Do you mean to tell me that abortion is still legal?

Question

After 12 years of Republican government control, including 6 years of Bush, do you mean to tell me that the Republicans haven't delivered on their promise to force women to give birth rather than abort? After all that time, doesn't it occur to the antiabortionist that someone has been yanking your chain? Isn't it about time to seek real solutions rather than continue to listen to political preachers tell you to simply enlist the government to force women to behave as you see fit?
Or has it become too difficult for Christians to use persuasion rather than force?

Yeah Matt, but why haven't those Republicans brought any cases before the Supreme Court? Shouldn't that tell you that they either lied or there is no case to be brought?

Cricket, I think there are very few people who believe abortion should be primary birth control. I'll ask you another question.
When the Democrats tried to legalize RU484, the morning after pill, why did the Republicans raise hell and call it the abortion pill? I think both political parties use abortion to their advantage. But the Republicans can actually use it to get people to vote against their own best interest. And they do.

Sane, I don't care if you're insulted or not. I inserted the little Christian bit, because I'm a Christian and I'm tired of the BS.

Jan Stolz, I can't say anything to you except that you have a reading comprehension problem and you just made a fool out of yourself.

Wow, The answers are very interesting and prove that most of you don't bother to read the entire question. What a bunch of idiots!

I agree Kutekymm and Smedrik, Abortion is being used as a smokescreen by the Republicans. They have no intention of implementing any real legislation and the Supreme Court has ruled, rather anyone likes it or not, and precedence has been set. So, if some still believe that it is murder, why aren't they leading the fight for social programs that would make it easier for women to give birth rather than abort?
Apparently they're allowing their political ideology to interfere with real solutions.

Carpe, You are just about the dumbest SOB that I've ever come across on here.
HAHAHA It's one thing to make a fool out of yourself, but you give a whole new meaning to the word.

Answer 1

If they made it illegal, Repubs would lose half of their votes. So many people only vote for them because of the abortion issue.

Answer 2

I'm a Christian. I'm also a realist. If you don't want someone to have an abortion, then you should be prepared to help, finance and give emotional support to the mother for the next 18-20 years. Any Republicans out there willing to say that they would rather see the child brought up on Welfare than dead? No? Then don't tell a woman to have a child she can't devote herself to completely. I would rather see the child alive and adopted into a loving family, but the emotional cost of giving up your baby is almost too much for most women to bear.

If abortion were illegal, as pionted out by other answers, you would force women to break the law and visit the unsavoury and unqualified to terminate their unwanted pregnancies, and you would also have the problem of where would all these babies go? No-one would want to put their child in an orphanage, but for the majority there wouldn't be any other choice. If they could look after the child themselves, they wouldn't consider abortion. Don't forget, we are talking about thousands of little lives. People who would have to be catered for by the state, perhaps? How much money would a Republican be prepared to devote to such an enterprise? Maybe that's something they've already thought about. Much easier to do nothing and say it's too difficult to change the law.

I didn't choose to become a single parent, sometimes even the best laid plans can go wrong, and a partner just leaves. It has been the most heartbreaking and rewarding time of my life, and I thank God every day for my beautiful boys. My Church family have been a solid emotional support, and although we don't have everything we want, we have all we need, thanks to the British taxpayer. If anyone thinks claiming benefits is easy, (like I used to) they are very much mistaken. When the boys are old enough, I'll go back to work.

Answer 3

I have my own personal opinion about abortion. The political issue is one of the Supreme Court overstepping it's authority and actually creating laws instead of interprating them.

Abortion is a States Rights issue. The registered voters of each state should be allowed to decide. That is how it was before the Suprems stuck their nose in and that is how it should be now.

It was not Christians that used force. The issue was removed from states hands by the force of an overstepping out of control Supreme Court. In fact the whole case that the ruling was based on was a fabrication. See below.


.

Answer 4

Yeah, there has been a lot more talk than action. This is why I'm not a Republican.
However, what I've noticed is that every time a Republican tries to pass a bill even restricting abortion (such as a ban on partial-birth abortion), it barely makes it past committee. Why is that?
Besides, most people like myself who are against abortion are realistic about it. We realize it wouldn't make much sense to just illegalize abortion outright. It needs to be restricted, absolutely, but it can't be illegalized until people either stop having sex when they don't want children, or until contraceptives are 100% effective. I don't think either one will ever happen.

Answer 5

Republicans alone can not abolish abortion, it will take the Supreme Court to make a ruling on it. Last I checked, there were no cases on abortion in front of the Supreme Court.

Answer 6

The abortion issue is a smoke screen. It keeps people bickering about a moral issue, not a political issue. It diverts attention, inflames emotion and wins votes.

Abortion will never be outlawed. It is an issue that really diverts out collective attention from the more pertinent issues of the times.

Answer 7

I am a Pro Choice Catholic Isn't this a law passed by the Supreme Court??

Answer 8

I find your insertion of Christianity into this as insulting. It has nothing to do with abortion. The problem was Liberal poltics in the name of obstructionisim. Its typical. Any time a politician get a good idea and comes up with a plan, its stonewalled by the liberal left in one of the houses or tacked onto some worthless bill thats vetoed.

Answer 9

That's some funny stuff right there, a Christian using force..
Did you get that idea out of the first book of hypocrites....

Answer 10

do people really make their voting decisions based on such an issue? why don't they look at something more important like government growth, deficit spending, overtaxation, etc.