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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Every four years the GOP debates and wrangles over the exact wording of its pro-life platform since it was first put in by Judge Charles Pickering in 1976. The exact words to used to promote a prolife agenda is carefully crafted.

Yet, the libetarians want a pass on way they have a pro-choice platform. A double standard for sure by the people who fume about the GOP not agreeing with them on every single issue.

27 posted on 05/21/2002 1:42:35 PM PDT by afuturegovernor
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To: afuturegovernor
Yet, the libetarians want a pass on way they have a pro-choice platform.

You just don't get it, do you? You are completely clueless about what libertarianism is all about. Either that, or you are willfully avoiding the point.

The point is that the government, particularly the Federal Government, has *no business* making such a moral decision for the People. It has nothing to do whether it is right or wrong to have an abortion, but *who is empowered to make the choice*. Libertarians believe the individual is empowered to make that decision; Democrats and Republicans believe the Federal Government should make that decision.

As someone with strong libertarian leanings, I tend to agree that the federal government shouldn't be deciding this: the Constitution doesn't give them that power, not unless they are prepared to state that the unborn are citizens with the same rights as those who've been born: then they would have some say in the matter in accordance with the Constitution. They haven't done that and aren't likely to.

So, quit playing games around the point: you believe, evidently, that the government should run our lives; we believe that individuals should run their own lives and pay the unfettered consequences, both good and bad, for their actions.

Tuor

54 posted on 05/21/2002 4:12:56 PM PDT by Tuor
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To: afuturegovernor
Every four years the GOP debates and wrangles over the exact wording of its pro-life platform since it was first put in by Judge Charles Pickering in 1976. The exact words to used to promote a prolife agenda is carefully crafted. Yet, the libetarians want a pass on way they have a pro-choice platform. A double standard for sure by the people who fume about the GOP not agreeing with them on every single issue.

As usual, no intelligent comment on the issue, just off topic drivel.

105 posted on 05/21/2002 8:49:20 PM PDT by Protagoras
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