You don’t save lives by giving up every principle of God-given unalienable right, every stated purpose of the Constitution, and its explicit, imperative requirement that every innocent person’s life be equally protected under the law, any more than you could win a war by walking onto a battlefield buck naked and weaponless.
Either all are protected equally, or none are secure in their rights.
Romney, at best, represents the abortion on demand status quo. That is crystal clear.
Sorry, but I strongly disagree with you on that point. If I lived in Germany in WW2, I would hope I could have smuggled one Jew out of harm’s way — even though your position would suggest I should not waste my time and instead should be trying to change the system.
We need to change the system. We also need to take every opportunity within the system to save every life we can.
If we can save 10,000 lives by passing bills that provide some protection based on pain-awareness, I will strongly support those bills, not attack them.
The partial-birth-abortion ban saves lives. Those babies, when they grow up, will be glad that people didn’t agree with your “purity at all costs” mentality.