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Sen. Paul: ‘We’re Not Changing Any’ Abortion ‘Laws Until the Country is Persuaded Otherwise’
CNS News ^ | April 29, 2014 - 2:56 PM | Penny Starr

Posted on 04/30/2014 9:16:48 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

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1 posted on 04/30/2014 9:16:48 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Rand Paul throws up the white flag of surrender before the battle even begins.

Now that is Leadership!<\SARCASM>


2 posted on 04/30/2014 9:17:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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He has been crumbing on numerous fronts lately.

Someone has his number.


3 posted on 04/30/2014 9:20:21 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Rand Paul sucks more and more every time he opens his stupid mouth.


4 posted on 04/30/2014 9:20:48 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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Sen. Paul: ‘We’re Not Changing Any’ Abortion ‘Laws Until the Country is Persuaded Otherwise’

Senator, if I had the opportunity to run against you, I would throw that quotation at you on EVERY issue that you care about that doesn't have two-thirds support or more.

Guys like Mitch Daniels have been read out for milder transgressions.
5 posted on 04/30/2014 9:21:33 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: SoConPubbie

Paul is not a conservative


6 posted on 04/30/2014 9:22:00 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Why not Rand, if the creeps passed Obamacare against the wishes of the american people, they can pass abortion legislation in the same manner. You are wimping out dude, big time.


7 posted on 04/30/2014 9:27:01 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: SoConPubbie

This statement alone makes Rand unfit for public office.


8 posted on 04/30/2014 9:28:19 AM PDT by crusader71
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Hes just doing what the pauls do.


9 posted on 04/30/2014 9:28:39 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: HerrBlucher

60% of the country supports tighter laws. Whats enough for him to do something?


10 posted on 04/30/2014 9:30:02 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The country IS being persuaded.
Abortion laws are changing EVERYWHERE on the state level.

Abortion law is not really an issue at the Federal level because their IS not Federal Law authorizing abortion. Just an overreaching SCOUTS ruling declaring a “right “ to one.


11 posted on 04/30/2014 9:30:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Paul is doing the usual libertarian song and dance, a lot of blah, blah, flowery baloney, and at the end of it is....the liberalism, in this case, abortion.

From the CNN transcript.
BLITZER: So, just to be precise, if you believe life begins at conception, which I suspect you do believe that, you would have no exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, is that right?

PAUL: Well, I think that once again puts things in too small of a box. What I would say is that there are thousands of exceptions. You know, I’m a physician and every individual case is going to be different, and everything is going to be particular to that individual case and what’s going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother.


BLITZER: Well, it sounds like you believe in some exceptions.

PAUL: Well, there’s going to be, like I say, thousands of extraneous situations where the life of the mother is involved and other things that are involved.
So, I would say that each individual case would have to be addressed and even if there were eventually a change in the law, let’s say, the people came more to my way of thinking, it’s still be a lot of complicated things that the law may not ultimately be able to address in the early stages of pregnancy that would have to be part of what occurs between the physician and the woman and the family.


12 posted on 04/30/2014 9:31:34 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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The main point about abortion is that it is not a federal issue. If you really want to end abortion the most effective way is through the back door: Convention of the States. A simple amendment to take jurisdiction away from the Surpreme Court and make state courts the legal terminus for this issue.


13 posted on 04/30/2014 9:32:01 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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What a loser! I wonder if he could use that same logic and be against legalizing pot?


14 posted on 04/30/2014 9:33:32 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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I agree with the essential reality Paul expresses here, but he seems to be a little too anxious to reassure voters he's not a 'right wing wacko'.

Maybe he should spend a little more time assuring everyone he's no leftwing wacko.

After all, thats what we're being governed by today and how well is that working out for everyone.

15 posted on 04/30/2014 9:34:07 AM PDT by skeeter
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Rand Paul throws up the white flag of surrender before the battle even begins.

Time for some photo editing with Paul waiving the white flag.

16 posted on 04/30/2014 9:34:44 AM PDT by aimhigh (John 14:21)
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“The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree”

He gets more like his father everyday.
Why not fight the law? Roe v Wade decision was based on lies. So fight it.


17 posted on 04/30/2014 9:34:45 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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Anyone who votes for this fraud might as well write in McCain or Romney. He was hanging out with David Axelrod for God’s sake.


18 posted on 04/30/2014 9:35:32 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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Of course every poll indicates that a majority of Americans are Pro-Life and an even greater majority believe that Abortion should be illegal in MOST situations. So how many more minds do we have to change. Perhaps ONE MORE on the SCOTUS? Or is it time for the other two branches of the Federal government and the fifty states to assert their Constitutional authority and ignore and even imprison the SCOTUS and Federal courts members who over step their authority.

John Marshal and his fellow ‘justices’ should have been arrested, tried, imprisoned and or executed treason after the BS power grab ruling of Marbury VS. Madison as the SCOTUS stole powers they where never intended to have.

Jefferson was absolutely correct about this abominable ruling when he said:

“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.

The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves”

This madness has been enacted since 1803 and the last 211 years should be all the testimony necessary to decide that giving this unlimited power to lifetime appointed lawyers is just a stupid idea.


19 posted on 04/30/2014 9:35:51 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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As a practical matter I’d say he was right. We can place some restrictions on abortion but the law as a whole will not change until a lot of people change their minds on abortion.


20 posted on 04/30/2014 9:37:12 AM PDT by heartwood
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