2003-08-24T18:49:45","slug":"democrats-form-anti-abortion-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/08\/democrats-form-anti-abortion-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats form anti-abortion group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">ST. PAUL &#8212; Voters didn&rsquo;t believe Mary Ellen Otremba could be both a Democrat and against abortion when she first ran for the Minnesota House in 1997. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">When Sen. Dean Johnson was a Republican, no one had trouble accepting his anti-abortion stance. But when he switched to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party three years ago, many voters thought he also must have switched his abortion views. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The two legislators joined other Democrats Friday in launching the Minnesota chapter of Democrats for Life in hopes they can make other anti-abortion DFLers feel at home in their party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;&#8220;The Democratic Party is known as the party who helps people who can&rsquo;t help themselves,&#8221; Johnson said, adding that the concept should be applied to the unborn. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctrib.com\/Main.asp?SectionID=3&#038;SubSectionID=83&#038;ArticleID=16966\">Full Story<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL &#8212; Voters didn&rsquo;t believe Mary Ellen Otremba could be both a Democrat and against abortion when she first ran for the Minnesota House in 1997. When Sen. Dean&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}