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Originally posted by: Atreus21
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Atreus21
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: Atreus21
Of that I have no doubt. My concern is: If congress somehow passed a resolution that made abortion a state-decided issue, would you veto it?
I think Obama would, and McCain would not.
So I'm voting for McCain.
How would Congress do this? The only way would be by constitutional amendment, and that already requires a veto-proof supermajority to do so. How would the President even factor in?
Okay, but the congress can pass other pro-choice and/or pro-life legislation.
Whoever is more likely to veto pro-choice legislation gets my vote.
While I am completely ok with your position on this matter despite how I may disagree with you, you really ought to consider that there are so many additional issues that deserve a lot of weight and consideration when it comes to your vote beyond just abortion. Pro-choice/Pro-life decisions are not the backbone which keeps this country afloat. For example, people suffering financially due to the economy means less money to support a child. Those who get knocked up and don't have enough money to deal with the situation will be more prone to getting an abortion.
I see it as a question of priority.
I believe abortion for convenience to be murder. That being the case, we're committing murder, sanctioned by the government, in huge quantities each year. And not just any murder; this is parents killing their children.
If a politician is point-blank telling me that he or she is okay with something so horrifying, I don't care what else they stand for.
If you (the candidate) don't have a problem with raping women, I don't really care to hear about your stance on reducing gas prices. If you don't have a problem with murder, I could care less about how you think we should pull out of Iraq because it's killing our soldiers. What right have you, the candidate who accepts murdering children, to give two cents about soldiers killed in the line of duty?
That's my reasoning. Some issues are more important than others. If a candidate doesn't believe abortion is abhorrent, how can I expect him or her to believe anything to be abhorrent? To me, no issue, here or abroad, is more important than abortion.
That's why, even though I disagreed with his Iraq stance, I would've voted for Ron Paul had he won the nomination.
Yeah, in a weird way I agree with Atreus here. If I had the same beliefs as him, it would be hard to find another topic as important as the killing of thousands of american children every year. As enraged as I am about the Iraq war and all of the corruption and exploitation committed by the gop and even most democrats, it would pale in comparison to how I felt about abortion.
