Years ago I went along with the standard GOP position of leaving it up to the States. This is the GOP “cop out” position. They can claim they are against abortion.
But are they really?
After pausing long and hard some years back, I decided that I can’t live with that opinion.
Why would it be okay to have a right to life in one state, but not in another state? The left did not like leaving it to the states because they may not have control, so they went whole hog and made it national.
So whether or not a person has the right to live is dependent on who is running the state at the time. No thanks.
I can’t justify that and I no longer try. Granted letting states decide would save some lives for the lucky ones that didn’t get conceived in a death state, but it isn’t what what intended.
FWIW, this is the same position taken last election by Fred Thompson.
Depending on how one looks at it, it is a forward step or a lateral step. It isn’t a step backward.
Where Perry is wrong is in his description of Life as an “issue.” Life is not an “issue.” It is a right....a personal right. More than that, it is an unalienable right granted by the Creator and subject to the whim of no man or group of men. It is the pre-eminent unalienable right, since without this one, no other right or issue makes a difference.
Would the nation be better off, if abortion were illegal in Texas and the other red states. You bet. That many fewer babies would be killed.
That is the line Perry, Thompson, and politicians of the states’ right ilk are trying to walk.
In the same way as I would support a bill outlawing abortion from the 8th week on, so I’d support states being able to outlaw abortion for their own state. That does not mean that I support abortion prior to the 8th week or in the states that would perform them.
I support any advance that can be had.
Yes, as a matter of fact, they do. Murder is a matter of State law, not federal. Likewise rape, robbery, assault, fraud, burglary ...