Posted on 08/29/2012 12:26:07 PM PDT by Hilda
I’m shocked!! I mean look at his record!! oh...um, ok I’m not so shocked.
Abortion is not going anywhere. Sorry. Educating people is how you stop abortion, and also not funding it.
But asking politicians to flat out ban it is as realistic as asking them to take away women’s right to vote. Its not gonna happen.
Do you think Romney will pass pro-choice policies?
She's right, he won't. That isn't an enumerated federal power. Per the 9th Amendment, it is up to the STATES to decide whether they want to ban it, and Roe v. Wade unconstitutionally establishes a new power for the FedGov: policing abortion.
Abortion is being beat back at the state level. We must focus on getting more power to the states. Sick as it is, I think Romney was being honest when he said that RomneyCare was OK for Mass, but not for the US. I think he was expressing the difference between state powers and federal powers.
The President can’t wave a wand and ban abortion.
RIGHT ON!
“Mitt Romney would never make abortions illegal as president, Jane Romney said when National Journal asked her about the subject after a Women for Mitt event. “Hes not going to be touching any of that, she said. Its not his focus. “
Translation:
Mitt Romney would never make abortions illegal as president, Jane Romney said when National Journal asked her about the subject after a Women for Mitt event. “He just had to support it by saying the right things to get the nomination, she said. Conservatives believed him! Ha!
Then fight it at the state level, or fight to overturn Roe v Wade, the source of fedgov's unconstitutional power to force abortions on states.
Presidents do not overturn SCOTUS decisions. They put in justices that do that.
Balderdash.
I’m thinking you’ve never even read the Ninth Amendment, much less understood it.
And you obviously don’t have a clue about the basis for this republic, which is the self-evident truth about equal God-given, unalienable rights, starting with the right to live.
Other than the supreme right, the right to life, which other of our God-given rights do you believe states can alienate if they want to?
Of course he cannot ban abortion outright but he can reverse every pro abortion move Obama has made...and that is quite a lot.
I see a whole lot of anti freepers who are almost always soft on culture issues slinking back in...wonder if they still post at the alt sites with their vitriol for us and their cruel comments on JR
they have a lot of gall to cruise back in now with our uber moderate nominee and lecture us on shutting up on social issues
in case ya’ll missed it...I detest you...and you all know who you are
you may be able to fool freepers who just came on the last 4-5 years but the rest of us remember you
but if you are gonna be here acting like Romney walks on water you can at least donate to the freepathons...that would be a help
I wasnt aware that the president could ban abortion.
Exactly! But what he can do is appoint only Supreme Court judges who will overturn Roe v. Wade. Another way: Congress can take the issue out of the Courts jurisdiction. This would put the issue back in the states, where it belongs under the Constitution.
States can do whatever they want with the abortion issue, under the Constitution (correctly read). Roe v. Wade invented things which are not in the Constitution, and should be ignored and overturned. It would be simple for a President just to say, we will not enforce Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately, no President has the guts to do this.
Kennedy and Scalia will never retire if Obama is reelected but these two almost assuredly will in the next eight years if Romney is elected.
Liberals appoint liberal SC Justices it not rocket science folks.
Unconstitutional court opinions don't change the chief executive's sacred obligation to God and his country to support and defend the Constitution of the United States one iota.
Ryan needs to distance himself from Romney tonight so he can run effectively in 2016.
http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm
Gallup Poll. May 3-6, 2012. N=1,024 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 4.
“Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?”
Always legal 25%
Sometimes legal 52%
Always illegal 20%
Unsure 3%
I have no idea of the accuracy of this poll but the link has more results.
I appointed conservative judges. 75% of the judges he appointed were extremely pro-abortion & pro gay. That means 25% are conservative, so being the lawyer he is, technically he did appoint conservatives; but only 25%.
better...Dems haven't had to say shite really
That line is getting quite old and dated. It bespeaks a time before science and technology. It dates a women's understanding to that of the mid- to early-20th Century when there was lack of sufficient visual and microscopic evidence that the earliest stage of human development is, in fact, a little person, not a blob of flesh which could be called by a nondescript word, "fetus," or, that the "fetus" is, in fact, a separate entity.
That line dates a woman's intellectual understanding to a time before cameras could record the actions of the little child in the womb, allowing them to see that child reacting to noises in the kitchen where dinner was being prepared, the child burping or sucking its thumb.
Indeed, the word "choice," as it applies to the question of life before the usual delivery time, is a unique and misleading term.
Why does the law declare a "right to choose" to be necessary and proper for women who, that same government insists, cannot possess an identical "right to choose" the school where that child, if delivered must receive its education?
That line leads one to wonder: what about the "choices" of all the millions of women who were aborted in the womb, when they were just tiny miracles of the Creator and endower of life and rights?
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