[ejonesie22]

There is a difference in facing down the Soviet Union and the persuading the American People.

They have heard the message over and over again about abortion being evil. They have been preached to again and again.

Where are we 30 years later?

Nowhere, save a minor victory or two.

Wake up, for the sake of all the innocents who will die due to stubborn refusal to seek a different way in the war against abortion.

[Oliver Optic]

ej, I appreciate your sensible posts ... and I for one am open to a change in pro-life strategy. But doesn't this quote from Thompson sound like he in fact personally wants to keep abortion legal? (I hate to keep citing this ... I'm not trying to spam the thread. I just haven't yet heard a reasonable explanation of this comment that is consistent with Fred being pro-life at all.)

"People ask me hypothetically, you know, OK, it goes back to the states," said Thompson. "Somebody comes up with a bill, and they say we're going to outlaw this, that, or the other. And my response was, I do not think it is a wise thing to criminalize young girls and perhaps their parents as aiders and abettors or perhaps their family physician.

[WildcatClan]

There is no difference, evil is evil. The “evil empire” speech was as much about persuading Americans as it was facing down Russia. They have heard the message, really? A US President has stated that abortion is an inherent evil under no uncertain terms and pounded it home repeatedly, without equivocation?

What we have been doing without a good result is exactly what you are proposing. Approaching the issue with kit gloves. Roe vs Wade is bad decision or I’m pro-life isn’t what I am talking about here at all. My position is not that I am taking a side and I am pro-life. My position is women do not get to make a choice to murder as many of them have already made more than few wrong choices to get to the point where they would want an abortion in the first place. It’s an inherent evil, there is no choice.