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.
When my native state of Connecticut was the most antiabortion in the nation, the murderous witches of Planned Barrenhood drove van loads of pregnant girls to pro-abort New York to kill their babies. State solutions are, by no means, fully practical solutions.
In state and federal courts, I have represented arrested pro-lifers (1100 of them and 30 were convicted). I have also protected sidewalk counselors, pro-life protesters on sidewalks and highways, people who create crisis pregnancy centers, churches and pastors of my Catholic religion and others, served on boards of pro-life groups, worked within the YAF, CRs, YRs, GOP senior party and as a state chairman of Reagan's challenge to pro-abort Ford (by which we took policy control of the GOP even though Reagan's presidency was postponed for four years). I have given legal counsel to pregnant women who called me anonymously after seeing me on TV in defense of Rescuers.
If you counsel a political pacifism in the face of thirty-four years of the American Holocaust or even limitation of the fight to the state arena only, then you cannot blame people for assuming your lack of bona fides as a pro-lifer if you truly understand the issue. If you do not understand the issue, don't write about it. The key to you being labeled paleo or libertarian is this question of "federalism" somehow being in the way of imposition of pro-life policies nationally.
So, precisely and specifically what means have you been personally following in "banging your head against the wall" in favor of the babies when you could have been persuading people not to murder their offspring?
My long dead Irish grandmother used to say: Show me your friends and I will tell you what you are. Prove her wrong.