I am against abortion, but I am also against laws that forbid abortion. This is a very personal issue and it gets people on both sides heated. I think the best way to end abortion is to change people's hearts. Screaming that someone is a murderer because they had an abortion is very counter-productive.
In Utah where most people share Romney's personal disdain for abortion, the residents enjoy the lowest per capita number of abortions in the United States. Legally they residents of Utah can get an abortion but they choose not to because they believe it is morally wrong.
To me this is being a true conservative; to freely choose to behave in a moral fashion. Liberals pass laws to force people into certain behavior under threat of prison.
Are you also against laws forbidding other types of murder?
I’m with you. I’m pro-life, and I can make the argument why everybody should be very well. On the occasions that it is brought up, I choose to approach it from the constitutional perspective (states rights, keep your federal laws off my body, if you’re making federal laws about abortion, what might be next - down with state taxes, state marriage laws, state business laws? .....). But I have no trouble whatsoever going at it from a logic perspective (nobody can answer when a foetus becomes a baby, then trace back to embryoes on down) or the moral perspective either.
Having said all that, we pride ourselves on being a nation of the rule of law. If there is a law, we must uphold it until such time as when that law is overturned. My wish is that some Governor challenge Roe v. Wade on the states-rights perspective. If it goes down, I will applaud with everyone else and look forward to states passing their own laws. We know so much more now about embryonic and fetal development than we ever did before. The same also goes for contraception. Only stupid women get pregnant against their will (yes, please flame away). So, although I’m generally schmaltz-sensitive, on this, I completely support your position. The best way to change this murderous outrage is to change people’s hearts. We’re not in the ‘60s. We expect everything to have come a long way. It has. There are better pills, barrier methods. I see an ad. for Mirena all the time. They don’t even refer to it as an intra-uterine device, but as an IUC. Women were using abortion as a birth control method. We can’t have this archaic law still in place when the sciences of photography and birth control have come so far in 40+ years.
You said it very well. Liberals pass laws to force people into certain behaviors under threat of incarceration. I understand Romney upholding the law and opposing abortion - as I do.