Talking points for GOP on topic of rape:
1) Rape is a violation of women
2) Perps who rape women should be arrested and sentenced to death penalty.
Next question please.
EXACTLY. NO further discussion needed.
I agree there needs to be a consistent, planned response to questions about rape vs abortion. The left is clearly trying to use this as a wedge issue to weaken Republican support among women. And it is not at all surprising this should happen in TX, where O’s permanent campaign machine has set up camp with the explicit intent to strangle Texas with liberal bilge until it turns blue.
However, I don’t think the proposed talking points are adequate for the subject of rape vs abortion. Every abortion, from whatever cause, ends a legitimate human life. When you shift the argument away from that, you lose the moral high ground. (Conservative) Republicans have no interest in compelling people to do things they don’t want to do. We are for freedom, and as a party always have been. We just want to ensure that freedom extends to everyone with an interest in the outcome of life and death decisions, and that certainly includes the unborn child, as well as the woman who carries the child.
Talking points that do not account for the rights of the child are a surrender to the premise of the left, that it is OK to end innocent human life for utilitarian purposes. Theoretically at least, we are not moral relativists. Every human life has intrinsic worth, and corresponding rights as an expression of that worth.
So on the one hand we cannot left the left beat us back into the corner on this. But do I agree we need to do a better job training our candidates in the art of keeping the focus on the principles, and not letting the clever misdirections of the left get them off message.