What Rick Warren Should Ask Obama & McCain On Abortion (Guest Post by Eric McFadden)
Monday August 4, 2008
Categories: Election '08
On August 16th, Saddleback Church is sponsoring Senators Obama and McCain for their first joint event of the campaign, the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion. Some on the far right have expressed concern that the Pastor of...
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Sounds good to me. Abortion reduction should appeal to both pro-life and pro-choice people. Unfortunately, Bushco is attacking conception right now and promoting flawed abstinence only programs, moves that would probably end up INCREASING the rate of unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
This is a refreshing look at the issue.
I am not sure McCain would know how to respond if the conversation was about the cause of abortion rather than appointing judges and disregarding women and their children. Didn't he vote against SCHIP?
I read your post, and I agree whole heartedly we need to do anything we can to reduce or eliminate the need for abortion.
I also believe that as a society we should also do everything we can to reduce or eliminate the act of murder in the US. Far too many people succumb to murder in this country.
Oh yeah, murder is against the law. Such dogmatic laws really have no place in our liberal society. Let us therefore work to repeal the laws against murder.
Please don't use faith as part of your professed doctrine. You may be fooling some people, but God will not be fooled.
Larry,
The abortion rates are roughly the same now as they were prior to Roe v. Wade, do you actually think that criminalizing abortion will end it? Shouldn't we look at the symptomatic reasons why women choose abortion? Your strategy of trying to criminalize abortion has not worked for over 30 years; it is time to rethink this issue. Mr. McFadden presents a goal that is realistic and meaningful and does not represent political posturing.
Yes, this is a fresh approach. We should apply this approach to slavery. Why should people who need housework done be prohibited from owning a slave? Let's lift the prohibitions and apply Eric's "fresh approach". America is a free country and women who work full time should be free to own slaves.
I would ask each candidate what they are doing to promote adoption. If we don't want young women to abort, then we need to find an alternative. We have a lot of couples in America who spend billions of dollars because they are having a hard time conceiving a child.
Why not use adoption to help deal with both problems? Instead of pro-choice or pro-life, let's be pro-adoption and bring both sides together.
If I had only one question for both of these candidates, I would ask for something that would have permanent resolution and not just answered to win votes.
I would ask...
In this life we live in, there is consequences for actions, whether good or bad. So why is our government officials who are supposed to have been elected to serve the American People constantly LIE and MISLEAD, Steal and creat wars yet NO ONE IS TO BE CLAIMED RESPONSIBLE? If it was a department, then make the department heads responsible, if it is the whole group, then make them all criminals and make them pay for what we are now having to deal with.
What can we expect from either one of you to create ACCOUNTABILITY in our government?
Maybe, one can promise that if while in office we can hold them accountable for their actions and can be held against the U.S. Law without mattering their title we have given them.
what does it say of a society that does not protect the most vulnerable and innocent? every time i've conceived, the doctor never said "look at that apple!" or "look at that cat!" it's always human, at its weakest, at its earliest stages. i'm not surprised at the violence in this country,the murders, capital punishment, and all the wars we end up being involved in. since we legally protect the destruction of our youngest members, the rest seems a domino effect...such an anti-mother anti-child society (on many different levels) will eventually unravel.
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