Ooooo-kay, soooo-o-o-o, how does Plan B still square with his stated adamant position that "I strongly believe life begins at conception and will never vote for anything that is counter to that belief"?
People's wives employment are not regularly a problem with ethics, although it's always fun to point to them when it's good for our side (for example, Dashle's wife's job as an airline lobbyist).
Exactly! As Allen has on many occasions...
What is your beef with Allen??
meandog, if you find and document a quote where Allen ever said that I'll send you $25.
I don't know. I believe life begins at conception, but don't have a problem with Plan B either. My argument is that until the little egg is implanted, it's not the woman's body's problem. I don't see preventing implantation the same as I see forcibly removing an implanted egg.
But that argument isn't important to the argument over investment. Owning stock in the company in no way is like "voting for anything counter to the belief". Nor is owning the stock the same as supporting every product the company makes, nor does owning the stock enable the company to make the pill. Owning stock in a publicly traded company is not the same for example as providing venture capital.
I pay money to an insurance company that covers abortions. At some level, I'm helping support a company doing abortions, but I want insurance, and my company insurance covers abortions, and all the insurers I have access to include abortions. And even if they didn't in MY plan, they would have other plans which DID.
I don't know of any major insurance company that does NOT have any plans which provide abortions. Also, I go to a hospital where abortions are performed, there are no catholic hospitals nearby.
Again, if you start picking your candidates based on whether they own stock in a company that has some activity you protest, and you apply that same logic to every aspect of the life of your candidate, I don't see how you can vote for anybody.
I can't imagine how any candidate wouldn't have SOME interaction with things I find unsavory, since I can't even avoid it all myself.
You know, I bet the Senate health insurance covers abortions.