Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
Liberal conjecture about the "Republican" postion on abortion, the RNC is not running for president, Mitt Romney is. Governor Romney has been quite clear that he favors outlawing abortion with exceptions for rape, incest, and the health of the mother, a position shared by 75% of Americans. As a Catholic, I sympathize with women who were victims of sexual predators, but I am also concerned for the innocent unborn. As these cases represent less than 2% of all pregnacies (though admittedly that number would go up if they were the exceptions), I wonder how many lives might be saved if the GOP would stipulate.
During the convention, I witnessed CNN eunuch mistate Romney's postion multiple times. I believe he did so delibrately, and was apalled that a respected news organization did nothing to correct him.
Murdering helpless human beings seems extreme to me. Just sayin’.
No. The Republican position on abortion has been consistent since before we all were born.Now we are extreme?It is the other side who has in the last 50 years moved further and further in a direction that minimizes human life.Abortion is just one area where that is true.
Romney’s exception exempt’s not one single female in the world.
*“My position has been the same throughout my political career, and it goes back to the days of 1970,” he said. “There was a woman who was running for political office, U.S. Senate. She took a very bold and courageous stand in 1970, and that was in a conservative state. That was that a woman should have the right to make her own choice as to whether or not to have an abortion. Her name was Lenore Romney, she was my mom. Even though she lost, she established a record of courage in that regard.”*
The courage that he says she instilled may have been what enabled Mitt Romney to announce this week that he was returning to his pro-abortion position, and was never anything but, and to say with a straight face, that he had openly campaigned as a ‘health of mother’ abortion advocate.
Good read. Thanks for the post.
How would they feel if they were the ones aborted?
Why is it OK for bullies to kill innocent babies?
While i think it is extreme to demand that a woman carry her rapists baby, most republicans don’t agree with that as a policy. It’s not even close.
However, MOST democrats agree with absolutely no limits right till delivery. And the psychopath Obama even ENTHUSIASTICALLY supports killing the ones who have successfully been delivered despite the attempt to kill them.
To show how extreme the US Democrat party has become, consider this. What on earth is more radical than a Swedish feminist? Here is the current law in Sweden that their feminists are happy with.
” The current legislation is the Abortion Act of 1974 (SFS 1974:595). This states that up until the end of the eighteenth week of the pregnancy the choice of an abortion is entirely up to the woman, for any reason whatsoever. After the 18th and until the 22nd week a woman needs a permission from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) to have an abortion. Permission for these late abortions is usually granted for cases in which the fetus or mother are unhealthy.”
If we tried to pass this here, the Dems would utterly freak out. They are orders of magnitude more radical than a Swedish feminist.
At one time some in the media claimed that both parties were extreme on slavery. But then right and wrong are the extremes of any issue.
I have not followed this debate until akin muttered his ignorance so I may have missed the debate over how the funding
for raising all these new members of society will be handled. Once the mandate that all birth control be eliminated
is in place, what tax mechanism will be used?
The Left advocates abortion any time, any place, any where in any way. Medical care for babies born alive in botched abortions? Too extreme; it might live. Giving birth feet first, stabbing the back of the skull, evacuating brains and collapsing the cranium? Not extreme; the baby dies.
Well, you all get the picture. They wrap it up in a pretty pink bow as freedom, as reproductive rights, but they don't explain that it means in the real world nor will they allow anyone to inform these women of the details. It's too ghastly, too extreme, too hurtful to inform them, to educate.
Any women describing herself as pro-choice attaches her character, provides her imprimatur, to the whole abortion machine.
Notice we never hear about pro-choicers saying "except in cases of late term," or this procedure or that caveat. It's always framed as I let the woman decide; it's not up to me to offer any conditions, to think, to reflect... 'lalala I can't hear you' or 'Leave my body alone you extremist!'
Come on, just tell the truth.
60 million babies have been aborted for the "health of the mother".
That's pro-abortion.
Quite right. Both parties ARE, extremist -- pro-choice extremists, to be exact. The difference is that one party is honest about it, while the other lies.
“The party’s former chairman, Michael Steele, told an interviewer that omitting rape and incest exceptions from an abortion ban would be “way outside [the] mainstream of American thought.””
To me, the problem is that once you start down this road, “great minds” like Kathleen Sebelius, John Holdren, or whatever other “enlightened” lackey will end up deciding whose life is or is not worth saving. Progressives are naturally drawn to this scenario. In fact that’s what they have been all about for more than 100 years. The more nuanced wing of the progressive movement pulled in its horns between 1933 and 1945, when they became embarrassed by the undo enthusiasm with which some German progressives went about their work. Alright, we’re all human and prone to step on our schwantz now and then.
Experience shows once bureaucrat have the arbitrary power he is going to use it promiscuously, whether his targets are deformed babies, senile old men, or inevitably, some “distasteful” ethnic group, or “wrong thinking” citizens. Let the parents, relatives, or Sisters of Mercy, or even my tax money take care of the less fortunate. No good can come from legalized homicide.
Actually that is not true.