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To: coca-cola kid

I think Fred was responding in a manner that opposes the radical side of the pro-life activists who may have suggested jail. He was saying that you cannot go to the extreme with any federal laws. At least that’s how I took it.


4 posted on 11/08/2007 12:07:43 PM PST by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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To: truthluva

An analogy: murder is a state offense, unless federal blah blah. Why should the age of the victim federalize the crime?

We have far too much federal intrusion into state and personal issues. Conservatives should not run roughshod over the Constitution just because we stand on high moral ground.


14 posted on 11/08/2007 12:12:21 PM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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"...was putting girls in prison over abortions ever really on the table?"

No.

From the very beginning --- eve, if you want to put it this way, before the beginning --- the prolife movement has seen the woman as the second victim of abortion. As in the slogan "Abortion: One Dead, One Injured." And in the slogan, "Women Deserve Better."

I say "before the beginning" because the first pro-life pregnancy centers, which had the name "Birthright," were started in 1967, 5 years before Roe vs Wade. And at present, there are more pro-life pregnancy centers than there are abortion clinics. We have always fought abortion by empowering women --- especially young and poor women --- with the support and the resources they need to give birth with dignity and confidence.

I've been active isn the pro-life movement for 30 years, I've traveled all over the country (and in Canada and 4 countries in Europe) and there isn't any "radical side of the pro-life activists." I've never I've never personally heard anybody--- except pro-abortionists---talk about "jailing women."

31 posted on 11/08/2007 12:29:03 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Free Republic, an all-purpose Internet forum, salon, and barfight.)
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To: truthluva

Who ARE these people, cckid? I’ve not met any in my 32 years as a pro-lifer. Bob


69 posted on 11/08/2007 1:25:56 PM PST by alstewartfan
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