Pro-Life, Pro-Kerry, Part 3
Anyone who is sincerely pro-life may be inclined to vote for Bush on that issue alone. But when it comes to abortion, Bush has provided mostly words, and not many of them. His policy against embryonic stem-cell research deals only with federal funding--and doesn't prevent privately funded laboratories from destroying human embryos for scientific research.The right-to-life movement's support of Bush rests mainly on the hope that he will appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe vs. Wade. But a reversal of that decision is unlikely no matter whom he picks--and I doubt Bush really wants it overturned, lest Republicans pay a political price.
The only realistic way to combat abortion is to work ceaselessly over time to change attitudes about it. Bush, in his cowardly refusal to exercise leadership on the issue, has done nothing to change attitudes.
- Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
... nice to see others get it.
Comments
Ah, yes, because on that issue, it's preferable to have a man who says he's personally opposed to the practice BUT also says he won't bother to push those beliefs as a public servant.
Nice to see what it entails to "get it" in the Wythe world.
Still, it's Dems who have been screaming forever that this President is a threat to their precious "reproductive rights." Not as much a threat as a pro-lifer might hope, but I don't think your fellow partisans are all wrong.
But if I were among the handful of pro-life Dems, I guess I'd also be trying to spin my support of a man who says he agrees with me but the issue has no place in public life. Otherwise, my brain might explode. :-)
Posted by: kevin whited | October 26, 2004 07:59 AM
Funny, my brain might explode if I were to try and justify 24 years of complete, abject failure to accomplish a policy that allegedly is supported by members who control the entire executive, legislative and judicial realms ... who are only willing to spin the issue for elections, but too cowardly to enact something that might earn a revolt at the ballot box.
I guess I just don't "get" such "principled" "logic" that exists only in Kev-land.
Posted by: Greg Wythe | October 26, 2004 02:14 PM
For the record, Kevin, I don't think it's at all inconsistent to have a personal belief on a particular issue but to believe that those personal beliefs need not impel action that, via legislation, might impose those beliefs on others.
Posted by: TP | October 26, 2004 04:01 PM