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I had that "conversation" at length with a fellow platform committee member for a district convention in Texas. She absolutely would not accept the argument that it is better to save some babies now, and continue working on saving the rest. She stated (correctly) that if Congress removed the abortion issue from Federal jurisdiction, then it would be harder to make sure all states banned it.
Understand, all it would take is a majority vote in both houses to remove it from the SC's jurisdicti
The issue of course is that Independents are independently-minded on this (and a host of other issues). I strongly support RKBA and the other BoR Amendments, Capital Punishment, small government, but I still believe that it is an individual choice whether to go through with an abortion. The Individual's circumstances, upbringing and religious (and other) morals need to be the deciding factor - not some politician, whether a federal or a state flavored one. The choice is tough, but it is personal
How is it a violation of religious liberty to insist that individual rights be extended equally to all living human individuals, including those who have not finished being born? If we arbitrarily abrogate the rights of living human individuals simply because they are not fully capapble of caring for themselves, we advocate the same policies that laid a foundation for eugenics, euthanasia, forced sterilization and the like last century.
Certainly there are those who support equal rights for
Below are three excellent examples of the three main approaches to the issue of abortion. My point as a reporter is to take the public's pulse and to be as objective as possible, because educated readers make better citizens. (Notice that I didn't state my own beliefs on the issue, and also notice that the three respondents did not make personal attacks against me for what I wrote.)
I would make one point from what Armed Geek said. Constitutionally speaking, the fellow platform committee memb
I would make one point from what Armed Geek said. Constitutionally speaking, the fellow platform committee member walks on pretty thin ice by insisting on their right to "make sure all states banned" abortion. It is this kind of behavior that the media loves to use to ensure that prospective members steer clear of the GOP.
We either support the Bill of Rights, in this case the Tenth Amendment, or we support bigger government, with enough power to force everybody to follow an abortion ban.
I can just about guarantee that if a federal ban were enacted, it would be successfully challenged on First and Tenth Amendment issues, and we would have created all that anger towards conservatives for nothing, and end up losing credibility and influence. I will take this up more in part 2.
Just some food for thought.
What Lou has said could be said about murder or rape or robbery or any damn thing else.
My religious upbringing permits murder in the commission of obtaining what I wish to obtain, sex or money and goods, my morals certainly embrace that philosophy and no politician should decide I can't exercise my beliefs.
Seems a little too likely to lend itself to barbarism, doesn't it?
SA: You see the logic error there? Western law, religion, and history all agree on the definition of murder. Abortion has its roots in religion, not established science. BTW, Islam condones murder of infidels, but not unborn babies.
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