The truth is I feel that we to often have let this issue be hijacked and become little more then a guilt trip to try and get people to vote a certain way, at best we have let it become a wedge between brothers and sisters that makes us argue, fight, and treat each other in a not so Christ-like manor. So why do we do this??
It has been over 35 years since the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down. If we include Nixon who was in office at the time, we have had 7 different Presidents since then. 5 Republicans, and 2 Democrats, and Republicans have been the majority in the house and senate more then half of those 35 years. This is an issue that nearly every Republican candidate(Pres. or otherwise) I can remember has used as part of his or her campaign, and yet, I am left asking, what has changed??
I am anti-abortion, I wish that we lived in a world where this didn't happen, but the reality is we do, and changing a law won't change that. My own son was nearly aborted, but by the grace of God someone talked to his BM and gave her an option. Now, I'm not naive enough to think that adoption alone will stop abortions, much like I am not naive enough to believe that making abortion against the law will stop it. After all the law doesn't seem to keep me from going 70 in a 65, and I'd guess your experience with the law is similar. Honestly, I wish I knew some way to make it stop, but I don't, nor have I ever heard or seen a realistic idea from anyone else. But what's more troubling to me then that, is that we allow this issue to be used by people who don't know either.
What I do know is that electing a Republican or anyone for that matter is going to stop it, history has already proven that. One thing we can and I think we should do is stop letting this moral issue be hijacked by politicians, and used to divide us. Maybe then we can actually get somewhere on the issue.
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I really agree with your perspective on this. I think that it is a complex issue, as much as many Rep. try to make it black and white. For instance, many people have (at least that I've talked to) this idea that women who seek late term abortions just decide at the last minute that they don't want a baby and therefore choose to kill their baby rather than give birth.
Many times there are medical reasons for a late term abortion, including fatal health issues of the child. I know a woman who was told late in her pregnancy that her baby had a fatal chromosomal disease and would not survive outside the womb. She chose to abort rather than continue to carry a child that would die. I think that should have been her choice, not chosen for her.
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