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To: presidentsfriend

She says one fairly good thing and one very bad thing in this article.

The fairly good: "I am a strong proponent of parental choice -- of parental notification. I am a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion." She also favors a culture of life, and promoting adoption over abortion, so that abortion is truly rare.

The very bad: "This should be an issue pretty infrequently because we ought to have a culture that says that, 'Who wants to have an abortion? Who wants to see a daughter or a friend or a sibling go through something like that?'"

That her thinking goes first to the woman who puts a contract on her child, and not the child who is poisoned, dismembered, otherwise brutally murdered, points to a fundamental cluelessness about this major issue. It's like saying, "Child abuse should be an issue pretty infrequently because we ought to have a culture that says that, 'Who wants to abuse a three-year-old? Who wants to see a daughter or a friend or a sibling go through something like that?'"

Dan


42 posted on 03/13/2005 7:28:27 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr

Excellent analogy.


45 posted on 03/13/2005 7:31:07 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: BibChr

I believe you are misunderstanding her.

I believe she makes a case for promoting a culture of reverence for the unborn to the point that most citizens would find aborting a pregnancy to kill a fetus to be too abhorrent to contemplate.


48 posted on 03/13/2005 7:34:09 AM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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