We are so close to the end of Roe v. Wade- yet many on this board are being too greedy, too fast. There is not one poll that shows that the majority of Americans are in favor of banning abortion in the case of rape/incest/life of the mother. But if the pro life movement wants to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, they argue for a complete ban now. They will start arguing for a ban on contraception.
Bush is merely being realistic, and he represents the mainstream pro-life view, like it or not. Trying to get Americans to accept laws that will set 12 year old rape victims on trial for murder will never happen.
the pro-lifers fail to differentiate what tossing Roe means - it does not mean that abortion becomes illegal, it means the issue is returned to the states. and very few states are going to ban abortion for adult women in the first 10 weeks, very few.
as soon as the pro life single issue voters realize that, they will be arguing for federal bans on abortion - tossing their "states rights" beliefs out the window in about 2 minutes.
if we agree that Roe should go (and I do), we also have to accept that the states and their legislatures are going to decide it individually.
Exactly.
It also troubles me that there is so much emphasis on making abortion illegal, but so little on convincing people that it is immoral. Unless the public is convinced that abortion is wrong, the states will continue to allow it even if Roe is overturned.
Your post is excellent. We are almost there and the strident among us should not blow this in the eleventh hour by sounding so harsh and unmoved by a possible victim of rape,incest or a serious disease. I would never want to force a woman that was raped to bear that child, that is her decision alone. Incest is the same. I want ever single baby to have a chance to live,but what I want and what is reality are two different things. Rapists are many times mental cases ,loaded with disease, and it is cruel to make a woman go through 9 months of remembering every day how she got that way and in many cases hating the child, fearing the sickness in his head that drove him to this unspeakable crime will be passed to his spawn. It is her call, because we are not God. This is an answer to a question that was asked of the President and he gave his Standard answer. I have been pro-life my entire life, and I believe that the life does begin at conception, having said that, there is no way any human being should force another to go through this without their consent.