[Notary Sojac]

As stated by your conservative candidate:

"Mr. Candidate, if a twelve-year old girl is raped by her uncle, should she be required by law to continue the pregnancy to full term and give birth? Yes or no, sir???"

"Yes. But while the circumstances of the conception are tragic and undeniably wrong, it will not make it better to murder the unborn child, but will simply make it worse for the mother."

As it will appear on every nightly news show, every night up until the election:

"Mr. Candidate, if a twelve-year old girl is raped by her uncle, should she be required by law to continue the pregnancy to full term and give birth? Yes or no, sir???"

"Yes."

[Joe 6-pack]

I think a well scripted and rehearsed answer would be to counter the question (much as Santorum did) with something to the effect of, "If the guilty rapist isn't going to be subject to the death penalty, I see no reason why the innocent unborn child should be."

Put it in terms of life and death, guilt and innocence. Maybe even add a, "Do you?" to the end of it and put the reporter on the defensive...insist that the reporter answer the rejoinder.

[SoConPubbie]

Exactly.

Until our candidate refuse to equivocate about right and wrong, we will continue to lose.

Our candidates need to lead from a sincere position of principle, not perform a risk analysis before answering every question.