Oh sweet Jesus just shut the hell up.
"I am 100% pro life. I believe abortion is taking the life of an innocent human being.
I believe life begins at conception and it is the duty of our government to protect this life.
I will always vote for any and all legislation that would end abortion or lead us in the direction of ending abortion. I support a Human Life Amendment and have co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act as federal solutions to the abortion issue. In addition, I support a Sanctity of Life Amendment, establishing the principle that life begins at conception. This legislation would define life at conception in law, as a scientific statement."
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Would you two go back to each one of my posts and point out where I explicitly said that I supported the principle I dictated? I didn’t, so stop quoting me or purporting that I did.
I do not believe it is in the government’s interest nor any business of the public to legislate abortion one way or the other. Having worked in the health care industry, I understand that it is a medical procedure that, when done by an experienced surgeon, can save the life of the mother and/or the baby.
I have a very close friend from college with endometriosis who conceived and was forced to decide to have an abortion to save her own life or carry the child to term. She carried that baby boy until her 35th week and was admitted to the hospital due to complications. Her baby, despite being born premature, was healthy and is now a very happy and active 8 year old. She chose to carry that child despite overwhelming odds against her and physical pain and against the advice of doctors. She chose life.
I also know a woman from a battered women’s sheltered many years back who was raped in an alleyway on the way home from class. She decided to have an abortion after 5 weeks. To this day, the question of, “Who would that child have been?” haunts her. She’s haunted by her choice, but I do not hold her in any lesser regard than my friend who is now a mother. Her sin is for her to repent.
Just as Sen. Paul said, ...”there are thousands of exceptions...” The only thing I’ve definitively come out to say on this surrounding my own beliefs is in post 44 I said, “Abortion for the sake of ‘correcting a mistake’ is grotesque and in violation of tenets in every Christian faith,” and I stand behind that.
This CNN interviewer had Rand Paul pigeonholed and wanted him on the record saying he supported abortion in some way, shape, or form, and they succeeded. Paul discussed the issue from a medical perspective, and for that, I applaud him. He made it as non-political and non-religious as he could considering the circumstances.
I stand behind his legislation, but that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate insomuch as we shouldn’t be having this discussion to begin with. The Liberals opened this can of worms back in the 70s, and now it’s hanging like a stone around the necks of every American based on their position on the subject.
Just because a Catholic like myself believes that abortion is morally objectionable and against the tenets of my faith does not mean I’m going to stand up for an amendment to a law that should not have been affirmed in the first place. These should be private medical decisions made by competent adults. There should not be advertisements for subsidization of these procedures because some ghetto whore can’t stop sleeping around with every man in the neighborhood. Defending the indefensible is no different than affirming the act itself.