The only federal ban on abortion was signed by President Bush. Have you read Post #4 on this thread yet? No President has ever been more pro-life than President Bush.
Also, this 3rd Party talk is nonsensical. Permit me to tell you a bit about 3rd Parties from firsthand experience.
Here in Alabama, the top donors to the Libertarian Party are two Democratic Party trial lawyers. They don't donate their sums to get Libertarians elected, but rather, they do it because the LPA takes 5 Republican voters for every 3 Democrats who cross over to vote for them. Thus, funding the LPA is a cheap investment to sap almost 1% of Alabama's Republican vote advantage away.
In politics it is very difficult to move a block of voters, and a 1% statewide shift is normally very expensive to accomplish, but funding the LPA does it for the Dems here in Alabama year after year.
The arguments that they use are seductive, however. "Vote your principles," they say. "Break the 2 Party system," they promise.
But here's reality: the only people who get elected are those who raise tremendous amounts of money.
If you want to compete against President Bush in the Republican primary, for instance, it would take hundreds of millions to even be competitive. Since no current challengers can raise such funds, he's left without viable Republican competition. Ditto for the Democrats.
On the other hand, winning a 3rd Party nomination can often be done for less than one million Dollars...a fact that betrays just how little chance they have to do anything.
In other words, if a 3rd Party is to be taken seriously enough for you to consider voting for it, then it needs to show that it can raise hundreds of millions of Dollars.
Otherwise, you are voting for an under-funded Party that has no chance of winning nationally.
Which means that you are falling for the Democrats' plan to siphon votes away from Republicans.
Lenin and Marx called such people "useful idiots." I find that term a bit harsh, but it does show the contempt that the Left has for your so-called "principles."
You claim to be pro-life. How will you feel when President Kerry or worse, Mr. Planned Parenthood Doctor Dean himself wins the White House?
Because that's what voting 3rd Party means. It means that you are willing to see a pro-abortion Democratic Party President in office during the very next few years when as many as 5 lifetime Supreme Court Justices are going to be retiring (and will need to be replaced by whomever is sitting in the Oval Office).