Posted on 11/13/2007 8:31:22 AM PST by Reagan Man
It’s here on FR. Posted last day or so.
Good to see NRTL isn’t the sell-out Pat Robertson is.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200711/POL20071113c.html
Alas, they will regret it.
I saw Freddy and the Dreamers once. They danced real funny and had like one hit record.
Very strange decision. Thompson opposes the RTL amendment, so if he had his way the states would decide. Then all of the blue states and many red states would go pro-abo. In the end Thompson’s ‘way’ would add on, at most, a trip of a few hundred miles to each pro-choice “mom”.
Not at all. It was a very sound decision. And Fred doesn't oppose a HLA. He believes that overturning Roe v Wade and returning the abortion issue to the purview of the states, where it resided for 200 years, would be the best decision to make at this time. And the NRTL agrees.
Retruning RvW to the states is callled federalism. Federalism was supported by the Founders, Ronald Reagan and Fred Thompson. So, Fred`s in good company. Sending the abortion issue back to the states would actually reduce abortions on a national basis. It would allow the people to have their Constitutional right to vote on the issue. Something the 1973 Supreme Court decision would not allow.
I would think that NRTL would favor the life amendment, so this entire incident has opened my eyes. I favor states rights, but do you think the right to murder a baby is a “right” that a state should have? Thompson does, and, apparently, so does; NRTL. That’s why I feel a strangeness about the decision, because I just haven’t gotten my head around the fact that NRTL is anything but.
Seriously, how is abortion a state right? Can Kentucky pass a law saying it’s OK to execute every 100th person as long as that person’s mother agrees? Wouldn’t the Federal Government step in immediatly, and wouldn’t Fred Thompson agree with the Federal government stopping Kentucky’s law? What is the difference between this and not passing a constitutional amendment to end abortion? “Sending it back to the states” just kills the kids a little bit slower, but it still kills them.
Ignoring what is stated in the article serves no good purpose. The NRTL favors a HLA. Fred got the NRTL endorsement. Those are the facts.
I suggest you get a copy of the Constitution and read it. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention anything about abortion. According to the 10th amendment, that makes it a decision for the states.
Amendment 10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Also, nowhere in the Constitution does it mention the words unborn, fetus or conception. All this talk about how the 14th amendment protects the unborn and makes the fetus a person, just doesn't hold water. In 21st century America, the fetus is not a person under current law. Sad but true. Adding a Human Life Amendment would change the Constitution and thereby, change the current law. Something like, "life begins at conception", would be a good start. After 35 years and over 300 proposals in Congress, there has been no success in getting beyond even the first step. Its a difficult process and in the long run, it may never happen.
A better chance for success, is getting that fifth pro-life justice on the high court. Roe v Wade will be abolished as the national policy of the US government. A decision all pro-lifers have been waiting for since 1973. But the high court is not about to rule that life begins at conception. That would be conservative activism not unlike the liberal activism that gave us RvW to start with.
If you are with Huckabee, FOX NEWS reports (Carl Cameron campaign series) that Thompson says people will soon get to know the Arkansas former governor a lot better. ???
I think a smear campaign is planned and this forum thread over at GLP may possibly be the first volley in a war against Huckabee:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message466252/pg1
BTTT for Thompsosn.
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