It wasn’t too many years ago that I was a rape/incest/life of mother type of “pro-life” person. I wasn’t really concerned so much with life of mother or with incest, but with rape. I was particularly concerned with victims of brutal violent rape. Wagglebee might remember our arguments.
Why did I change?
Time was part of it. Faith in God was part of it. And thinking about alternatives to abortion was part of it.
I now believe in helping those women deliver those children at the safest most early moment possible, adopting out those babies, and not performing hideous, intra-uterine dissections of human beings.
How long did it take me to grow into that? Years maybe. Frankly, abortion wasn’t really a discussion during my early life in the early 60’s. About the end of the 60’s and early 70’s is when it became a more public discussion. I was probably neutral to pro-abortion until my late 20’s. Then I went rape/incest/life of mother and stayed that way for a long time....all the way to Free Republic.
So, I had some 3 decades to grow out of it, and the good counsel on these pages of some solid Christians and conservatives.
So, for Trump to say he’s pro-life on a position that he didn’t even begin to accept until his conversion to it in 2011 is a lot different than Bush or Christie who have claimed to be pro-life for decades now. So, when Bush says “sweet spot” it makes me shudder, because I know he’s talking about political expediency.
I’m willing to give people time to grow. I did for Romney, and he kept betraying what he said he had come to see, so I backed off of him.
Thank you, xzins. I’m sure it wasn’t easy to post that, but I am also sure that it will touch some hearts.