John Zmirak concedes that pro-lifers have no business voting for either Hillary or Barack, but points out that overturning Roe v. Wade -- the prospect of which makes many of us vote Republican no matter what -- would do nothing to stop abortion in most of America. A vote for McCain, even if it accomplished Roe's overturning, would be a vote for open borders and the continuance militarism abroad, he says. Here's Zmirak:
As a single-issue pro-life voter, I have to ask if this mild improvement is worth electing a president pledged to waging aggressive wars across the world… the prospect of unisex conscription… the crushing burden of taxes on families required by never-ending war ... the further corruption of what’s left of the conservative movement… the further enrichment of big business at the cost of the native working and middle class…It is morally permissible to vote for McCain? Spend 30 minutes reading the news about Iraq, the cost in American lives, the damage to our military, the cost to our budget--and most of all, the civilian casualty figures. Now apply the same numbers to Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Imagine what other countries might pop up on the radar of the paranoids running the War Party. Think of all those foreign children, too.
In the 2008 election, both parties are pro-death. We really don’t have a vote.
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If I were a NARAL activist, I guess I would start saying that Sen. McCain has plans to invade Timbuktu with 18 year old girls leading the charge and that would convince this guy not to vote Republican?
that overturning Roe v. Wade -- the prospect of which makes many of us vote Republican no matter what -- would do nothing to stop abortion in most of America.
Thats dumb as rocks. Apparently D-Day was a waste of time, because Hitler was still in power even after we secured our beachhold.
If one is truly committed to stopping abortion the way to go about it is by a commitment to caring and loving the born. If I were an American I would do my best to make sure that every child was guaranteed an education, nourishment, health care and respect. You can't serve two Masters, either you stop worshiping wealth power and celebrity or you commit to a culture of individual and group affirmation and acceptance. As long as you divide the world in to us and them your defense of the unborn is as empty as your belief that materialism and Christianity (Judaism or Islam) are compatible. Either life is sacred or it is not. You cannot continue to deny abortion rights and submit millions of your citizens to lives of spiritual and monetary deprivation. If you want to stop abortion give everyone hope and give women of child bearing age security, proper health care and above all love and respect.
NOTE: Obama voted against BAIPA because BAIPA does not clearly state that the term of the pregnancy or the method of delivery. It is legal, under BAIPA, to cut a woman open who was raped and wants an abortion, pull her live fetus out, put it on a machine and declare its "independence" of her.... sending her home a few days later without her child.
This bill was an attempt to bring alive the fascist Handmaid's Tale "dream world" of manufacturing people using technology and compromised women. These NeoNazi's keep getting upset when their 11th adulterous-girlfriend-of-the-month decides to abort their 11th bastard child. But what they don't realize is that *before* abortion, women would just toss unwanted kids into a creek (and in third world countries they still do). Women have the power of life an death over their children, and if men treat them like crap, they will pass on that treatment to their children. This is part of sexual antagonism and evolution.
Try to play God and take this power away from women.... I dare you.
First of all, your title is incorrect. McCain is courageously 99% Pro Life, and has been for 24 years, without a constituency of support - that is, its easy for "wear-it-on-your sleeve" evangelicals to be Pro-Life because they are happily esconced solely within their movement. But McCain has been Pro Life, when other centrists and moderates are either Pro Choice or won't commit. Only in the case of incest, rape, or the life of the mother is imperilled, does McCain, understandably, soften his no abortion stance. As far as Stem cell research is concerned, it was allowed in the case of cells already conceived and destined to be destroyed. If informed by science they aren't necessary, then he said he would not permit it. So what's the problem?
Secondly, this writer's reason is still messed up on the war front. He doesn't apparently realise the cost of premature withdrawal. To have a better society in Iraq you need Law and Order. How does withdrawal help to establish Law and Order? The surge brought a taste of Law and Order for the first time for Iraqis to enjoy the hope of democracy. It is not "Christian" to then deprive them of this hope. When we are getting closer to the painstaking build-up of the Iraqi security and military forces, then it is ethically incumbent upon us to fulfill the hopes of these people we elected to help, yes, at great cost to all involved. So you stick with the goal of beefening up their ability to defend themselves, and then with time, you can let them do so more and more without the prospecty of genocide and massacre.
Last, the writer generalizes Americans in a "paranoid War Party" of his own devices, not admitting the truth that profound disagreement has occurred between the realist school (ie scowcroft, baker etc) and the neocon school (perle, wolfowitz). That McCain has suffered alot from the most rabid neocons is proof that he is substantially a moderate and centrist realist in outlook. Christians, instead of labelling him because it makes them feel ethically or morally superior, should hope instead that because McCain has suffered at the hands of the very ones the writer labels, then he is probably an acceptable recipient of their support until he proved otherwise.
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