[Old Teufel Hunden]

"but to be fair she never said she was personally pro-choice."

This is the biggest copout going. I'm pro life but I can't tell others what to believe. Look if you're pro life, that means you're pro life whether you are preggers or another woman is. Life is life. You are either against murdering innocent babies or you are not. There is no in between which is what people who say this are doing. Trying to have it both ways. I respect someone who's pro choice more than these types. At least they are intellectually honest.

[UCANSEE2]

Here is a solution.

Do not ban abortions. Stop the government funding of abortions. Let women have them, and both parties to the pregnancy can pay for it. Do the abortions properly and safely. This will cost more. Having to pay the entire fee for an expensive abortion will reduce the number of abortions.

They claim we don’t allow women to decide whether they can have an abortion. I don’t know what country they live in, but women have the right to an abortion under our current laws. What their real argument is about IS MONEY. YOUR MONEY to pay for THEIR ABORTIONS.

That is what the real fight is about.

[shhrubbery!]

This is the biggest copout going. I'm pro life but I can't tell others what to believe. Look if you're pro life, that means you're pro life whether you are preggers or another woman is. Life is life. You are either against murdering innocent babies or you are not. There is no in between which is what people who say this are doing. Trying to have it both ways. I respect someone who's pro choice more than these types. At least they are intellectually honest.

You're right. It was Mario Cuomo who came up with that clever dodge ... "I'm personally against abortion, but cannot impose my opinion/religious beliefs/morals on anyone ..."

The media loved Cuomo for this formulaic nonsense. They pretended his mumbo-jumbo somehow made it OK for a "devout Catholic" (e.g. Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi, various Kennedys) to vote for pro-abortion legislation.