Romney: My views on abortion rights are clear

That is language for insiders, the general public would shut it out and recoil at it’s fire and brimstone tone.

To be frank, my eyes glaze over some when I hear that language and my first instinct is to look for an exit plan, most of us just don’t talk to each other like that, we don’t engage each other with that kind of language, it doesn’t really sound like conversation, it sounds like pronouncements of dogma and of a too personally revealing, even aggressive conviction, of the individual saying it, it sounds threatening.

The language needs to be the language of the people being spoken to, and needs to be geared to triggering their own thought processes, language that they hear and listen to, and want to engage with, connect with, take with them to other conversations, words that they unconsciously absorb and make their own.

That's a damned lie.

You wish, Or maybe you don't really.

Tell me this; Will abortions go down or up in the Romney administration?

They went up under Reagan, GHWB, Bill Clinton, GW, Obama, looks like a pattern could be derived fro those stats.

Since when did no abortion except in the cases of rape, incest and life of the mother become pro-abortion? I feel like I've woken up in the twilight zone.

I see myself as a libertarian, not sure how to describe it, but as I older, I'm more of a Barry Goldwater (although I'm against planned Parenthood) type or since I'm into science fiction, L. Neil Smith or Robert A. Heinlein type. If I was a Dungeons and Dragons character (I'm heavy into role playing games), I'd be "chaotic good," basically good but I'd rather make up my own mind on moral issues with various sources of input ranging from religion to what I see in the real world.

I am very pro-life myself, before we take a life, we must make sure all other options are exhausted before making such a decision. Because of that, I even lean against the death penalty with exceptions. Without life given to us by God or whatever one believes, there is no freedom.

Even so, I think abortion in general should be left to the States to decide. I'd like to see 50 pro-life States but under our system, that is the way it is, the Feds should be silent on the issues, not stopping it or promoting it, it is not their job.

I'm a realist, reality many times flies in the face of ideology. We live in a "grey to black morality world" where humans are not infallible, we make mistakes. There are no or very few "white hats" except Jesus Himself. The best we can do it to make the grey as light as possible.

Like you, I cannot ask a woman to carry a child of rape, it is a tall order to ask her to do. I think it is noble for her to carry it all the way, either to give the child up for adoption or raise the child. Still, I can see where it would be traumatic for her and her husband/family. It pains me but reality as it is, this is a point where I have to let her make the decision.

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Yabut, what if it's not "rape-rape" but just, you know, consentual rape?

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