Posted on 02/15/2007 1:33:48 PM PST by meg88
Much of the confusion is intentional. The media knows that abortion is a complex issue, not just a "yes/no" that only the true believers adhere to.
So they ask a politician a loaded question, like "Should doctors be able to abort a miscarried (dead) fetus?"
If the politician says yes, then they report that he is pro-abortion. Conversely, they ask a question like, "Should young teenage girls have abortions instead of using birth control?", and he answers "No", then they say he is anti-abortion.
The zinger is when they ask him both question, then they say that he is vacillating on the issue.
It is just a dirty "journalist" trick. They have a ton of them.
The real abortion fight is for the hearts and minds of American females of childbearing age, and the real goal is to reduce the fetal body count to zero. There is too much emphasis on repealing Roe, as though that by itself would solve the problem.
True, but I bet the pro-choicers in the democrat party STILL vote for the leader(less)ship candidate the DNC puts up. The abortion lovers won't vote for Rudy, who is about as 'pro-choice' as is humanly possible, so we get no new voters. And at the same time we are going to lose lots and lots of pro-life voters who will just stay home if its Rudy-Hitlery. Unless we get every single so-called independent voter who just doesn't give a crap about abortion, there is virtually no way do the math which adds up to 50.1%
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