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The final message:

"...The voters have spoken resoundingly on abortion and the right to privacy. Those who want to turn government into Big Brother need to heed the message and give it up..."

1 posted on 11/11/2006 5:04:38 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

Sorry, this was about an extremist law in South Dakota. As for the anti abortion candidates losing, well so did the anti-gay marriage candidates, and that certainly won, big time. The others was about turn out, this time, Dems turned out, just the way it goes.


2 posted on 11/11/2006 5:09:07 AM PST by Paradox (American Conservatives: Keeping the world safe for Liberalism.)
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To: shrinkermd
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.

Oh, That's how we should win. Thanks LA Times for letting us know what we should do.
3 posted on 11/11/2006 5:10:28 AM PST by xmission
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To: shrinkermd

Abortion is a minor issue for most Americans. I can appreciate the passion that some people have regarding it, but as far as a campaign issue, the majority of the people don't care.


4 posted on 11/11/2006 5:11:22 AM PST by MMcC
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To: shrinkermd
I think the LATimes might actually have it right: Americans by and large now think of abortion as an essential component of their private sexual behavior, and they will not tolerate restrictions on it. This is true not only in California but in the so-called American heartland as well. The best example is Kansas, where voters decided that "Killer" Tiller will be allowed to kill babies at any moment up until birth without the slightest restriction.

San Francisco values? Nope, AMERICAN values.

6 posted on 11/11/2006 5:12:41 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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Sigh. Here is the single most misunderstood issue, EVER.

It's not really about abortion, is it? It's about the Federal government usurping power that was given to the States, expressly, by the constitution.

Emanations and penumbras be damned! This is a matter for the individuals States to decide. Show me this mythical "Right to Privacy" in the Constitution.


7 posted on 11/11/2006 5:12:56 AM PST by StatenIsland
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Well, isn't it unfortunate that we were not given the same chance, way back in 1973, when nine (9) judges, accountable to no one, decided they had miraculously found an alleged "right to privacy" among other nefarious things in the Constitution?

No! I don't by this bologna even one little bit. The fact is that nine S-I-C-K human beings (I use the term loosely)created Big Brother..." and said sic 'em to the killers who would then slaughter like swine MILLIONS of really human babies!

No, this was no "...resoundingly..." spoken anything. It's clear enough after this election that at least half of the voters are basically clueless, uninformed individuals willing to be led around blindly.

So no, I just don't by this argument!!! But thanks for the thread.

Nancee

9 posted on 11/11/2006 5:24:24 AM PST by Nancee
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To: shrinkermd

Ronald Reagan said it best I think:

'Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.'

The value and righteousness of a society is determined in large part as to how that society treats the most innocent and vulnerable, i.e., the very young, and the very old.

In that regard, America is well on it's way to becoming a euthanasia-nation.

And we as a Nation will not escape the judgment of the Almighty for such abominations.


10 posted on 11/11/2006 5:26:56 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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Abortion should be voted on by the people in each individual state, not by the judicial idiots. Then get it out of national politics for good.


13 posted on 11/11/2006 5:44:27 AM PST by tkathy (The choice is clear: White hat people or white flag people.)
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To: shrinkermd

The LA Times is a very pro-abort newspaper. Subscribers are voting to cancel it in droves. I guess that proves the pro-abort message is unpopular.


15 posted on 11/11/2006 5:51:59 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: shrinkermd
According to the Los Angeles Times Americans are pro-abortion. Not quite so fast. The parental notification measures in Oregon and California lost by narrow margins. They'll be back. The ban in South Dakota was rejected by voters because it failed to provide an exception for rape and incest. What the votes showed is nearly half the American public is in favor of a culture of life. These are voters liberals dismiss at their political peril.

"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

22 posted on 11/11/2006 6:04:33 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: shrinkermd

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.


35 posted on 11/11/2006 6:39:06 AM PST by Skooz (It's Morning in Pelosistahn)
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To: shrinkermd

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.


40 posted on 11/11/2006 6:59:29 AM PST by NavVet (O)
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To: shrinkermd

The measure in South Dakota was too draconian, which is why it lost.


46 posted on 11/11/2006 11:32:59 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (Corporatism is not conservatism)
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