Posted on 12/29/2004 4:19:33 AM PST by Ellesu
For Republicans, Social Security has been the untouchable third rail, at least until President Bush promised reformation by transformation.
For Democrats, the third rail has been abortion - no exceptions, no restrictions, no compromise. Now some Democrats sound as if they might be willing to alter their fundamentalist position on abortion in order to stop their electoral hemorrhaging and start winning elections again. Could they be serious?
In a Dec. 23 New York Times story headlined "Democrats Weigh De-emphasizing Abortion as an Issue," several prominent Democrats suggest their party should at least open its doors to abortion opponents and make abortion less central in future party campaigns.
Some party leaders said Democrats might embrace at least one restriction, such as parental notification before a minor girl can get an abortion. Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, said, "Even I have trouble explaining to my family that we are not about killing babies."
Maybe the reason she is having trouble is because that is precisely what is happening. More than 40 million children have been killed legally in America since the Supreme Court imposed Roe vs. Wade on the nation 32 years ago next month.
Democrats seem unconcerned that so many discarded members of the human family are not with us. These were 40 million taxpayers for new Democrat programs; at least 20 million women, some of whom might have become feminists and Democrat voters; 40 million people, one of whom might have discovered a cure for cancer or other dread diseases; 40 million once regarded as "inconvenient," but surely not if they would have been allowed to be born; 40 million branches of family trees who will, themselves, never bear fruit and whose lines have been cut off.
Comments by Democrats trying to get back into the "moral issues" game are revealing. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, said Republicans had "been successful at painting the view of the pro-choice movement as abortion on demand - and nothing can be farther from the truth."
Perhaps the senator might wish to explain her voting record, which to a fair reader might prove abortion on demand is precisely what she favors. Feinstein:
• Voted NO on a criminal penalty for harming an unborn fetus during a crime.
• Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life.
• Voted NO on maintaining the ban on military abortions.
• Was recommended by the liberal EMILY's List of pro-choice women.
• Received a 100 percent rating by NARAL for her pro-choice voting record.
If the public perceives that the Democratic Party favors abortion on demand, it is because of senators (and many other Democrats in Congress) like Dianne Feinstein who have not done anything to curtail abortion.
There is only one reason to restrict abortion and that is because what is being killed is a human being. Any other "reason" seeks to invoke a moral standard one has just denied.
There is a way Democrats can do something about their image and still remain "pro-choice." They can back laws requiring women to receive full disclosure before receiving an abortion. We do this with automobiles, food and bank loans. Consumers increasingly benefit from laws designed to give them information so their choices will be educated.
Why do so many pregnant women lack information about the procedure and alternatives?
What would be wrong with laws that empower women through additional information, even while abortion remains legal?
If Democrats won't back empowerment by informing women seeking an abortion - at least as much basic information as they receive at the Department of Motor Vehicles before the state issues a license to drive - one can only conclude that the party's reported interest in changing its image is based not on convictions, but on political pragmatism. If that is their game, they will deservedly continue to lose elections.
Ignorant about what ?
must be a troll
If they do it it will only be to get votes. It won't be because they're actually sincere.
Baal is alive and well and resides in Hollywood and NYC among evil people who spread the religion in movies and TV every day. Baal is all about base immorality including: murder, violence, abortion, sexual freedom, homosexuality, pornography, incest and devil worship. Until this truly unholy, inhuman religion is eliminated, it is sure to continue to triumph.
Abortion is not jut a sacrament in the religion of liberalism. It is the MOST HOLY SACRAMENT of liberalism. The very foundation of their world view.
True. Ergo, they rely heavily on the results of the 1965 Immigration Act to keep them alive now.
The Wall Street Journal calls this "The Roe Effect". More Democrats abort their own, thus less of them.
I once asked a Republican pol who wanted to de-emphasize the party's pro-life stance the question, "If there is a pregnant woman standing in front of you, what does she have in her womb?" The pol promptly replied, "A baby." I asked, "Why would I vote for you if you truly believe that and would do nothing to stop its destruction?"
It's not what you emphasize in your speech that counts, it's what you do.
Shalom.
That and idiot journalists like Nina Burliegh:
"I'd be happy to give him a blow job just to thank him for keeping abortion legal." —Nina Burleigh, former White House correspondent for Time magazine, in an interview with the Washington Post. She was elaborating on an article she wrote in Mirabella magazine, in which she admitted that she enjoyed having Bill Clinton check out her naked legs during a game of hearts aboard Air Force One. "If he had asked me to continue the game of hearts back in his room at the Jasper Holiday Inn," she wrote, "I would have been happy to go there and see what happened." Link
Ugh, now I need a shower...
Same here! This is a political ploy - not a moral value change.
The dem voters know full well that the change is nothing more than a pack of lies.....
You're exactly correct!
Kerry said many things during his campaign which was totally against the dems stated policies. However, as most people noted - the dem voters said nothing.
He tried the same old sorry lies that slick willie tried. There will always be suckers willing to be duped.
"always suckers willing to be duped"
Sadly, you're right about that.
Not counting the massive fraud by the dems in Ohio, there were still far too many people who voted for the war criminal.
Or to spell ROCKET SCIENTIST either.
Absolutely. The demon changes its name to fit the culture (quetzalcoatl, anyone?), but it's still the same demon. Here it goes by several names ... "Convenience" and "Choice" are the most common.
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