Posted on 09/13/2010 8:46:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
KANSAS CITY, MO - Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a stop in Kansas City on Monday to speak at a benefit where she shared her experiences as an expectant mother as she helped raise money for a pro-life organization.
A crowd of 1,500 gathered to raise funds at the annual dinner for the Vitae Foundation, a pro-life organization. She says that the issue of abortion is one that makes the country seem upside-down.
"My daughter can't get her ears pierced without parental consent, but she can get an abortion," said Palin, who then said that changing the laws isn't her prime mission, but to change the hearts and minds of those who are faced with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.
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It should be.
I once heard a wise man say that if you get a man by the gonads his heart and mind will follow wherever you lead him. Seems like there should be a political application there someplace!
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By the way, how did that liquor prohibition in the U.S. work out? No one drank, right? After all it was illegal.
Until you let go.
Think about it. Her prime mission saves the life of an unborn baby right now, today. If her prime mission is to change the laws, that baby dies in the meantime. I have no doubt Sarah Palin would love to see the act of abortion outlawed.
I’ll have to go with the others who have said that changing the hearts and minds of those who find themselves in the position to think of abortion, is the more expedient course.
Change the hearts and minds of enough people, and the left’s wedge issue becomes a non issue. At which point you’ll find changing the law a lot easier to accomplish.
“To 3 - Palin is correct. Until more people look at abortion as an abhorrent evil it will not disappear.
Just make it illegal and that’ll stop it?”
You are both right. It should be marginalized morally. and at the same time it should be restricted as much as possible legally. Reversing Roe would be a huge step. It would immediately become unavailable in half the states.
It will never completely disappear, since it is an evil that has existed since antiquity. But it can be stigmatized (part of which involves making it illegal, immediately if possible but gradually if necessary).
I honestly believe that in this century, the action of abortion will become as stigmatized as the pronunciation of the n-word. It will be re-stigmatized, in effect. This re-stigmatization, in my estimation, can best be effected by a female leader, preferably a mother who has perhaps had a difficult (but ultimately highly rewarding) pregnancy.
Sarah Palin is that person. Her son Trig is the face for all the evil accomplished by abortion. Together, they are a powerful symbol of the good that obtains from the choice of life. Her very prominence on the national scene is a scourge for the act of abortion, a gentle scold for those contemplating it and a spur to those of us who detest it and seeks its elimination from our great County. It is the principal reason the left and the forces of evil aligned with them so detest her.
Look, fighting for the life of children is paramount as you said. Regarding your legal argument; no I would not stop trying to repleal said law. However, we find ourselves in the position where said law is already fact. And the left has been hammering us on it ever since. It’s a wedge issue they use to devide us.
Wining hearts and minds, AND working to overturn the law are not mutually exclusive goals or tactics. This is a war that has to be fought on multiple fronts, and quite frankly, given the ingrained mindset the left has been pounding into the supporters of said law, I don’t see much of a chance of getting it overturned until more hearts and minds are won over.
So don’t exclude or dismiss those who are fighting on that other front.
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