YOU: "You had better research that particular statement further, before continuing to smear the name of Ronald Reagan. Your claim is made in ignorance, I believe, but it is offensive all the same. I will not give you the benefit of education, as you should know better, but you had better go looking, because you are utterly wrong".
YOU: "Ronald Reagan signed the CA Therapeutic Abortion Act of '67. That much my post admits. I never said he didn't sign the act".
FACT:
FROM NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE :On June 14, 1967, Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, after only six months as California governor. From a total of 518 legal abortions in California in 1967, the number of abortions would soar to an annual average of 100,000 in the remaining years of Reagan’s two terms — more abortions than in any U.S. state prior to the advent of Roe v. Wade. Reagan’s signing of the abortion bill was an ironic beginning for a man often seen as the modern father of the pro-life movement".
Why don't you just stop digging and climb out of the hole you find yourself in? Your original attack against me was that he didn't sign any abortion bill...no way,Jose....."Utterly wrong"is the way you phrased it. And only latter did you focus on the word "very". Which of course was irrelevant to my point.
Because my original point was that all politicians make compromises to advance their agenda. Even Ronald Reagan. And I think any reasonable person reading our posts would understand what I was trying to say.
You were wrong. No shame in that. But your constant refusal to give any ground to truth and facts makes it impossible to continue our discussion. Your heart is in the right place but your brain is frozen in fearful certitude that seems to be afraid to concede anything lest your whole edifice collapses. That's not mentally healthy.
So lets end this little engagement. Nothing fruitful can come from it.
Anyone who so willingly distorts this truth which I have said to you, and anyone who continues to boldly spread scurrilous lies, outright lies, about Ronald Reagan, after correction particularly, and re-correction precisely, IS smearing his good name.
What Reagan signed was an act to allow abortion in only the worst of cases, with discipline and review. I have demonstrated that to you over, and again.
I challenged you to show me the liberal language in the law, which you cannot do, yet here you are, tooting your horn. I explained the workings of the law, and still you bleat your mindless pap.
It is clear that you want desperately to make the point that Reagan compromised his principles, when in FACT, he did nothing of the kind.
Reagan has ever been a defender of Life, and *never* wavered once. And you, sir, for this slur against him, are a lying sack of crap.