Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: tsowellfan
When it comes to abortion I am pro-life. I am also prochoice. I believe in the woman’s right to choose leaving her home without her face covered in a Burka. So far, Rudy appears to be failing me on both issues

Good one (although I might make an exception for Rosie O'Donnell)!

14 posted on 05/18/2007 8:40:46 AM PDT by Tabi Katz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]


To: Tabi Katz
There is something I am not getting on the abortion issue. I have never understood the Republican "moderate" position on this issue. I believe abortion is murder and should not be allowed. Period.

But I reckon that probably about 45% of my fellow voters believe otherwise. Today, those people have the "right" to procure an abortion anywhere in the country, and do so. How can we prevent this?

Would it not make sense to return this issue to the states, where it rested for most of our history? Many states would undoubtedly vote to end abortions, returning to earlier statutes in place since colonial times. However, how advocates of this strategy intend to accomplish this is a mystery to me. "Reversing Roe vs Wade?" How exactly would this get up to the USC now?

I think rolling back the "right" to abortion on this basis on a Federal Level has very little chance of success. More likely would be a new line of reasoning that might dissolve the weak link between "the right to privacy," already decided with the abortion issue entirely.

But so far, not one candidate has laid out the strategy for achieving what everyone on our side has stated as the goal.

15 posted on 05/18/2007 9:43:21 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Crazies to my left. Wimps to my right. BTW, Muslims ain't "Immigrants." They's Colonists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson