Posted on 08/31/2011 1:19:03 PM PDT by CA Conservative
When Rick Perry signed the Susan B. Anthony List’s pro-life pledge last week, it raised a few eyebrows among those who recall his endorsement of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2008, a noted pro-choice Republican. Perry insisted that a President Giuliani would appoint conservative jurists to the bench and that his personal views would not be relevant. Four years later, Perry now says that, if nominated, he will make sure his running mate is not just pro-life, but an advocate for the cause:
Surging Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, the Texas governor, has pledged to influential Christian leaders that he will push pro-life policies, oppose gay marriage, and pick cabinet officials and a vice president who share his values, a promise that would rule out a Perry-Rudy Giuliani ticket.
"At a weekend Texas gathering of about 200 conservative leaders, some from Washington, Perry and his wife Anita portrayed themselves as authentic and life-long conservatives who could bring the most pro-life administration ever to Washington."
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
See post 57.
And oil companies.
A wife of one of hubby’s co-workers was raped and got pregnant as a result. This happened to her not too long after abortion became legal and was thought to be the savior of so many women- she did not feel she could raise the child of her rapist. Her solution was to carry the baby and give her up for adoption. I admired her so much for her choice because at the time many of her friends (Christians!) and even her doctor were pressuring her to have an abortion. The woman stood up to all of them and would tell everyone that knew about it that the baby was innocent and she could not take its life. So many thought she was crazy not to just have an abortion.
So all those pro-life groups in Texas who give Perry high marks are what?
It was my first wife and no, unfortunately she was never the same after that. At the time of her attack, she and I were just friends, the marriage came later. I had thought that she was ok. It took her a couple of decades and one ruined marriage before she finally seems to have some sense of normalcy in her life.
Rape should be a capital offense.
Part of the fund-raising, vote-gathering scam.
God bless her and any woman making the same choice. But NO woman should ever be FORCED to carry to term the offspring of her rapist. Counseled to? YES. Forced to? No.
So they are either stupid or corrupt. Which is it?
Liars?
(poor taste sarcasm)
Thank you for sharing that story Tammy. I know it probably wasn’t easy for the principle in your story but if she is a Christian woman at least she doesn’t have to deal with the knowledge that she terminated the life of an innocent child. Adoption is always a better choice than abortion.
I would argue with them but it’s been a long day. Maybe tomorrow, on another thread.
I would argue with them but it’s been a long day. Maybe tomorrow, on another thread.
Makes no difference. The result is the same either way.
And the current policy will make any fiscal sanity established, irrelevant.
Both need to be fixed.
The best way to make an immediate impact in solving the abortion problem is to stop paying for it. As a practical matter it is much easier to sell the unavoidable mathematical fact of the USA being broke than it is to wade directly into the thick of a highly polarized and emotional issue. Cutting out the social services freebies cuts the flow of cash to the creation, maintenance, and promotion of abortion.
The problem of the culture that creates demand for abortion is one that will take a long time to solve, but we can have a real, lasting, and immediate impact just by setting our financial priorities straight and cutting out the unnecessary spending from government budgets.
I am a firm believer that there should be darned few things we should ever be FORCED to do so I certainly agree with that. The point I was making was that woman had a lot of pressure to have an abortion, I think few people thought she was sane to carry the baby to term. Her husband did completely support her decision though and in my opinion he is the only one whose opinion should have mattered.
So you are saying that all pro-life groups in the state of Texas are either fools or liars?
Do you seriously believe that?
Because you know what the implication is if you seriously believe that, don’t you?
Years later she told me she always had a very hard time on the birthdate of the child. She said she had often through the years second guessed her decision to give the baby up for adoption, but never considered having an abortion so never regretted that decision.
I know from experience.
It ain’t just Texas, either.
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