Abortion Litmus Test
Posted by Moonage on 02 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Opinions
The 2004 Presidential election yielded a few things. One of which was our current leader for four years. And, it resulted in all fifty states being tagged red or blue, conservative or liberal, etc.. A lot of discussion has centered on the redness or blueness of the US based on that one election. I’ve never really bought into that. Currently, a second phenomena is occurring, we are selecting a new Supreme Court judge. A second peeve of mine is the Roe V Wade Conservative Litmus test. In simpler terms, you can’t be truly Conservative unless you support Roe V Wade. I have never bought into that either. SurveyUSA recently took a poll surveying people’s opinions on Pro-Life v Pro-Choice. They even tallied it by Bush/Kerry states. What it shows is what I’ve felt my whole life. In the last election, thirty-one states went for Bush, nineteen went for Kerry.
However, in their poll, thirty-seven states favored pro-choice, thirteen pro-life.
In other words, a LOT of pro-choice people voted conservative in the last election. Since abortion rights didn’t deter them from voting conservative, OTHER THINGS MUST HAVE BEEN MORE IMPORTANT.
Bottom line? Drop the abortion litmus test. It’s obviously not terribly important to a lot of people. That’s all we hear in the SCOTUS search. There are other issues that obviously trump that issue with a lot of people. Let’s hear about those for a while. OK?
Please?
2 Comments »
on 03 Nov 2005 at 1:19 pm 1.Bryan Kerwick
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The Left has no issue other than abortion. The problem they have is that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, the legislative forces in all States must then make new Law that is the will of the people of those individual States. States Rights is diametrically opposed to the Left agenda and they will stop at nothing to prevent it.
Overturning Roe will not be the end of the world for the ACLU or Planned Parenthood, meerely an inconvenience as they will then have to argue their case before all 50 legislatures instead of 1 Federal Court. There are no States that will abolish abortion. There are many States however that will make Laws that make sense to their citizens, namely requiring parental notification AND consent prior to performing this procedure on MINOR CHILDREN. Married women will be required to advise their husbands prior to having an abortion and several procedures like partial birth abortion will be banned in many States.
Minor children are most likely victims of a crime, primarily statutory rape and spouses that want to keep this dirty little secret from their husbands are likely to have conceived the child in an adulterous relationship. The argument of abusive husbands does not hold water. If that were the case, they should see a divorce lawyer and not Planned Parenthood. Partial birth abortion can only be described as murder. A living breathing child is in the birthing process half way thru the birth canal when they are killed. One can not describe this procedure any other way.
Having said all that, the vast majority of abortions do not fall in these catagories. Well over 90% of all abortions occur within the first tri-mester which no State will outlaw. Those are the facts about what abortion rights activists are trying to stop in Judge Alito and the balance in the Supreme Court.
on 11 Jan 2006 at 9:54 am 2.Moonage Political Webdream
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Schumer grills Alito on free speech and abortion
I read this transcript on PoliticalTeen, who I usually enjoy:SCHUMER: Does the Constitution protect the right to free speech? ALITO: Certainly it does. That’s in the First Amendment. SCHUMER: So why can’t you answer the question of: Does the Constituti…