Posted on 10/08/2007 7:29:07 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
It’s time for the fight against abortion to move to a new front. An honest look at the landscape suggests that the longtime goal of the pro-life movement – the banning of abortion – is never going to be achieved.
We need to try something else.
I believe a fetus is a human being who deserves protection under the law from being killed. But if the goal is to save the lives of unborn children – and it should be – we need to look at our primary line of attack and see what it has achieved, and what it is likely to achieve in the future.
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We should accept these exclusions with the provision that any threat to the mother’s health had to be medically documented and any falsification would expose the doctor to a loss of license to practice medicine. A claim of rape or incest would have to be conditional on the filing of a police report.
And the Death Penalty for the Criminal too.
I envision a Cradle-To-Grave Right To Life Amendment that will cover everything from prenatal personhood to the right of a person not to be starved or dehydrated to death.
If you can think the opposition is going to let you parlay that distinction into an actual defense for the unborn, i'll eat my hat.
I believe the word you're looking for is "pragmatic."
Completely disagree. The social stigma would serve as an impetus to have an abortion no one knows about to avoid the stigma. It would run counter to your plan.
Roe v. Wade says that if Congress passes a statute saying that if Congress were to pass a statute declaring that the fetus is a “person within the meaning of the 14th Amendment, appellant’s case collapses.” In other words, it is CONGRESS that has chosen, for 34 years, to leave Roe v. Wade in place.
Donate to your local Crisis Pregnancy Center. The one in SF is always in need of funds. There are few local churches to support it, and those that exist are usually small and poor. Children’s lives are saved at these places, women and men are often restored to faith, many are presented with abstinence counseling, poor families are helped in many many ways - help!
I am unaware of any of the Founders who believed that the States had the authority to legalize murder.
One of the most idiotic articles I’ve ever seen.
Slavery and Lynchings were legal...
They never envisioned Federal authority in that area, hence the too often ignored 10th amendment.
Bump for later.
Personhood Federal Amendment: Problem Solved: Let’s go for the Jugular..
This person is a (compromiser), or they aren’t willing to stand up and be ‘counted’.
IF the MSM really covered the abortion issue with pictures etc abortion would be illegal in months
Selfish: You Rinos are selfish for taking the Republican party and *trashing* it!
It’s not selfish to stand up for morality, and principle.
It’s looking after the good of the nation, and ‘NO’ I don’t owe my soul to the Republican Party..frankly they can “Go crying back to NYC” for all I care.
Interesting thought.
I recall that drudge walked away from Fox after they refused to air a photo of a of a prenatal baby undergoing surgery.
We must work within the political process as much as we can, realizing our limitations, but more importantly, work to change hearts and minds. This has come a long way in the last 15 years, as shown by the opinion polls, and I believe that pretty strong restrictions on abortion can be achieved in most, if not all, states, if we can get Roe-v-Wade overturned, because, until that time, any restrictions will be overturned within that precendent.
With the monotonous and continual spamming in favor of libertoonian paleoPaulie who claims to be pro-life while also denying that the fedgov has any jurisdiction, coupled with the libertoonian worship of minigummint above (below???) all else and the self-worship reflected by libertoonianism generally, be aware that this article is just one more example of soft soap to get conservatives to abandon morality, abandon God, abandon worthwhile purposes for war, abandon marriage as an institution, and abandon the innocent unborn to the fate prepared by the materialistic and selfish who help create them but refuse to allow them to live if they find those lives "inconvenient."
Simultaneously, there is the insane desire of the same libertoonians to see nominated some candidate, ANY candidate from Julie Annie to Run Paul who will let them get together with their left wing, antiwar, antiAmerican, pro-lavender, pro-druggie and pro-abort soulmates.
Whether they want Flee in Terror Paulie or want social revolutionary Julie Annie, there is a place for them politically: the Demonratic Party. And another place for them politically: The Libertarian Party.
Whether the paleowhatevers and/or libertoonians like it or not, the GOP is the culturally, morally and socially conservative and interventionist party and we ain't going back to the amoral slovenliness and confusion of the Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, Eisenhower era of the GOP.
But I wasn’t talking about slavery. I was talking about murder. (I don’t believe lynchings were ever legal. They were winked at.)
With all due respect (considerable respect), I disagree. Where is “personhood” defined in the 14th Amendment other than in being a broader category than citizen? Give the definition.
Wow, I had to respond to this one.
I am certainly not a libertarian, and I can’t stand Ron Paul.
I have always been pro-life and always supported state bans on abortion and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
This column represents my having come to the conclusion that we’re banging our heads against the wall trying to get that done, and we could be saving a lot more babies if we stopped wasting our time banging our heads against that wall and started putting all our efforts into trying to convince people not to have abortions.
I do find it interesting how often you can write a column just saying what you think, and you have people accuse you of secretly being this or that (a libertarian, a paleo, etc.)
No. I’m just a guy who wants to save babies and thinks this is a better way to do it.
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