Dear My2Cents,
"Then I say you're both naive about what the crucial aspect is on pro-life issues."
That's what the RINOs keep telling me. ;-)
I guess, like JimRob, I'm just too narrow-minded, etc., to go along with the trashing of the social conservative agenda by the NEW Republican Party.
"It's the courts."
It IS the courts. That's true. The Supreme Court first and foremost.
But not only. Until we're able to overturn Roe, we can do many things to encourage a pro-life perspective among other Americans by raising the issue through matters like partial birth abortion, parental notification and consent, Medicare funding, funding in military hospitals, funding for pro-abort groups, foreign aid funding for pro-aborts, informed consent, etc. Although none of these issues permit us to actually ban abortions, putting them and other related issues before the American public encourages folks to become ever more pro-life.
I kinda have my doubts that Mr. Giuliani would help us with any of these issues.
At all.
As for the courts, Mr. Giuliani has praised Justice Roberts, and Justice Alito. And Justice Scalia. That's great! He's also praised "justice" Ginsburg as being a fine choice for the Court.
He says he'd appoint "strict constitutionalists." That's great!
But he believes that abortion is a constitutional right, that Roe was rightly decided. Thus, for HIM, a "strict constitutionalist" may very well be someone who would vote to uphold Roe.
Not my kinda guy.
sitetest
Let's let him speak for himself once he announces, rather than setting our feet in concrete. Is that too much to ask?
And as to your suggestions for how the administrative branch can influence the issue, even through executive order, all of what you say is true. But here in Calif., parental consent just got knocked off in a statewide ballot measure, yet again. Granted, California is probably a lost cause. But the point is that we can't assume that most American are tracking with these side-bar issues. I, for one, think that a change in the nation's attitude about abortion won't come through political means, but through a revival of Judeo-Christian convictions. There are limits to what politics can do, and what the current atmosphere of politics in this country does best is divide people, not bring them together into a new consensus. My wife and I meet weekly with another couple to pray for spiritual revival of the church, and for America in general. We do this because we do not see politics as the means to bring a change in the hearts of people. I'll do what I can, politically, to forward issues of importance to me, in a way that I believe is most effective, but ultimately I don't place my faith in the political process, or in any particular political ideology. (By this, I cite a lot of the attitudes one found here on FR during the Terri Schiavo case as an example of the failure of political ideology. People, self-identified consevatives, siding with Michael Schiavo, and calling Judge George Greer as a "solid conservative and Republican," in other words, willing to countenance a monsterous evil all in the name of "states rights." We now see hints of self-identified conservatives here on FR willing to allow another monsterous evil -- the Clintons back into the White House, all in the name of some kind of ideological purity. So, the conservative community is in great need of revival as well. )