[Rockitz]

Wake up GOP and Christians!

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the correct tact to defeating abortion. Any legislation should be aimed at gaining even-handed counseling for those women and men considering abortion. This counseling would make the woman and the prospective father aware of the emotional and physical consequences of abortion as well as alternatives. An abortion doctor has an obvious conflict of interest and this would balance this with alternatives such as adoption and information regarding the scientifically established emotional and physical ramifications of abortion. This is the best tact against abortion. It is unassailable by pro-choice groups. While the true victim is the unborn child, such an approach addresses the pro-choice established victim- the woman. Changing hearts is key to victory against abortion and such a law can help change hearts without arousing a severe backlash from the pro-choice groups. Roe v. Wade will become superfluous with this type of approach.

[Kevin Curry]

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the correct tact to defeating abortion.

Nonsense. Overturning Roe v. Wade would simply hand the issue back to the states, where the people through their elected representatives could try out different approaches. It is not only the "correct" tack, it is an absolutely essential tack. Nothing would do more to make your suggestions workable and effective.

[Jeff Chandler]

hearts without arousing a severe backlash from the pro-choice groups

Don't you know them by now? Some organization could offer every pregnant woman in America a million dollars to carry to term and adopt out her child rather than abort and the feminists would say that they were no better than NAZIs in their blatant attempt to oppress womyn.

[BUSHdude2000]

We lose this fight no matter what when we let the left use the words choice or choose: they only want to choose to have an abortion and end a life. They don't want us to choose to own firearms. They don't want us to choose where our kids go to school. They don't want to us to choose how we spend our money instead of the gov't. When these Dem candidates are running for president and they talk about "a woman's right to choose", they have to clarify "to kill a baby" or "to have an abortion". By automatically giving them the understanding that we know they mean abortion, puts us in the loss column.

[exDemMom]

I hate to say it, but many attempts have been made by various state legislatures over the years at introducing laws to require just what you advocate, informed choice. Unfortunately, in the spirit of Roe vs. Wade, every one of these laws have been struck down by the Supreme Court as being "unconstitutional." Without overturning Roe vs. Wade, true informed consent laws may be impossible.

Personally, I am not at all for making abortion illegal. I am for full informed consent, mandatory pre-abortion sonograms, and for showing the post-abortive mothers their "products of conception." Such measures would, I believe, cause a drastic drop in the number of birth-control abortions.