This seems to be the only right guaranteed by the Constitution that certain folks wish to make 'rare'...
Indeed. I guess liberals figure it's a natural right only women can enjoy, under certain circumstances, given the realities of the political landscape and the phase of the moon.
You know how liberals love to squawk about "rights."
Killing them softly?
--just like gun control---
They're not going to be able to maintain this protective coloration in the act of opposing Bush's Supreme Court nominees. They're going to have to pull out all the "pro-choice" stops to keep their base appeased.
From http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041219/OPINION01/412190316/1056/NEWS09
Yepsen: Welcome pro-life Democrats
By DAVID YEPSEN
DES MOINES REGISTER COLUMNIST
December 19, 2004
A new organization of anti-abortion Democrats is forming in Iowa. Their goal is to make being a pro-lifer acceptable in that party again.
Democrats for Life is recruiting members at the Statehouse, and hopes to begin building a grass-roots operation at county and precinct levels in the coming months, organizers said last week. Senate Democratic president Jack Kibbie of Emmetsburg said "we ought to be a big tent and allow everybody in. Being pro-life is more than just the abortion issue."
If successful, the group could prove helpful in electing more pro-life Democratic state legislators and candidates to congressional and statewide offices in Iowa. It could also be beneficial to state economic-development director Mike Blouin's potential bid for governor in 2006.
Blouin has long been a pro-lifer, but has said one impediment to his running is whether his party would accept such a candidate for governor. Last week, he said he hadn't heard of this new effort, but won't consider his gubernatorial options until after the 2005 legislative session where he's trying to win passage of important economic-development legislation.
For years, the Iowa Democratic party has been solidly pro-choice. It wasn't always that way. The late governor and senator Harold Hughes was strongly anti-abortion. Over the years many anti-abortion Democrats, especially from Iowa's more heavily Roman Catholic or evangelical areas, have felt increasingly alienated from their party over this issue. Some even became Republicans.
The Democratic "tent" hasn't been as big as some Democrats would like to believe. That's been costly, and Republicans have welcomed the votes of these "Reagan Democrats." While some pro-choice Republicans left their party over this issue, the trade-off seems to have netted the GOP more.
(Polls show there are more pro-choice people than pro-lifers, but it's also true there are more single-issue pro-life voters than single-issue pro-choice ones. Advantage: Republicans.)
At the same time, these pro-life Democrats haven't been totally comfortable with the GOP or its candidates. For these Democrats, the abortion issue isn't just about a right to be born, it's also about the right to have a decent quality of life. It's why they're big on health care for kids and education programs and oppose the death penalty, positions Republicans often don't champion.
The 2004 election changed some Democratic thinking. At the national level, Democrats watched as Republicans captured a majority of votes of people most concerned about moral values. "As a wedge issue, this has helped Republicans tremendously," Kibbie said. "I don't want to see our party get narrowed down to a pro-choice party."
Also, in Iowa, one reason Democrats picked up legislative seats is that some candidates they ran were anti-abortion in districts where many voters hold similar views. While that upset the pro-choicers, it proved a successful political strategy for legislative Democratic leaders, some of whom are also anti-abortion.
Organizers of Democrats for Life hope to broaden the debate beyond whether abortion should be restricted to include some of these other quality-of-life issues. They hope to reach out to Republican pro-lifers to convince them it's time to worry as much about health care and education as they do about repealing Roe vs. Wade.
Few issues are as vexing as this one. While most politicians agree abortion is horrible and should be discouraged, there is passionate disagreement over just how coercive the government should be in trying to do that.
It's good to see a group form to bring another point of view to this debate, one that says if society is going to try and force women to bear unwanted children, we'd also better do things to make those children more wanted.
The right to life is more than just a right to be born.
Sorry...all Democrats and those who vote for pro-abortion Democrats are accessories to countless murders...I for on will NOT forget!
Yes, that's what the Democrats need, better subterfuge.
Nah, the Evil Dums are going to start a campaign for more HUMANE abortions. doncha know.
People will not be that stupid. The Dems won't be fooling anybody.
I have to go to the annual family Christmas party in about two hours. I was banned from giving gifts several years ago and all other rules are imposed by my sister in law for various reason including the one that we can't talk politics. She and my brother are supposedly prolife and definitely Democrats. I say supposedly because they are such yellow dog democrats and I cannot believe it is at all compatible. My other brother and his wife although not particularly prolife are huge Bush fans.
Then the party hasn't changed it's position. Actually it can't change it's position and still survive, because a large percentage of it's supporters have made abortion "rights" the litmus test for supporting a candidate.
OTOH, the GOP can't change it's position either because of the same situation in reverse. But I think it's more likely that the Republican leadership will try hard to change that position because most of the old line eastern establishment Republicans who are big contributors to Republican candidates and the party want abortion kept legal and readily available. IMO if they get their way it will be the end of the Republican comeback that began with Reagan's administration.
In short, it isn't enough for them to say that they don't like abortion. They have to put their money where their mouths are.
What about the right to free speech, and the right to bare arms? They want to make those "rare" too.
quandary bump
Now the ruse begins. The Democrats are Confidence men. Con men and Con women. They will now try to creat an illusion that they don't believe what they do believe and convince people that they believe what they do not. They are doing it in the open light of day. Their musings on the subject as to how they can fool us to get back into power. They are liars and murderers. It is like asking us to believe Osama binladen that he now is going to be more tolerent of Americans. At least binladen has his convictions. The Democrats will say or do anything to reacquire power. Their biggest tool is the same as for lawyers...it is the lie. It is the major tool in their tool box and they use it each and every day and in every way. Remember in communist doctrine the dialect materialism? Same with democrats. Do not take your eye off of the ball. They are shapeshifters of politics. If you forget that you will be their victim. Other than that democrats are are just like any other communist.
You cannot make stuff like this up. Well you can but its hard to make it believable.