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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Sandy Berger, Anita Hill
Al Gore (illegal fundraising w/ White House phones)
John Edwards
Was it Harold Ford? Anyway, the Tennessee Ford with the frozen money.
Alcee Hastings
Wasn’t Ron Brown crooked too?
Janet Reno.
Holder.
Yes, Brown was implicated in some scandals but his untimely death put an end to any real investigation IIRC. Let’s include Biden and his clan, they seem as involved in nepotism as the Kennedys, most of the Dems in Chicago, Ray Nagin, the Dems involved with Abrams, the S&L Dems, the former head of Fannie Mae, the entire ACORN organization which will probable entirely escape investigation.
I’d like to put a statue of Nagin out in front of the Hall - and I want it to have tears streaming down his face.
This may be part of the reason there is so little respect for law these days. When leaders can break the law with impunity because of who they are, why should the “little people” respect the rule of law?
I’ve kinda been wondering - myself - why should I pay my mortgage this month?
Or my credit card bill?
Because you are at heart an honest person who doesn’t need man’s laws to tell you what is right or wrong. It is written on your heart and in your conscience and because, in the words of an old poem, you believe “I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.” “I don’t want to stand at the setting sun and hate myself for the things I’ve done.” “I want to be able as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.” (Can’t remember the order of those lines.)
I’m pulling your leg there - but I wonder how many people will go this route.
As long as the government is handing out free money, and talking about changing interest rates and even knocking down principle - at some point the honest folks will say “there is a real payoff to being a deadbeat!”
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