I have found that a lot of men who haven’t had a pregnant woman in their lives thinking about abortion, and haven’t been in public office, will say that abortion is the “woman’s choice”. It doesn’t cost them anything, and they haven’t really thought it over.
The “no government tax money” but “let the woman choose” is the perfect libertarian response IF you are not personally convinced that the fetus is human, and a surprising number of otherwise smart people have not thought about it.
To Thompson’s credit, whenever he had to make an actual vote related to the issue, he thought it through carefully, and determined to vote the pro-life side. And by 2000, he had decided his position was more closely related to the “pro-life” side.
He now sounds firmly pro-life. Of course, I trust Romney is also now pro-life, because I believe in the power of truth to convince people that the pro-life position is the only valid position.
If I were a single-issue voter, I would be firmly in Romney’s camp as the only viable republican who I firmly believe is completely pro-life in word and deed (odd given how much he paid homage to “woman’s right to choose” in the past, but he even has a passable view of embryonic stem cell research).
But I have no doubt Thompson will speak clearly to the rights of the unborn, and will appoint strict constructionist judges who will be predisposed to support life. Plus his judges are unlikely to rule CO2 is a pollutant.
And being a well-spoken man, I know that, with God’s help, Thompson could be the man to turn the tide for the unborn, because in the end what we need is a firm but lovable spokesperson to convince women that, even IF they have the right to choose, the appropriate choice is to have their babies.
Meanwhile some candidates want my tax dollars to pay for abortions.
Duncan Hunter is the only viable GOP candidate who has been, is and always will be PRO-LIFE.
But your thoughts reveal nuggets of sentence fragments put there by others. For example:
If I were a single-issue voter...
Abortion is not a single issue and never was.
It has a horrible effect on age demographics that in turn have their deleterious effect on entitlement liabilities which in turn applies a strong pressure for tax increases and deficits and so on.
Abortion also has an effect on our military and hence our security.
Abortion is decided on the basis of age, health, political views and economics. Of these factors economics is predominant. And some of causes of the economic stress are persistent high taxation through ever changing venues, the necessity of recent history (last 30 years) of needing two wage earners in a family, the high cost and regulation of child care and the lack of cohesive extended family structures.
There are 45+ million deaths due to abortion since Roe vs. Wade and of those persons that would be here with us today there would be 70+ million more Americans. That's more than enough to fill the employment gap and to fund the entitlements.
As it stands, the President and Congress are looking at importing the missing demographic to solve the crisis through 'regularization' of illegal border crossers. But such a solution is cowardly and ill-advised as it burdens the current crisis with additional economic burdens that have not been carefully thought through.
Call it God's wrath.