Life of the Party

BOSTON--Amid the star-studded parties being held here during the Democratic Convention was one that's about as far off the A-list as it's possible to get: a dinner hosted Monday by a fledgling nonprofit advocacy group called Democrats for Life. Need one say it was an intimate affair? Even Republicans were better represented in Boston last week than Democrats who oppose abortion.

Let's face, a lot of people want to be in 'mainstream' to seem reasonable when voicing, or even forming, their opinions. Maybe more closet pro-lifers will start speaking up in the Democratic party if they see this.

BTW, anyone have a good source on the percentage of Republicans who oppose abortion? (in terms similar to that in this story.)

Keep praying for an end to abortion on-demand, -- Joe

"...there should be exceptions for women who would certainly be unable to keep going financialy and socially in certain situations.. a total ban will be very un fair to some (criminal victims?)"

DJ,

Thanks for your comments. Just to be up front about it, I'm one of those folks who believes that the legal protection of a human being starts when a human being starts, at conception (any other definition is arbitrary, unscientific, and has little or no regard for the preborn child). But I expect that, as with the changes in slavery laws, legal protection for preborn children will only come over time, with laws that neither side particularly likes.

So, my question to you is this: if you would grant an exception to women because of their financial status or because they were a criminal victim, would you allow the abortion to take place at time during the pregnancy, up to and including the natural date of birth? And would you require abortionists to minimize the pain the pre-born child to be aborted? (Right now, they are torn apart alive. We don't allow that to be done to dogs.)

-- Joe

Interesting that there are many pro-choice republicans. But besides Zell Miller, are there any pro-life prominent dems? I must confess that I would have a VERY difficult choice between a pro-choice repub and a pro-life dem.

I'd vote a pro-life Dem if he or she was like Lieberman. I'd disagree about a lot of things, but, yes, I'm alomst completely single-issue when it comes to abortion.

Almost. I'm sure there are some politicians I just couldn't bring myself to support, regardless of their abortion view.

-- Joe

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