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OK. Then how about some manners? Hostettler, speaking to his constituents, managed to piss off most of them. What did he accomplish? What did his "abortion leads to breast cancer" idealism do to advance the pro-life cause? Little, if you ask me.

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Shoving abortion in their faces is likely to make them vote against Hostettler. He's an ass for not having any manners.

The "let's not offend anyone by talking about abortion and just hope abortion goes away on its own" tactic has been tried and it failed. This congressman made the courageous decision to say what needed to be said rather than merely say what his audience wanted to hear. It was his call and he chose principle over votes and I applaud him for it. What you call manners I call cowardice.

The "let's not offend anyone by talking about abortion and just hope abortion goes away on its own" tactic has been tried and it failed.

Are you kidding? Blocking abortion clinic entrances while yelling "murderers", waving pictures of fetuses in the faces of grade school children are what have been tried, and they've failed miserably. Now we've got congressmen subtly implying God-knows-what to a bunch of breast cancer survivors and NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM had ever had an abortion!

I'm as pro-life as anyone on this board, but this kind of proselytizing is why pro-lifers are viewed as kooks.

And, as you know, nobody listens to a kook.