John McCain opposes the intentional creation of human embryos for research purposes

JohnMcCain.com ^ | September 13, 2008 | John McCain

[LibFreeUSA]

-"As president, John McCain will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research and other types of scientific study that do not involve the use of human embryos". - www.johnmccain.com

[cmj328]

We should be casting our votes according to God's word, and not feeling like "we" are responsible for who gets into the White House. God is responsible for it.

Sounds like quietism. God has given us the responsibility. He has given us a vote, and with that vote we can determine who gets into the White House. You can't avoid the moral problem.

If we continue to allow "some" babies to be murdered because "most" are saved then we have lost our obedience to God.

That choice has not been given to us by God. Barring some miracle, whoever is elected President will sign an atrocious embryonic and fetal stem cell bill into law next year. Even the Republican Congress passed one such law. Thank God George W. Bush was President and had the guts and honor to oppose it. (Even Bush does favor certain "exceptions" on abortion, so he's not fully "pro-life".)

I think if we elect McCain and Sarah Palin, we've got a fighting chance to make this country more pro-life. Roe could be overturned in the next four years, and some states might begin to legislate restrictions. That won't solve the problem right away, because our culture is very pro-death, but it will at least begin to help heal the culture. Law has a powerful effect on culture.

If we elect Obama, his first act as President would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which nullifies all existing and future abortion restrictions, state and federal, and reinstates partial-birth abortion. It would prevent a future Supreme Court from reversing Roe. It would essentially make the pro-life movement moot.

In the end, it is your choice between McCain-Palin, Obama-Biden, and a protest vote or protest lack of vote. You can read the polls and you can read the platforms and you can know, to the greatest extent God allows, what your decision probably will result in.

I think John McCain will keep his word on judges. He was beaten up by pro-lifers for McCain-Feingold but he hasn't wavered in his opposition to Roe. His choice of a pro-life VP candidate gives us reason to continue to trust him to keep his word.

For me, although I'm excited about McCain, because of his "exceptions" I'll still be voting against Obama. Just like I voted against Kerry.

[Blogger]

Then 4,000,000 babies (just those 4 years) will have to die, I suppose. All because you can’t see the forest for the trees. Tragic.

[trisham]

I applaud your moral superiority. In the face of doing good for some, you refuse because others will not be spared.

It would be wrong to save those we can if it compromises our principles.

[aft_lizard]

Nothing elitist about my statement. A couple of knee jerkers said that the Stem Cell Ad was their tipping point for not voting for McCain, with out fully reviewing McCains stance on it. I am sorry but if people are going to make a political stance based off of a commercial then they deserve derision.

[roamer_1]

Then 4,000,000 babies (just those 4 years) will have to die, I suppose. All because you can’t see the forest for the trees. Tragic.

Add them up for the last 30 years. That is what compromise and patience has wrought. Your platitudes are without truth. Voting *FOR* McCain's abortions is voting *FOR* settlement. Far better to fight in opposition with a clear message and a righteous heart, than to compromise and lose it all.

[roamer_1]

but he hasn't wavered in his opposition to Roe

The hell he hasn't.

If we elect Obama, his first act as President would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act,

How is it that he can breeze in and get that done, but in thirty years, the Republicans have not been able to give us the RTL Act?

[Blogger]

Two words...Democratic Congress. That is why we could lose it all if Obama gets in. Your arguments do not hold water. Right now we have the ability to save some babies, as opposed to none. This is not an academic argument for us to sit on our hands and wait out. This is a call to action to vote the best choice available and put forward even better candidates in the future. Contrary to a surrender, it is making the best of what we have and demanding more.