I almost completely skipped over the recent rant by Steve Fetter on how righteous the abortion decision is. Fortunately, I see he used my name so many times to identify me with the right for the unborn child to survive that I couldn’t miss it. If identifying me and the Republican Party with the right for unborn children to survive was meant to be a slam Steve, please let me be the first to thank you for the endorsement.
Steve does not understand that whether a person is Republican or Democrat tends to be insignificant on this issue. It is indisputable that in Southern Indiana , most Hoosiers are pro-life. I regularly speak with Democrats who call themselves pro-life Democrats. Several of them are now becoming Republicans because they realize that their views on abortion cannot be justified with the stand by people like Steve who insist that the unborn child has no rights….least of which is the right to live.
Thanks Steve for bringing out the most callous argument in support of abortion rights your side has to offer. You say that children should be aborted because they are not wanted. At least you are honest. The statistics show that 99% of the abortions performed in our nation have absolutely nothing to do with any physical or emotional threat to the mother. Simply put, the mother does not want the child. And, our law authorizes unwanted children to be terminated.
Steve argues that a child is better off terminated than being born into a world where they are not wanted. Only so cold an argument could be used to support abortion as a remedy to crowded prison population and child abuse. To suggest that Planned Parenthood should be credited for preventing the need for abortion is totally absurd. Women go to Planned Parenthood for one purpose only: to determine the availability of abortion services. If they are seeking help in dealing with how to keep their baby, they turn to services provided by volunteer organizations like Choices for Women. And Steve, please notice that none of your tax dollars go to their agency. Planned Parenthood cannot say the same.
Actually Steve, I need to thank you for one other thing. Every time you rant about the rights of women to terminate their pregnancies, you reinforce the argument that where you stand politically must agree with where you stand morally. No one can deny the fact that the Democratic Party platform defends abortion rights and Republicans defend the right to life. The line is very clear. Every time you use arguments like the one you used in your article, you convince another Democrat that their Party has left them by choosing the moral low ground on this argument.
As I have said many times before, I welcome those on the pro life side of this argument to come join our Party and vote for Republicans. It isn’t because we think we are morally superior. It is because we believe that it does make a difference what you believe and your politics should align with those views. I don’t expect to see you joining us any time soon Steve.
See the whole stream at www.daveweb1a.com/gop/abortion.html
