Morality trumps legality.
My beef with the Church regarding abortion is based on realism. They dangle the abortion issue like a carrot in front of us with no historical perspective whatsoever. There is this overriding assumption that Republicans will ever do anything about abortion.
What about the fact that 6 of the 9 judges on the Burger court were Republican appointed judges and that 5 of those Republican judges ruled in favor of Roe v. Wade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Why am I supposed to believe that if we stack the Supreme Court 2 to 1 Republican again that anything will be done about abortion?
What federal laws have ever been passed to end abortion? Even when we had The executive and both houses of congress in 2003 a “partial-birth” abortion ban was put in place. Guess what, it stopped zero abortions. It specifically outlawed intact dilation and extraction and said NOTHING about ending the life of the baby by other means.
After the law was passed, doctors simply stopped the procedure, left the baby in the uterus and used long needles to inject lethal drugs directly into the baby’s hearts. Why would the Republicans do this? It stopped no abortions. I believe it was nothing more than a token placation of the conservative voter.
So we previously had a 2 to 1 majoriy on the Supreme Court and got the legalization of abortion. We had the White House, the House and the Senate in 2003, nothing but a token gesture. Conclusion? They don’t give a damn. Yes, I have become cynical.
Lastly, I looked at abortion statistics over administrations. After legalization in 1973, reported abortions increased and then plateued in 1980.
They slowly increased 60,000 per year under Reagan’s 8 years. They decreased by 60,000 under George HW Bush and decreased by 25,000 under George W Bush.
How much did they decrease by the end of Clinton’s 8 years? 250,000 according to the CDC.
http://www.christianliferesources.com/?/library/view.php&articleid=1042
Now how can Republican politicians and judges claim any moral high ground and for whom can the pro-life conservative voter support with history and facts like these?