Republican platform on abortion

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 9:47am

This year, the Republican platform goes well beyond overturning Roe v Wade. Their intent is to extend 14th Amendment protections to the unborn. This raises abortion to murder, and anyone paying for an abortion would be committing murder-for-hire, a capital crime. McCain and Palin should be pressed on the implications. Here is the language:

"We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children,"

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 9:58am

It's seems as though the Republican States talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

http://www.publicchristian.com/index.php?p=734

RED-STATE / BLUE-STATE ABORTION RATES COMPARED:

All but one of the ten states with the LOWEST rates of abortion are considered “LIBERAL” :

Liberal 1 Massachusetts 2.4
Liberal 2 Connecticut 2.8
Liberal 3 New Jersey 3.0
Liberal 4 Rhode Island 3.2
Liberal 5 New York 3.3
Liberal 6 Pennsylvania 3.3
Liberal 7 Wisconsin 3.4
Conservative 8 North Dakota 3.4
Liberal 9 Maryland 3.5
Liberal 10 Minnesota 3.6

All but one of the Sixteen states with the HIGHEST rates of abortion are considered “CONSERVATIVE” :

Conservative 35 Texas 5.4
Conservative 36 Alaska 5.5
Liberal 37 Washington 5.6
Conservative 38 Mississippi 5.7
Conservative 39 Kentucky 5.8
Conservative 40 Arizona 5.8
Conservative 41 Florida 5.9
Conservative 42 New Mexico 6.0
Conservative 43 Idaho 6.2
Conservative 44 Alabama 6.2
Conservative 45 Indiana 6.6
Conservative 46 Wyoming 6.5
Conservative 47 Tennessee 6.6
Conservative 48 Oklahoma 6.7
Conservative 49 Arkansas 7.1
Conservative 50 Nevada 9.0

[Compiled from Center for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics; and Election Results from CNN.]

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:03am

This is probably a good time to mention that Sarah Palin is against sex education in schools, and favors abstinence-only information.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:05am

"Sarah Palin is against sex education in schools, and favors abstinence-only information."

So imagine how she would look if her 16 year old daughter got pregnant. People like Sarah are in ONLY for themselves and no one else.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:59am

Palin On Abortion: "I'd Oppose Even If My Own Daughter Was Raped"

What a nice mother.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-on-abortion-id-oppo_n_122924.html

I could be wrong, but didn't a house fall on Sarah's sister?

Updated On: 9/1/08 at 10:59 AM

[nygrl23]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 11:09am

Nothing makes the human race all dark agey than this insistence on politicizing issues that aren't political.

Sarah Palin is a pawn. I'm sick of this whole moneyed cluelessness posing as a democratic government.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 11:41am

Wow.

Just, wow. Unbelievable.

[violet72]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:27pm

so basically we would go back to women going to back alleys and using coat hangers and dying or contracting diseases and setting us back 30 years...awesome...seriously what century are these people living in?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:37pm

V72, in many states such as Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas access to abortion is almost non-existent. There are few doctors and few clinics that provide any services. Young women have to drive hundreds of miles and are subjected to protesters. In Kansas the state has sought personal and private information re: women who have had abortions.

The religious right has destroyed a women's right of choice on the ground in various states.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:39pm

No doubt in my mind if McCain and the Prom Queen get in, Abortion will be their first priority.

[javero]

Posted: 9/2/08 at 9:18am

And opening up ANWR for drilling will be their 2nd, not that I'm opposed to it.

I just want ANWR opened to lessen our dependence on foreign fossil fuel while we supplant the current power infrastructure with renewal energy technology. Palin will demonstrate to McCain how she can fund his 100-year war on terror with oil from ANWR and that is what troubles me about the team.