Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Abortion - was Missouri Young Republicans?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> (2) he favors ready access to legal abortion

I have to say that this is really the reason I am voting Republican.  I voted 
for Bush last time, somewhat reluctantly, for this reason.  This time I will 
vote for Bush, much more enthusiastically, for this reason amongst others.

I see this issue as being as vital and important as the slavery issue 150 years 
ago (an issue in which the Republicans also took the "right" side against the 
Democrats).  Indeed it is interesting that such reformers as Susan B. Anthony, 
as well as fighting for the rights of women, were also strongly abolishonist, 
and pro-life, seeing all issues as equally involving the rights of people 
(women, black people, unborn babies respectively).

What really brings home the abortion issue to me is a story I remember a few 
years ago where some kids murdered their baby just after it was born.  There was 
a great sense of outrage around the country as these people were brought to 
justice.  On the other hand, if they had more sense, they could have had a legal 
abortion a few weeks earlier, and no-one apart from a few deomonstrators outside 
the abortion clinic would have been bothered.  I can see no moral difference 
between aborting the baby and waiting until it is born before killing it - yet 
the laws in this country differ very widely.

Stephen
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