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How the GOP Has the Wrong Approach to Abortion
Realville, USA ^ | Nov 11, 2012 | Ombud

Posted on 11/11/2012 8:55:29 PM PST by SquarePants

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A few links and the video are on the blog. The YouTube link for the Ryan/Biden debate is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GDiZpZlqkGw

1 posted on 11/11/2012 8:55:35 PM PST by SquarePants
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To: SquarePants

Another one that does not understand the enemy. Abortion is central to the leftist agenda—utterly central. Not possible to divorce it from that agenda in any way that would seemingly placate a useful idiot for leftism.


2 posted on 11/11/2012 8:58:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SquarePants

Here’s my approach. Saving lives.

From my home page:

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I’ve posted this in a couple of places and it doesn’t seem to get much more than a yawn, even though it’s kinda-sorta an incremental approach.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908148/posts?page=125#125

I believe a fetus is a human being who deserves protection under the law from being killed.
***I do too. That fetus deserves protection extended by the state.

I do wonder if it is biblical to extend “full” protection to a fetus? I.e. when a man hurts a pregnant woman, he’s expected to pay an eye for an eye & a tooth for a tooth. But if the unborn baby is killed, the price is not the same.

Perhaps it is time to consider a 3 (or even 4) tiered system of protection.

Tier 1: Living, viable, late term baby which will not be aborted unless the life of the mother is at stake.

Tier 2: Living, not-yet-viable pre-born human who should have the right to protection and life and a safe womb to which it can attain viability. Cannot be aborted unless there is an open rape case associated with the pregnancy or the life of the mother is at stake.

Tier 3: Living, early stage, not yet viable pre-born human for whom we do not extend the rights of life in this society because of a historical snag where we once considered such tissue not to be a baby. We as a society thought it was best to consider it a private decision. I personally do not believe in Tier3 abortions, but I can understand that there are many who think it is a “right to choose” at this stage. It may be time to consider a program where the woman declares her pregnancy and intent to abort. Our societal function at this point would be to provide a family that is willing to adopt this baby and to put up this woman for 6-8 months in a safe environment so the baby can grow and maybe the woman can learn some life skills. If our society cannot muster the forces necessary to save this baby, the woman has the sickening “right” to abort this pregnancy. Time for us to put up or shut up.

With a 3-tiered plan in place, women would stop using abortion as a means of birth control. Millions of lives would be saved. We would extend the right to life to every human that we have resources to save. Unfortunately, if we cannot put up the resources to save the Tier3 babies, we still would have this horrible practice staining our nation’s soul.

125 posted on 10/08/2007 1:43:20 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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3 posted on 11/11/2012 8:58:59 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: SquarePants

Every pro-lifer needs to read this.


4 posted on 11/11/2012 8:59:17 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: SquarePants

People like Biden, Pelosi and any other Democrat whose proclaimed religion prohibits abortion always fall back on, “I won’t force my religious beliefs on others.” Therefore they can say, “It’s between a woman and her doctor.” This has been the standard argument for at least 10 years.


5 posted on 11/11/2012 9:00:16 PM PST by opticks
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To: SquarePants

Personally I think the GOP aught to stop speaking about abortion, get themselves elected and then DO something about abortion.


6 posted on 11/11/2012 9:00:52 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: SquarePants
Proper use of Christian Apologetics involves both an emphasis on faith, and an emphasis on reason. Tertullian famously declared that he "believed it because it was absurd" -- but this is not a good position. Faith should be in your heart by the grace of the Holy Spirit, but reason should also be in your mind, explaining why the belief is correct and not absurd at all.

Abortion is wrong on every level, and Republicans should be able to make that case in a variety of compelling ways.

7 posted on 11/11/2012 9:01:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Global Warming is a religion, and I don't want to be taxed to pay for a faith that is not mine.)
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You high minded country club republicans go your way and poke your finger in the eye of God.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

8 posted on 11/11/2012 9:05:03 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: SquarePants

You know, I bet a lot of women are pro-life. I guess they don’t count any more?


9 posted on 11/11/2012 9:05:16 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Abortion is wrong on every level, and Republicans should be able to make that case in a variety of compelling ways. “

Just like being against stealing and bribery. Nobody says he struggled with his faith to conclude that stealing and bribery is wrong.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 9:05:47 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: SquarePants

It’s all a moot point now.

National judgement is coming.

GOD HIMSELF will pry the “right to abortion” out of America’s cold dead hands.


11 posted on 11/11/2012 9:06:15 PM PST by Rytwyng (I'm still fond of the United States. I just can't find it. -- Fred Reed)
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“But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child.”

Mother Theresa


12 posted on 11/11/2012 9:08:33 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Beowulf9

When Bush and Congress, under Republican control, did very little to control abortion, it was apparent to me that nothing would ever change. Republicans and conservatives should pretty much forget about it. It’s like alcohol; prohibition is long over and the genie ain’t going back in the bottle.


13 posted on 11/11/2012 9:09:09 PM PST by opticks
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It isn’t going to be changed until a large majority of women decided that they want it changed, and until such time, not only is it pointless to discuss, you will not be elected if you do, so just drop it.

Furthermore, it seems that when conservatives do venture to discuss it, they are SO UTTERLY UNABLE to advance their position with any sort convincing arguments that it is just shocking.


14 posted on 11/11/2012 9:13:18 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: SquarePants

Maybe we might want to try running a proven PRO-LIFE candidate for president next time...

ya know

just for fun and giggles

and to see if WE JUST MIGHT WIN...

HELLO ???


15 posted on 11/11/2012 9:14:31 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Well, maybe they should start by educating people about the real purpose of abortion and its roots in the Eugenics Movement.

The elites felt that certain groups should not procreate, so they started the push for abortion and wrapped in the lie of compassion for people in poverty who can't afford children etc.

Since Roe v Wade, there has been a Holocaust as the most innocent of lives has been snuffed out. The majority of abortions are to black babies.

Abortion is a racist, bigoted, and genocidal policy supported by the same party that supported the KKK - Democrats.

Our Declaration of Independence was for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and the Democrats won't stand up for the life of the most innocent of all. A definite lack of compassion and pursuit of evil.

16 posted on 11/11/2012 9:17:41 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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The biggest problem confronting us is stupid voters. These idiots think we have a “war on women”. They will vote for people who promise free contraceptives and free “womens health services” which they can purchase relatively easy with their own money if they so choose. Meanwhile, they will put people in office who will control everything in their lives from their automobiles to their toilets. Go figure.


17 posted on 11/11/2012 9:21:16 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: SquarePants
That's because the RINO GOP-e was handling the issue, as if they were embarrassed to be pro-life.
18 posted on 11/11/2012 9:21:55 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: chris37

The Republican response should have always been along the lines of, “Our country decided to legalize abortion in 1973 with Roe v. Wade; my personal beliefs have no bearing on this. But if you look at (then continue with negative attack against other guy on a tangential issue)”

I may be wrong on this, but where are the female politicians calling for an end to abortion? I know there are a few out there, but most of the time it seems to be the men who are in front of the camera or at the podium. On the left, the women are always hollering about the “right to choose”


19 posted on 11/11/2012 9:27:47 PM PST by opticks
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