Summary: With both major parties lacking clear support for the pro-life movement, Ben Domenech argues for case for a third party: The Party of Life. Charles Camosy, associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, discussed the political climate for pro-lifers, and Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News, discussed the logistics and legal challenges to get third party candidates on the ballot at state and federal levels. We need a party that behaves and focuses on this issue. One that elevates the pro-life agenda at the centerpiece its campaign, and does so in critical contests across the country where its a close race between a Republican and a Democrat, Domenech said. Camosy said there is a surprising amount of pro-life common ground existing in the American electorate. A lot of most peoples political commitments arent based on arguments or evidence...its more like a club or a tribe, he said. Pro-lifers for so many decades now...have just thought of the Republicans as their tribe.
