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To: Eddie01
What’s the problem with being smart enough to know what you can accomplish vs. the ideal?

There is the rub for some folks, they ain't that smart.

Sad too, many babies could be saved if we worked harder on wining the battles we can instead of dreaming about power we don't have. It is easy for me to demand that all of America end abortion today and pass an Amendment by next Tuesday, but other than being laughed at by many, little will come of it.

It's called tactics and a grasp of reality and until all in the fight for life learn that, we will keep losing ground.

7 posted on 11/29/2007 7:53:21 AM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: ejonesie22
Fred is correct on the issue and poor Jill and some others are too stupid to understand the laws and the effect.

The only reason that no young mothers have ever been prosecuted for abortions is because there has never been a Federal law against them.

Pass a Federal law ( which would never get passed) and you will have to assign penalties to the law.

12 posted on 11/29/2007 8:05:57 AM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: ejonesie22

To pass a controversial amendment would require the ardent support of something around 75% of Americans, distributed evenly in a regional sense.

Since there is not even close to a simple majority of Americans who would support an amendment to ban abortions, what is the point of even discussing whether to push for an amendment?

At this point in time, overturning Roe and returning the issue to the states is the best outcome we can reasonably expect, and would besides be a major victory for federalism and a rebuke to activist judges.

This leaves aside the incredible difficulty of really enforcing a law which so many people would oppose.


14 posted on 11/29/2007 8:15:47 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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