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"All I can say is there will be a large number of republicans seeking a new party. Maybe they will help remove the LP's pro-abort plank, who knows, stranger things have occurred."

I was getting ready to change my registration to LP and had it all filled out, but I couldn't bring myself to send it in. At this point, I'm inclined to side with Mark Crutcher, of Life Dynamics -- Republicans are worthless. But I won't join the LP with their current plank.

If they changed:

Recognizing that abortion is a very sensitive issue and that people, including libertarians, can hold good-faith views on both sides, we believe the government should be kept out of the question.

We condemn state-funded and state-mandated abortions. It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion.

It is the right and obligation of the pregnant woman, not the state, to decide the desirability or appropriateness of prenatal testing, Caesarean births, fetal surgery, voluntary surrogacy arrangements, and/or home births.

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We condemn state-funded and state-mandated abortions. It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion.

Then I'm 90% there.

At this point, I'm inclined to side with Mark Crutcher, of Life Dynamics -- Republicans are worthless.

Of course they are...they're not pro-life either. The Republican establishment, including many (maybe most) explicitly "pro-life" elected politicians, love abortion for it's social benefits (less welfare, fewer single parent families, lower taxes stemming from those two). They use Roe V. Wade as an excuse to do nothing while still courting the pro-life single issue vote. It's a neat, and very clever, scam they've been running for coming up on three decades now. As I've repeatedly mentioned on this board, the federal government currently has the power to virtually eliminate the practice of abortion if it wanted to by enacting powerful policies that would discourage abortion without restricting it. The fact that it has chosen to not use that power, particularly during times when it's been under the control of the "pro-life" Republican Party, is very telling.

Anyone who is voting Republican for this issue alone and waiting for them to do something is a fool.

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We condemn state-funded and state-mandated abortions. It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion.

That and overturn Roe/Wade

We could use your help, but that is your decision to make.

Thanks for your thoughtful input here.

It has always astounded me how "Republicans" can claim that they wont change to "Libertarian" over one or two issues, when they dont even agree with the Republican party on 75% of their platform. The only answer I can come to is that most "two-partiers" have ben so brainwashed by the Dems and 'Pubs to think that anyone in a "third party" is some looney nut. The Republican party has marched in-step with the Democrats for the past 20 years, at least, leading this country down the path to Hell, but many Republicans keep bailing water instead of jumping ship and saving themselves. Its sad.