Posted on 11/24/2008 5:55:34 AM PST by NCDragon
A number of anti-abortion activists across the country have looked fully in the face of a Barack Obama presidency and foreseen that, with this ardently pro-choice president in place, chances that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade in the next four years will be nil.
They prudently have decided to put their energies toward making abortion a less-attractive choice by strengthening the social programs that would help more pregnant women choose life for the unborn.
Other activists have said that this nod to practicality is selling out, that it undermines the progress the pro-life movement has made.
No one is asking anyone to lay down deeply held moral convictions, but as Douglas W. Kmiec, a Pepperdine University law professor and a Catholic who opposes abortion, asked, "If one strategy has failed and failed over decades, and you have empirical information that tells how you can honor life and encourage women to make that choice by meeting real needs that are existing and tangible, why not do that?"
More than 1.2 million abortions are performed each year in the United States. Any effort from any law-abiding front to reduce that number should be praised.
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Abortion combines the two favorite activities of Liberals into one activity:
f****** and killing
There is no way they will ever choose to abandon their favorite legal pastime.
It’s why they call themselves “pro-choice” and not “pro-abortion”. Why else would they give themselves the name?
Liberals believe that if they don’t get their hands bloody, they have no guilt.
I had a convo with a lib about taxes.
The lib in question would not admit that taxes were taken from the payer through the threat of force.
They’ll never admit what they support - they have the layer of abstraction of the government to keep their hands clean.
“There is no way they will ever choose to abandon their favorite legal pastime.”
Which is why it is so ludicris to pretend that abortions can be minimized by paying the “moms” more money to not abort. And the liberals know that. It is just a feel-good sop to conservatives.
“Morality is about imposing standards on others and exempting yourself (”because my situation, of course, is different”).”
yes - I’ve really noticed that last part.
These are sneaky workers who expect everyone else to abide by the rules, but they get to find loopholes.
Or they grin and act cute when they’re caught.
If they get called on the carpet they roll their eyes and wonder what the big deal is.
Weasles.
I’ve noticed a certain New York congressman that perfectly illustrates that principle. Dem, of course. And he’s untouchable, apparently.
When my kids try any of that, I tell them they’re acting like liberals and will grow up to be worthless dregs on society. Then I assign extra chores and P.T. and cut off their computer usage and lose their mp3 players :-).
Sentences I don’t accept include, “I wasn’t doing anything,” and “It’s not my fault!”
You’re shocked that the Raleigh paper supports spending more taxpayer money on the types of programs that got us where we are now?
Are you thinking of a guy who just got (yet another) legal pass for his bizarre behavior?
” I tell them they’re acting like liberals and will grow up to be worthless dregs on society.”
I love it.
I think I’d like to borrow that.
Help yourself :-). The extra work helps drive the lesson home, especially if it’s something major like toilet-training a brother!
I wasn’t thinking about the former governor but of Congressman Rangel with his rent-controlled apartments, tax evasion, and abuse of parking privileges, to name just a few. But the treatment of Spitzer fits the mold of those who eventually get exonerated on questionable grounds. He is probably now a hero again to the liberals. This contrasts a lot with Cunningham or Stevens or other conservatives who get convicted, not that I am justifying their behavior, it just is stunning what a double standard there is here in the media and the justice system.
LOL!
I was thinking of Hinchey!
I know - there’s so many good examples.
We need a Hall of Infamy: Dems who got off because they were Dems.
A very LARGE HALL.
That’s one heckuva big project.
True. Best to get started: Big statues to Robert Byrd, Eliot Spitzer, Hinchey (don’t know him), Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Marc Rich, Cynthia McKinney, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Raum Emanuel, Senator Kennedy (heck, the whole clan), Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Al Sharpton, Barney Frank, Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters, . . . (My brain isn’t in gear yet so I am having trouble coming up with the names: the impeached Forida judge now in congress, the Fannie/9/11 commission/security council woman, the Tennessee congressman, etc.)
wow -my brain is a bit fatigued post-turkey feast here.
I have been a bit fixated on the spectacle of the fannie freddie crooks having the gall to hold hearings where they get to interrogate everybody but themselves.
We’ve gotta have a special place in the hall for the most outlandish.
Ahhh....Hinchey. To know him is to love him.
Slapped a gun dealer in the head before the election.
We had a good candidate running against hime - but to no avail.
A while ago he was caught packing a gun in his luggage in an airport (pre-9/11).
He’s a Pelosi/Reid kissup. Part of the “use it or lose it” gang.
Were you thinking of Jamie Gorelick?
For the good of decent folks everywhere, that woman should be kept in a straightjacket in padded cell for life.
Yeah, Jamie. My mind is a blank today and we didn’t even celebrate T-day today. For us it’s tomorrow while everyone else is shopping. I’ve been e-shopping all day today instead of tryptophan napping.
Mayor Marion Barry.
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