It is perfectly understandable for Dobson to take this position on a matter of such fundamental principle. Dobson is speaking in the grand Protestant tradition, " here I stand, I can do no other."
It is perfectly understandable for Dobson to take this position on a matter of such fundamental principle. Dobson is speaking in the grand Protestant tradition, " here I stand, I can do no other."
I can think of no better way to ensure the blessings of liberty to our posterity than to stop killing them before they are even born.
Choice, indeed.
Wish I could look in a crystal ball and see what kind of judges Rudy would appoint.
I know what kind Hillary would appoint.Matter of fact it is almost a given that she would pull a Bill Clinton and fire the judges like he did.
To compare Dobson with Martin Luther is odious to me as a Lutheran and a Christian.
Dobson is not a preacher, minister or priest to begin with. He's a licensed psychologist.
He's a well-to-do, smart man who has worked himself into to a position where he has an effective soap box to expound on his particular morals and his particular politics to a large audience who, hopefully, may or may not be buying what he's selling as it did in the past.
Most folks thing he's a man of the cloth, but he isn't. His layman's opinions are his own concoctions and should be given the same consideration and weight as those of any prominent person.......or psychologist. His political power-plays and petty comments are certainly not coming out of a pipeline from God.
In addition, this man who so desperately wants to influence national politics is painting himself into a corner by randomly stabbing the GOP and its candidates in the back.......and he evidently doesn't realize it......yet.
His pot shots (and ego) will come back to haunt him.
Leni
Rudy is the only one of the candidates who supports abortion. I am not sure about Paul.
What do you think of these positions?
Abortion/Life
1. Right to Life Amendment:
I would amend the U.S. Constitution and provide blanket protection to all unborn children from the moment of conception by prohibiting any state or federal law that denies the personhood of the unborn. Likewise, I have also introduced the Right to Life Act, which would legally define “personhood” as the moment of conception and, therefore, guarantee all constitutional rights and protections, including life, to the unborn without utilizing a constitutional amendment.
2. Federal laws relating to abortion and human life protections (e.g, embryonic research and end of life, etc.):
There are several areas of federal law that require human life protections. I have cosponsored the following pieces of legislation:
The Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would amend the federal criminal code to prohibit transporting a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion, if this action circumvents the minor’s native state’s parental involvement law. I voted in favor of this bill when it passed the House 270-157 on April 27, 2005.
The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2005, which would prohibit and criminalize efforts at reproductive cloning.
The Parent’s Right to Know Act of 2005, which would prohibit federal funding to carry out federal family planning programs in which service providers in the project knowingly provides contraceptive drugs or devices to a minor, except in specific circumstances.
The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2006, which would require abortion providers to notify women who want to have an abortion 20 weeks after fertilization that the evidence suggests their unborn child feels pain and they may request anesthesia for their unborn child in order to reduce or eliminate the pain.
I have also supported human life protection efforts with the following votes:
I supported the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, banning the practice of fetal farming, the creation of embryos specifically for the purposes of scientific research.
I voted in favor of the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act, which would direct federal funding to stem-cell research that does not rely on embryos.
I voted against the Stem-Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which would have directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem-cells, regardless of the date on which the stem-cells were derived from a human embryo.
I voted against amendments offered to the National Defense Authorization Act permitting taxpayer funded military facilities overseas to be used to support abortions on demand for military women and military dependents.
I voted against amendments providing UN funding to groups that support coercive abortion programs.