Posted on 11/11/2006 5:04:36 AM PST by shrinkermd
...Anti-abortionists have been craving a test case to put before the U.S. Supreme Court, in hopes of overturning Roe vs. Wade — and thought they had it when the South Dakota Legislature passed a ban on abortion. Instead of challenging the law in court, though, pro-choice forces cleverly put the matter to a popular referendum. Even in that socially conservative, anti-abortion state, a decisive majority Tuesday preserved a woman's right to choose. To some extent, they were bothered by the ban's extraordinary lack of compassion, refusing to exempt even the victims of rape and incest. But a frequently voiced complaint about the ban was that government simply shouldn't interfere with private lives.
That's a closely held American value and one that Republicans should embrace again lest they want to see this midterm election be a harbinger of a long-range trend.
Both California and Oregon voted down attempts to require parental notification before a minor can obtain an abortion. In several other states, anti-abortion congressional candidates were defeated, and Kansas' Phill Kline, the state attorney general who notoriously overreached the powers of his office in his single-minded attack on family planning and abortion clinics, was turned out of office.
In California, Proposition 85 was the second attempt within a year to impose parental notification on girls, most of whom already talk to their parents before opting for an abortion. Both efforts failed at the polls...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"...and we haven't begun to see the cost to the Republic, yet."
No, but the signs devaluing human life are all around us, strangling the life, in some cases quite literally, out of our young people. We see rapes, murders, horrendous, evil things being done to our fellow citizens. We have people who think a man and a man and a woman and a woman have some alleged constitutional right to get "married", of all things. The list goes on and on. Look at what pedophiles are doing, all over this country, to our young, vulnerable children...obscene, indecent, evil things...like burrying them alive after capturing them, repeatedly raping them, stuffing them in garbage bags (doesn't that behavior speak volumes). This is a society decaying, rotting from the inside out, because nine (9) Supreme Court judges have declared that a woman, allegedly according to the Constitution, has the right to murder her own baby. How have we come to this?
Nancee
BUMP!!!
It really frightens me that over half the voters don't want to be informed before their daughters have abortions. Who the hell are these sick, uninvolved parents anyway?
It's truly disgusting that they won't even allow sensible restrictions on abortion. It's also disgusting that so many can turn a blind eye to this tragedy.
I have no problem with this.
From the same article:
"If "information is power", then it follows that personal information in whatever form, or of whatever nature, confers power to the owner of that information."
The less power the government has, the better.
I respectfully disagree with you. A Republican will never be elected as president without his/her stance being "pro-life"/"anti-death" because you're right:
"...the passion that some people have regarding it,...",
These same people recognize that this is not just a matter of murdering innocent human beings; twisted as that is, it's about a Federal Judiciary of nine (9) citizens who have usurped the powers of the other two (2) branches of our government, and not just on this issue either. You can bet that the Democrats KNOW this well. Why else would there be a political upheaval every single time a Republican president nominates a judge to the Supreme Court? It's craziness!!
Ask John McCain in a couple of years why he thinks he lost his bid for the White House in 2008? He betrayed all of us with his "gang of 14"; not simply because of abortion, but because he compromised a golden opportunity to stop these pro-death senators from preventing strict constructionist judges to be nominated and confirmed. He will never, it is my opinion, win any bid for the White House.
All that to state that I respectfully disagree with you!
Nancee
BUMP!!!
I think a majority of the population COULD be sold on some combination of 3, 4, 5. Most of the population is uncomfortable with abortion.
But you'll never, ever, ever, ever, sell the majority of hte population on some of the fanatical positions you see on FR...
Like a single-celled egg that's been fertilized for a few hours being prevented from implanting by the Morning-After pill being "aborting a baby."
BUMP!!!
He's still absolutely right.
The Majority of the population doesn't care about the abortion issue as a campaign issue, and frankly just wants it to go away.
It's SO critical to understand how other people think differently from you.
"How have we come to this?"
"Because though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, or thank Him, but rather became vain in their reasoning, and their heart, lacking understanding, was darkened.
"Professing to be wise, they became fools."-Romans 1:21-22
That about sums it up, doesn't it?
You have said with great economy of words that which I have said with far more words! God Bless You!!!
Nancee
Oh please. This is skewed beyond redemption.
Since many conservatives stayed home and the Dems won big, it stands to reason that most voters on Tuesday were Dems and, therefore, pro-abort.
Anyone who sees this as a "harbinger of a long-range trend" is woefully ignorant.
Just another left wing moonbat giving Republicans advice on election issues.
No thanks.
And it is equally important to understand just how many people do not think at all, but can be taught how to think, where to get legitimate and accurate information, and then how to get to the voting booth.
I really do get your point. And I agree that understanding trends and the way others think IS critically important. I just think there is more to it than that. Once I have recognized where the populations are who can be educated, I go after them with the goal of informing them in order to make a difference. Thanks for your reminder! It's a good one.
Nancee
Nancee
And the Founding Fathers, with whose writings I have tried to become more and more familiar, would be shocked to see the murder, not only of the innocents, but of the Constitution itself. If this I am confident.
Nancee
Oregon and California. Does that mean all those voters in other states that have voted for parental notification have changed their minds? Or that we should ingore the national polls that favor parental notification are just glitches. The polls that show the American people overwhelmingly oppose abortion on demand as a means of birth control are probably wrong too.
Finally, it should be noted that if the Left really believed there was popular support for 12 year old girls being able to obtain abortions on demand without parental notification, then they wouldn't be so determine to make sure it is the courts and not the people who get to decide.
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