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To: NYer
Obama isn't here, but a man with a bullhorn shouted at him that change should mean an end to abortion.

The protester is correct but Obama will not end abortion, he can't. Just as Reagan. Bush and Bush could not end abortion.

6 posted on 01/21/2009 11:04:23 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

If I were president, I would declare a state of emergency, then close the abortion mills by executive order. The resulting legal meltdown would last for a year or more, during which time the damned things would be padlocked. Meanwhile, I would use the power of the bully pulpit and an all-out media offensive to back a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every person the right to life. The Congressional passage and ratification by the states of this amendment would become the focal point of my entire presidency. Every press conference, photo op, and State of the Union speech would begin with the words “The Right To Life Amendment must be ratified”.

Of course, I could never be president. I’m far too abrasive a personality to be a PR frontman. Next to me, Pat Buchanan looks like Martha Stewart. Reporters would leave my press conferences in tears.

The problem is cultural. We are not a Christian nation — we are a liberal nation, a nation heir to the “enlightenment” and the Revolution. The people of our nation worship individual Liberty, including the liberty to kill our unborn children, above all — and they will not surrender their “freedom to choose” easily. I suspect that the only way legal abortion will ever be eliminated in the US is by means of a military coup, a civil war, or the return of Christ.


12 posted on 01/21/2009 11:41:18 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: trumandogz
"...that change should mean an end to abortion."
.." but Obama will not end abortion, he can't. Just as Reagan. Bush and Bush could not end abortion"

Actually, Bush ENDED many abortions...
thru executive orders controlling federal funds, many abortions were not 'provided' for, thus he reduced the availability and numbers.

Bush believed in the sanctity of life and acted on that principle,
'O' does not, and there will be an increase in funding and preformed abortions globally, under his rule

Sadly, an 'END' to abortion will be achieved through a slower process of reduction, rather than a complete prohibition of the butchery.
That said, even one avoided is something to rejoice greatly about.

14 posted on 01/21/2009 12:29:38 PM PST by xhrist ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. " - C.S. Lewis)
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