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To: Risha
The pre-Roe v Wade and post-Roe v Wade periods were as different as night and day. In 1967, GovReagan was caught between a political issue and moral issue. Reagan had only five weeks to study the abortion legislation he was presented with, and he admitted to not doing his due diligence when it came to understanding the abortion bill. Btw, the abortion bill Reagan signed into law was for cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life was in danger. Just after Roe v Wade became law, Reagan became a pro-life crusader for the unborn.

"Our nation-wide policy of abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people, nor enacted by our legislators--not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in 1973. [It was] an act of raw judicial power"...

"Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. Nowhere do the plain words of the Constitution even hint at a "right" so sweeping as to permit abortion up to the time the child is ready to be born."

"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life."

"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning."

- President Ronald Reagan : "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", 1983

119 posted on 09/27/2006 12:04:24 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't support amnesty and conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: Reagan Man
The pre-Roe v Wade and post-Roe v Wade periods were as different as night and day. In 1967, GovReagan was caught between a political issue and moral issue. Reagan had only five weeks to study the abortion legislation he was presented with, and he admitted to not doing his due diligence when it came to understanding the abortion bill. Btw, the abortion bill Reagan signed into law was for cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life was in danger. Just after Roe v Wade became law, Reagan became a pro-life crusader for the unborn.

People change there minds. Reagan did it, others will as well.

136 posted on 09/27/2006 12:12:59 PM PDT by Risha
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