Posted on 11/13/2004 6:05:41 AM PST by cpforlife.org
PRO-LIFE WARNING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
We believe that abortion is infanticide, and that a holocaust of infants is taking place. We do not believe that there is any other issue on Earth that compares with abortion in moral import. And therefore, there is no policy or combination of policies you Republicans can offer, including perfect tax policies, tort reform, and every other thing that is near and dear to Republican hearts, that matters a damn if abortion is overlooked and allowed to slide by.
We know that this issue has to be settled in the Supreme Court, nowhere else. And we know that the opportunity to put new justices on the court comes once in a decade, maybe, and that the current opportunity to alter the complexion of the court is not going to come again for a generation. Therefore, the real possibility exists that abortion can finally be seriously curtailed, soon, by the Supreme Court changing Roe v. Wade or eliminating it...IF, and ONLY IF, we can get pro-life judges on that court.
To do that, we have trusted the Republicans for years. We just came out and voted for you again this time, in unprecedented numbers, because we are not stupid and we know what is at stake. Not just evangelicals either. The religious CATHOLIC vote went Republican in 2004, and they didn't do it because of trade policy or even gay marriage. Their issue is abortion.
And the overriding issue is abortion.
So, if the Republicans allow Senator Specter to get the Chair of the Judiciary Committee and he blocks pro-life nominees, or if the Republicans do not use the nuclear option to override Democrat filibusters of pro-life nominees, THIS TIME there is no place for Republicans to hide. WE KNOW that you have the power, now, because WE just voted to give it to you. We understand that you can block Specter. And we understand the nuclear option.
And therefore, we most certainly will understand that if you allow the pro-life judges to be blocked, that it will be your political CHOICE to have done so. You CAN put pro-life judges on the bench, if you expend a lot of political capital. This will offend some people - a lot of people. And that is the price you HAVE to pay to get our votes next time. You have to be willing to bet the whole house to end infanticide.
If not, we will not vote for you. We won't go running to vote for the Democrats: they're pro-abortion. We won't go out and form a third party: we're not stupid and know that won't work. We'll just stay home, just like we did in 2000. Except that in 2000 it was out of frustration and neglect, and the lack of belief that anything will change. There was no organized campaign to keep the pro-life vote home in 2000.
This time, it's different. We understand the system, and we know that you have the power. And we demand that you use the power straight down the line to fill the high court and the appellate courts with judges who will protect the lives of babies. Period. This is not negotiable. At all. This is why we voted for you. You have nothing with which to bargain with us, and if you screw us, we will stay organized and we will stay home purposely to destroy the Republican party. Because if you do not protect the babies when you have the power to do it, you are no better than the Democrats...and worse, you will have lied to us.
This means, in effect, that all of those things YOU care most about: taxation, immigration, trade and business policy, deregulation - all of those core issues that come as an economic package, are held hostage to our issue: babies. If you will not protect the babies, we will stay home and let the Democrats destroy everything that YOU believe in.
This is called "Chicken". It is called a "Mexican Standoff". And since we are fired up by the certitude that we are doing God's work in defending babies, we cannot be bought, and you cannot win so much as an election for dog catcher in this country without us.
Therefore, the solution is simple and obvious: give us what we voted for you to do. Give us pro-life judges. Use all of your power to do it. Sweep Specter out of the way: is he worth losing all the rest of your agenda? - because we really will stay home and throw the country to the Democrats if you're no better than they are on abortion, just to punish YOU for having betrayed us. When the filibusters come, and they will come, use the nuclear option to override them. That will poison the Senate, yes. So what? We are talking about babies here. And with our votes, militantly mobilized because we are winning, alongside of yours, in 2006 and 2008 and beyond, even if the Senate is poisoned, you will be able to replace it with a more Republican one.
That there is even a debate going on as to what to do with Specter is alarming, but we have had our hearts broken before, so we'll sit and pray and trust President Bush and Senator Frist and the Republicans to do the right thing.
Screw us, though, and we will turn on you and your whole agenda will go down the drain with the blood of the babies you wouldn't put your power on the line to save.
The easy solution, the win-win solution, is to BE as pro-life as you campaigned as being. Just do it.
I apologize for the length of this post. But it needed to be said. The Republicans do not seem to get it. They need to understand that we are more committed to saving babies than we are to the fortunes of the Republican Party. That Specter is still in play demonstrates that too many of them do not take this seriously.
Rather than test us, what you guys should do is simply cave, now, and give us what we want. Do that, and you wont hear from us again - there will be no creeping theocracy in America - because this is about the only religious issue that Catholics and Orthodox and Evangelicals AGREE on.
Don't be ridiculous.
Armed robbery is against the law..
But people still do it..
And THAT is my point..
Don't try that stupid word substitution crap on me..
I've played that game for a long time, and it won't work.
Our Survival is in God's hands not ours.
Our Annihilation as a Nation for the abomination of child sacrifice is in God's hands too.
Every day that we continue to perpetrate the abortion slaughter is like a 9/11 attack against God. That's every single day! We should fear God far more than we fear Bin Laden.
"And I will not force a victim of rape or incest (which is almost always,also rape) to go through 9 months of forced torture simply for the sake of the child. (especially in the case of incest, where often the mother is still a child herself )"
Pregnancy is not torture, abortion is both torture and murder. You would compound the crime? Have you neither love of life or of God?
Considering the very short life span of aborted babies, I beg to differ with you.
Don't be ridiculous.
Abortion WAS against the law..
But people still did it..
And THAT is my point.. (Uh, what point was that again?)
"This needs to be put on the desk of George Bush. Specter is his man, now let Bush take care of the loser."
AMEN!! And I think it just could be.
Ooooooo....don't tell Howlin about this thread...!
Go look at your microwave..
It's good for popcorn, and heating up chile..
It does it real fast.
The world is not a microwave, and you have to stop thinking you can have everything you want, NOW..
Grow up..
Some things take time, and you cannot change the attitudes of 300 million people just because YOU want it NOW..
Telling your allies "Grow Up" is a poor tactic. As for things taking time, since 1973 more than 40,000,000 children have been slaughtered. 4,000 or more will die TODAY. I've waited, I've worked and I will keep working until this crime stops.
Let me ask you this - do you think that it's not realistically possible to expect a Republican Congress to even introduce a resolution proposing a Human Life Amendment and to have a debate and an up or down vote on the resolution? Is it really too early to even start a legistlative dialogue on the issue of abortion?
Abortion is an important issue to a lot of people. Roe v. Wade has stifled meaningful, comprehensive debate on the issue of abortion. People who feel strongly about this issue are not going to feel that our system provides legitimate political mechanisms for change if they cannot even be heard to debate the issue in our legislative chambers.
Isn't there anyone in the Congressional leadership who is even willing to introduce a resolution proposing a Human Life Amendment?
I am aware that Congress has power to regulate the jurisdiction of federal courts, but abortions cannot be prevented by a total absence of any future court decisions.
The mistake of Roe v. Wade was that it removed abortion from our ordinary political processes. Win or lose, people have a right to a political debate on this issue. Why wouldn't the introduction of a resolution proposing a Human Life Amendment be a good way to reintroduce abortion to our political process?
The real question for you and the GOP is do you want me (and millions like me) to work with you or against you. Fail to make progress on this issue and you will lose some of us. Reverse course and we leave, en masse. Fact, not threat.
You are the perfect example of "extremist"..
You would force the victim of a rape to re-live that act every day of her life, for 9 months..
Force her to be raped, mentally, for 270 days straight..
To satisfy Your Moral Conscience..
How sorry is that ?
"Don't try that stupid word substitution crap on me..
I've played that game for a long time, and it won't work."
Judging by the strength of your reaction, it obviously did work. The fallaciousness of your logic cannot be used to justify keeping abortion legal as the same logic can be used to justify legalising all other crime.
The fact that people will continue to commit criminal acts anyway, is never a justification for legalising those acts.
ROFLMAO !!!
And you just proved MY POINT !!!
Please NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
LOL
Aha, so we agree. The law, as such, will not stop all evil. Answer this, how many abortion would be performed daily if the law made it a crime? The same as now? More? Less?
BTW, what you've "proved" is that laws do not stop all evil. No one suggests that they do. You, otoh, imply that making EVIL legal is good policy.
No, we should execute the child for the crimes of its father simply to satisfy yours...
You would allow the murder of an child whose only crime is existance to satisfy your lack of a moral conscience, how sorry is that?
I am VERY pro-life, but my reaction to a threat would be anger, and disgust at the lack of trust.
These public displays tend to do more damage than good and give our guys less room to manuver.
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