To hear the mainstream news media tell it, the only issue really in play in the 2008 Presidential election is the war in Iraq.
And, lest the voting public forget, the media are quick to report each casualty, mishap, and difficulty in Baghdad as mounting evidence for an immediate and unqualified U.S. troop withdrawal.
What you're not hearing about is an issue that is likely to have a decisive impact on the Presidential race: abortion.
That's right -- the issue the media hate to talk about is still important to a vast number of voters. And, for a majority of those for whom abortion is the top issue, a pro-life candidate is the only acceptable choice.
Get Ready for 2008, A Pro-Life Candidate Will Win the Presidential Election
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When Emilio Gonzales lies in his mother's arms, sometimes he'll make a facial expression that his mother says is a smile.
But the nurse who's standing right next to her thinks he's grimacing in pain.
Which one it is -- an expression of happiness or of suffering -- is a crucial point in an ethical debate that has pitted the mother of a dying child against a children's hospital, and medical ethicists against each other.
Fight over baby's life support divides ethicist
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