Posted on 07/27/2005 4:54:46 AM PDT by Mia T
ROE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, ROSS PEROT + HILLARY CLINTON
But medical science is remorselessly advancing on two fronts along paths that may fairly soon seize and destroy in a scientific pincer movement the viability of Roe's reasoning.
When Roe was handed down in 1973, the survivability of prematurely born babies was not medically possible before 28 weeks of gestation. Today, babies born after only 20 weeks of gestation routinely survive -- and thus are viable under the Roe definition (and thus potentially legally safe from the abortionist's medical weapons).
But radical research may soon reduce that 20 weeks to just a few -- or perhaps no weeks...
Roe v. Wade v. technology Roe irrelevance via a medical technology pincer movement is precisely my argument last week to a friend! But I had argued viability of fetus on one side and non-medical-intervention methods of terminating pregnancy on the other.
My bottom line to him was twofold:
The Christian Right--and all of us--must focus all of our energies winning the war on terrorism so that all of our children, the born and the unborn alike, will live.... In order to do that, we must roundly defeat hillary clinton... or any other dangerously inept Democrat that moribund party decides to put forth.
As the John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination fight opens, the predicted battle to save or kill Roe v Wade already has taken to the streets, the Internet and the media. But the 32-year-old constitutional right to an abortion may face its gravest challenge not from red state values triumphing on the Supreme Court, but from medical research being carried out in elite blue state universities and in Europe and Asia.
It is the very language of Roe that carries the seed of its own possible irrelevance within the next several years. Roe enunciated the more or less unencumbered right of a woman to obtain an abortion prior to fetal viability. After viability, the right of states to regulate or prohibit abortions arise. The court defined legal viability as "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid."
Tony Blankley
TownHall.com
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
That is to say, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT MUST NOT ELECT HILLARY CLINTON BY DEFAULT by either voting for a third candidate or sitting out the election if the 2008 GOP candidate is not to its liking on the abortion issue.
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Excellent post Mia.
thanks. :)
The republicans better be cautious about who they chose for their candidate or they will lose the Christian right. Some options, such as McCain is little different from a democrat.
There are a few things that would change this for the Christian Right. 1) A clear betrayal of their Christian Right base by the republican party. 2) A clear request by the Republican Party for the Christian Right base to get and not come back. 3) A clear indication that one of the above two was the actual desire of the Republican Party.
At this point, I don't see any of the above.
I do think, though, that if the Dem Party begins to welcome pro-lifers that that will injure the Republican Party, especially with the RP's hope to make inroads into the Hispanic and African-American communities.
I just wonder If the GOP party central will give us another Bob Dole to elect.
Very Important Point!!!
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That is to say, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT MUST NOT ELECT HILLARY
CLINTON BY DEFAULT by either voting for a third candidate or sitting out
the election if the 2008 GOP candidate is not to its liking on the abortion
issue.
The Christian Right--and all of us--must focus all of our energies winning the
war on terrorism so that all of our children, the born and the unborn, will live.... In
order to do that, we must roundly defeat hillary clinton... or any other
dangerously inept Democrat that moribund party decides to put forth.
Note that my point on medical science and Roe is that it will likely be a wash.
On the one hand, the continual pushing back of the viability of the fetus to earlier and earlier stages of development will eventually render all medical abortions illegal under current law.
On the other hand, non-medical-intervention methods of terminating pregnancy will put the procedure safely (and surreptitiously) in the hands of the pregnant woman.
thanx :)
Well stated Mia.
I think you mean "non-surgical-intervention", as medications taken to end a pregnancy, are still medical intervention. Also, these medications may bring a whole lot of problems which often necessitate further medical intervention. But I understand your point - ending 'all' abortion should not be the defining line for who conservatives fight to elect to office.
"fight" = democrat focusgrouped word
I suppose I am imagining a quasi-medical technique or chemical. Something not regulated by the FDA and can be gotten in your local health food store.
The continual pushing back of the viability of the fetus to earlier and earlier stages of development by medical science will, in the near future, render all medical abortions illegal under current law.
With technology, in a sense, overturning Roe v. Wade, it makes infinitely more sense to concentrate ones efforts saving all the children, the born and the unborn alike, by winning the war on terrorism... which means, by defeating hillary clinton or any other inept, corrupt and dangerous democrat served up by that moribund and shamelessly seditious political party.
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CLINTON CONFLATES EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORISTS by Mia T, 03.16.06 
It is wrong to demonize and cartoonize one another and ignore evidence and to make false charges and to bear false witness. Sometimes I think our friends on the other side have become the people of the Nine Commandments. It is wrong to bear false witness because we all see through [the] glass darkly....
SERMON ON THE MAKE
As for fundamentalism, note that no one is more doctrinaire than the clintons. If the Religious Right eschews science for faith, the clintons corrupt science* for dogma, treasure and power.
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AFTERWORD: A note to the Religious Right I am not arguing that you change your deeply held convictions. To the contrary. Your convictions--the evangelical ethos-- is precisely my premise, my starting point. It is precisely why I cannot envision how you would doing anything to help elect hillary clinton, someone who is anathema to all you believe. But that is exactly what you would be doing if, in the next presidential election, you stay home or vote for a 'Perot.' You don't have to physically pull the lever or mark the box or touch the square next to the name 'hillary clinton' to help elect her. To think otherwise is to play with your mind. It is tempting to rationalize this issue... even to ignore it. It's a difficult issue. It's a dilemma. But rationalizing the issue won't make your actions morally right... and ignoring the issue won't make it go away. The clintons equate the Religious Right with the islamo-fascist terrorists, with the enemy. They are attempting to transfer onto the Religious Right the hate and fear and disgust Americans feel for the islamo-fascist terrorists. To disseminate their vile invective, the clintons chose a church for the venue and what the they believe to be a vulnerable, easily demagogued population for the audience. (A population they've exploited forever.) The purpose of this article is to inform you of the clintons' contemptible and dangerous scheme. To let you hear clinton for yourself. It is critical that you know fully what the clintons think of you and to what extremes they are willing to go to harm you, to defeat you, to crush you. You must not ignore or rationalize away this threat to your existence. As a Jew, I tend to be vigilant about such threats. I implore you to be vigilant, too. You must not make the same mistake my brethren made almost seven decades ago.
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very well put. excellent!
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