Posted on 09/01/2012 7:45:13 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Thanks to one of my Facebook friends, I was just today alerted to the interview Romney gave CBS news on 8/27/2012. The video is here. In the interview, Romney says, "My position has been clear throughout this campaign. I'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother."
The health of the mother exception is universally recognized by authentic pro-lifers as a loophole you can drive Roe v. Wade through. Then Romney makes the following statement, clearly putting an end to any notion that he is pro-life in any meaningful sense of the term:
"But recognize, this is the decision that will be made by the Supreme Court. The Democrats try and make this a political issue every four years, but this is a matter in the courts; it's been settled for some time in the courts...."
Translation: Pro-life is whatever the Supreme Court says it is. Romney's statement proves that with his nomination, the Republican Party effectively ceases to be the Party of Lincoln. Lincoln recognized that where a fundamental issue of unalienable rights is involved, no Supreme Court decision that fails to respect the principles of America's Declaration of Independence "settles the issue." By contrast, what we hear in Romney's interview is the slavish surrender of unchecked, unconstitutional, just plain tyrannical power to the federal courts. Did the Dred Scott decision in 1857 settle the issue of slavery? Not for Lincoln. No more can the present U.S. Supreme Court's pro-abortion jurisprudence settle the issue of abortion for us. In keeping with the Lincolnian heritage, the pro-life movement has been rooted in the Declaration's avowal of the Creator-endowed, equal, unalienable right to life. That's one of the things that made the Party of Lincoln its natural home.
But with Romney as its standard bearer, the GOP no longer upholds that avowal. To be sure, the GOP platform still makes cynical use of language drawn from America's Declaration heritage. But with his words, Romney rejects Lincoln's Declaration statesmanship; his articulation of the just cause of the Civil War; and his affirmation that the American people should never allow the Union to be dissolved on grounds that overthrow the indispensable principle of just self-government the Declaration articulates.
In this interview, Romney aims a death blow at the soul of the pro-life political cause. The timing of the interview was no accident. The evening before the vote that sealed his nomination as the GOP candidate for President, Romney makes a clear and emphatic statement nullifying the GOP's supposed platform commitment to the Declaration cause of the pro-life movement. So-called pro-life leaders and voters who back Romney cannot now deny that he stands openly within the political precincts of pro-abortion hell. As his supporters, they stand there with him. What we hear in Romney's CBS interview is the sound of the precincts' gates clanging shut behind them all. As I forewarned repeatedly: Romney's candidacy is a snare (Psalm 64:5), beware of falling into it.
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What about pro-abortion capitalists? Calling Romney a socialist is a stretch and Ryan is no socialist.
YOU WILL NOT GET ANYTHING ACCOMPLISHED running as a 3rd Party spoiler, other than giving us 4 more years of Obama.
Sing it, Brother!
Absolutely.
I don’t vote for pro-aborts.
And they are socialists.
Romney implemented socialized medicine. I’m surprised you missed that.
And both of them fully support the most important aspects of the New Deal and the Great Society.
——Obama Administration. -——???
There might be others paying?
BUT whatever the crimes of the parents the child is always innocent.
True. But how does the victim of a crime become the perp?
This Abortion argument is just one example.
No it wasn't. It was from last Monday.
Romney is part socialist, you are right about that, and your stance on voting pro-life is valid and commendable. You may be forgetting that Obama is in favor of euthanasia and Romney is not. Also I can’t agree on your 2016 gamble. By that point we will have Romney or we will be even more screwed economically. The antidote to death and socialism will be a gamble on a third party or reformed GOP.
You’re either for killing babies, or you’re not for killing babies. You can’t be a little bit for killing babies.
Sorry. That’s absolutist bunk. If the Mother makes the decision to have and keep the child (and there are many), I say you’re a wonderful human being. But, I refuse to force that decision.
When it comes to RTL Obama and Romney have the same position ~ there is no difference whatsoever.
After two previous decades of trying to do exactly that, I've been asserting that such reforms were impossible for the last five years. And the events in Tampa make it crystal clear that I'm right. The Romney Republican jackbooted thugs stomped grassroots conservatives into the dust.
Excellent article, EV. Let Dr. Keyes know that the republican party has returned to the liberalism from which Reagan led it.
I do not believe in my heart that it will again be redeemed.
No piece of legislation has ever changed hearts. Abortion will pass into history not because it was made illegal by imposition but because public opinion will demand the outlaw of this heinous and morally repugnant act. In this it is following the same curve as the outlaw of slavery. The 14th Amendment was the result of the anti-slavery movement, not its cause. And so it can only be with abortion.
My position is very simple.
“There is no greater love than to lay down your life for a friend.” (John 15:13, my paraphrase)
Questions:
Are we commanded to lay down our life?
What are the implications if we don’t lay down our life?
In the case of rape or incest then, I will dissent to the will of the mother if she feels that she is “laying down her life” - against her will.
I hold this position knowing too that IN MOST CASES, victims of rape or incest more often than not, would rather give birth to the child, than face the additional violation of abortion.
In fact, studies show that more often than not, women having abortions feel coerced.
The solution? Information on the alternatives to abortion is key. Second, laws that prohibit coercion in any form.
Islam tolerates killings inside the family. We are not barbarians. They are barbarians. Abortion rights involve the insertion of Sharia law into the American system.
I don't believe it. Remember, Terri Schindler Schiavo was killed by Bush Republicans, all of whom are now Romney Republicans.
The ‘health’ exception is unlimited, unregulated abortion on demand. Pull us back to what?
“Sorry, you people are barbarians and your opinions aren’t worth scat. “
You basically told 85% of the country that their opinions don’t matter. Good luck with that.
If you force a raped woman to have the rapists baby, YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE HER AND HER FAMILY SUFFER MORE. In most cases far more. It’s also forcing the rapists will on his victim.
People like you absolutely refuse to admit this fact.
Blame the rapists for creating this situation, not the victim.
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