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President Bush is prolife. President Reagan was prolife. They both had the opportunity to appoint supreme court judges. Bush's appointments seem solidly prolife (time will tell); but, Reagan's appointments turned out to be LIBERALS.

So, in the only area in which a president can have any impact on the abortion issue; it's still a toss of the coin...Have you seen any change in abortion in America in the last 30 years? I haven't.

But, now there is another vital issue facing the future of America. One that is perhaps even more important than the status quo of the abortion issue. And that is the threat of radical Islam.

I'm gonna vote for the strongest Commander-in-Chief, so that America will survive long enough to change abortion in America.

Right now, Rudy looks the strongest to me. McCain comes in second--at least among the hopeful presidential candidates that have a prayer's chance of winning in the general election. That's my humble opinion.

>>>>>Bush's appointments seem solidly prolife (time will tell); but, Reagan's appointments turned out to be LIBERALS.

Yes indeed, time will tell. Alito seems like a solid conservative. Roberts remains a question mark. Lets wait 10-15 years and see what happens. Some other recent Presidents had trouble with their picks too. Eisenhower with Earl Warren, Nixon with Warren Burger and Reagan with Sandra Day O'Conner. Reagan's other nominees were very conservative, including Judges Bork and Ginsberg. Scalia and Reinquist weren't liberal and at the time of his appointment, Anthony Kennedy received support from all the major right to life organizations. After several years on the bench, Kennedy turned moderate.

And this is another problem with the pro life mentality. The goal is to overturn the Roe decision, and both pro-life and pro-abortion judges are capable of doing that.

Overturning Roe doesn't make abortion illegal. It's practical result is to leave the decision up to each state to decide abortion policy. I don't think overturning Roe would change the abortion climate nationally at all.

Conservative SD just told 'all or nothing' pro lifers to go to hell - the problem with 'all or nothing' is you usually end up getting 'nothing,' and the pro life leadership (again) is smarting with a loss that they didn't see coming but almost everyone else saw coming a mile away. Horrible.

The major problem with the pro life movement, besides shoddy leadership, is its inability to have a solid grasp of what it wants. Without a realistic goal, you can't tell whether you are moving towards the goal or away from it.