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To: Norman Bates
You people need to get it through your heads: THE PRESIDENT CANNOT DETERMINE ABORTION LAW.

The next best thing is a president who will strive to appoint judges that will overturn Roe and give the decision-making power back to the states. There is no president -- NOR SHOULD THERE EVER BE AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT -- who wields the power to make abortion a punishable crime nation-wide. As has been pointed out here, murder is a state's issue; certainly abortion belongs there as well, then.

You grasp for the red-herring item that Thompson finds disagreeable the prospect of states making it so that young girls, their parents, and doctors be held criminally liable for abortions, and Thompson states PLAINLY that just because he holds a certain view, he doesn't think he should have the power to make all the rest of America abide by those views. People of your mindset refuse to hear that part.

Engaging in willful self-deception and pretending your own lack of ability to grasp the truth is somehow Thompson's fault, is destructive. And a very poor representative of "moral" thinking.

504 posted on 11/04/2007 12:46:03 PM PST by Finny (There are many enemies in our work. One of them is envy. -- A British naval officer)
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To: Finny

Stop yelling please.

You presume a lot in that post. We’ll leave it at that.


505 posted on 11/04/2007 12:50:56 PM PST by Norman Bates
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