| Let me start off by saying that he is a likeable guy. He seems to be intelligent and genuine (as much as one can tell from watching him on TV and/or reading about him). But I can't vote for him because of his pro-choice stance on abortion. Some people would argue that that would be one-issue voting. I disagree. I would never vote for someone based on one issue. (I would never vote for someone just because he is pro-life.) But I'll NOT vote for someone because of one issue. If there was such a thing as a perfect candidate for the presidency, if he/she did all the right things, said all the right things, had all the right policies, BUT he/she supported genocide, would you vote for him/her? There are many things that a person needs to be to be qualified for the presidency, but there only has to be one thing to disqualify that person, and for me, a pro-choice stance disqualifies any candidate. Would Roe v. Wade be overturned if a pro-life candidate were to be elected? Probably not, but that's not the point. And no, this does not mean I will vote for McCain. I will vote, and I just might abstain. Hey, that rhymes... On a side note, I once overheard a pastor talking about the subject of abortion after someone else brought up the horrible-ness of it, and they said something like, "Even if it were to be made illegal, they'd just use a coat hanger..." That is absolutely ridiculous. There are over a million abortions in the US every year. You expect me to believe that a million women would use a coat hanger on themselves? Even if they did, so what? Why don't we just legalize murder itself then? People are killing each other anyways, right? Let's just legalize everything. Sorry, end of side note.
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Maybe not a million people would but a good chunk of people would. So you're agreeing with me that if abortion were to be made illegal, that would potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives?
Does the government have a right to tell people how to live their lives? Yes, if it protects the life of another. Any civilized society "restricts" the freedom of a person to harm someone else, or has consequences for them. Abortion is not an issue of lifestyle; it is an issue of life itself.
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I don't think I ever said that banning abortion would end it. Of course it wouldn't. And of course some people would find other ways to do it. I was merely pointing out the faulty logic of "being ok" with abortion being legal just because banning it wouldn't stop all of it. Banning stealing sure hasn't stopped theft, but it sure has stopped many potential thefts.
I do agree with you that putting a band-aid over a wound won't make it heal. Laws don't change people's hearts, so "big picture"-wise, I agree with you. But hey, you're potentially saving thousands of lives if you outlaw abortion. I'm cool with that.
Just to be clear, I don't support McCain either.
I don't think the fact that Obama has two daughters is relevant. I'm not talking about his personal choices (although the fact that he has two daughters does not prove that he was never involved in an abortion). I'm talking about his policies. And I know that he does not take this issue casually, as he's done his part in trying to find ways to reduce teen pregnancy, educate people about using contraceptives, etc. But at the end of the day, he is still pro-choice. He still stands on a woman's "right" to make that decision, and I don't believe that she does.
When I speak of abortion, I'm talking about the most common use of the term, which is induced abortion of a human pregnancy. The issue is human life, so if the life inside the pregnant woman has already died, then do whatever procedures you want to do. If a woman's life is in danger, of course you do whatever you can to save her. Life is the issue.
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