RE: These men are HURTING the pro life cause and as a sideline may even be throwing the Presidential election.
There is no excuse for any of this. It is not necessary.
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OK, let’s put you in the position of advising these men... how would you answer the question of “What’s your policy regarding abortion as it relates to a woman who has conceived after being raped?”
You say it isn’t necessary ... BUT YOU MUST ANSWER THE QUESTION, IT *WILL* ( REPEAT — *WILL* ) BE BROUGHT UP.
Let’s listen to your answer if you were in their shoes.
Once again: When asked about rape-and-abortion, say: “What crime has the unborn baby committed?”
And nothing else.
-- Arthur McGowan
>OK, let’s put you in the position of advising these men... how would you answer the question of “What’s your policy regarding abortion as it relates to a woman who has conceived after being raped?”
Easy. “The rape victim makes her own decisions on how to handle her own situation.”
Anything else is open to interpretation and voted against by 80% of the population.
There are any number of things a politician can say.
The most simple is:
___ Every life has value, no matter how it was conceived.
There are many others others:
___ Two wrongs do not make a right.
___ The conceived child is not guilty of anything. Punish the rapist not the child
You could also point out that out of the very small number of women who conceive due to rape, the majority opt to cary the child to term. Therefore we are focussing too much attention on a very very small number of cases rather than the 99.9% of cases of abortion in other circumstances.
If one really wanted to save as many lives as possible, one would focus on the other situations and in the rape situations work to change not the law but to provide a great deal of support and help to the extremely small number of women who find themselves in that very difficult situation. Since it is such an extremely small number, it would not cost that much to have a public restitution program that was very generous. Also the rapist should forfeit all assets acquired up to the time of the crime and a high percentage of any future pay to go into this fund.
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In short, there are hundreds and hundreds of responses that would be 100% pro-life but would not alienate women, sound stupid or insensitive and be completely unnecessary to say.
It really is not that hard.
For politicians, write down 2 or 3 of these not so hard responses and memorize them. Have practice sessions where you have mock journalists trying to “gotcha” on the subject. Politicians do this all the time to prepare for debates, prepare for town halls etc.
It is really NOT HARD to have a 100% pro-life comment ready and to use it. For people who cannot handle such a simple task, they should not be in politics. Even good intentioned stupid people can drag down everyone on their side and hurt the pro-life cause.