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.
Maybe not.........LOL.
Self-Defence ? Enforcement of the Law? War?
Is there a difference between killing and murder?
Do you believe in capital punishment?
Yes, emphatically yes to all of the above.
Whose life is more important?
Mother ? Child ?
Who makes the choice? You? Me?
Both lives are equally important. Neither should be sacrificed to save the other, except on a voluntary basis (for example, the Saint who chose to deny herself chemotherapy rather than have it kill her then unborn child). The "choice" is to kill or not. Since the unborn child cannot make an informed choice of self-sacrafice, every effort ought to be made to save BOTH lives. Your turn, if you please.
Also --- the generations growing up now are abortion survivors --- they are born to mothers who were obviously willing to suffer the inconvenience and cost of giving birth and raising children. The abortion side has been killing their children --- so you can expect some big shifts to the pro-life & Conservative side.
See post 271 and my reply.
I don't feel the "need" at all; certainly not as much as you all feel the need 1) to seperate yourselves from the rest of the GOP or 2) to repeatedly tell us that if we don't do exactly what you're saying, you're leaving.
That being said, I am a stickler for the facts; and these are the facts.
my daughter is trying that with her breath. She is two and 1/2.
Yes to all. BTW, mine is the SAME position as that of all orthodox Catholics.
Not if those new judges honored their oaths to support the Constitution.
"Due process" is a well established Constitutional right. It even applies to pregnant women, believe it or not.
You are missing the point. We believe that abortion is a more serious evil than 911. Slaughtering millions of innocent babies is a greater evil than Bin-Laden and his band of sickos.
Imagine having video tape on the Internet of Bin-Laden's boys beheading 3,000 children at an American Preschool. How much outrage would that produce in your soul. This is how we view abortion.
The outrage cannot be dampened by other issues! You all in our minds are acting exactly like John Kerry was toward terrorism. We need you to understand this.
Hi Spiff. I thought you left in 1998 to restore the constitution over at yahoo.
We already have clean sterile murder rooms--in prisons. No reason a guy should have to be electrocuted or gassed inhumanely when we have the technology to do it better.
I am beginning to believe you suffer from a perpetual case of Republican Bickeritis.
Get well soon.
Abortion is due process? Read your own tag-line.
Dear narses,
You may wish to point out that the law only permits positive action to end another's life when the other is no longer in a position of innocence.
We recoil in horror at the thought of executing an innocent person. We seek to avoid, at high cost, even accidentally killing civilians in war. We send cases of alleged self-defense to grand juries to assure that the homicide was justified by self-defense.
We do not ever, ever accept that it is lawful to take positive action to directly, intentionally kill an innocent human being.
Except with abortion.
sitetest
Oh, wait; I think I jumped YOU by just skimming your post and making an assumption!
I owe YOU the apology!
And for the record, I sucked the lemon and it was SOUR.
Well, then, It's ALL YOUR FAULT !!
( If DU can do it, so can I, ! )
Dear narses,
You may wish to point out that the law only permits positive action to end another's life when the other is no longer in a position of innocence.
We recoil in horror at the thought of executing an innocent person. We seek to avoid, at high cost, even accidentally killing civilians in war. We send cases of alleged self-defense to grand juries to assure that the homicide was justified by self-defense.
We do not ever, ever accept that it is lawful to take positive action to directly, intentionally kill an innocent human being.
Except with abortion.
sitetest
Narses, I am a she.
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