Author: jetbrane
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McCain doesn’t want Keyes to lecture him, but he is quite happy to lecture Keyes on proper show of respect.
Plus, he uses the classic distinction between public and private life, but of course, what woman would ever consider her own abortion to be a matter of the public sphere?
And yet people are willing to trade the present hypocritical president for one who will be as hypocritical, if not more so.
I wish McCain would have shut-up long enough to let Bush finish what he was saying… but I think Keyes is right on. Neither one of them can defend their own positions on the issue. McCain’s last sentence about it being a family decision was so telling.
How can anyone call this man prolife??? The whole idea behind “prochoice” is that it is a decision for the mom or the family or the doctor or whomever to make. Being “personally against” abortion DOES NOT make one prolife. It is merely an emotional response and when something else comes along that makes you have a bigger emotional response (rape, incest, my daughter, whatever) then you get exceptions.
But why do such things surprise me? Studies have shown that the vast majority of abortions are done on women who claim to be Evangelical Christians or Roman Catholics and generally believe themselves to be prolife ‘but’.
Of the major candidates, at the moment, I actually believe Obama has the most self-consistent position on abortion. It is absolutely abhorrent but he appears to stick to it without compromise.
I am not convinced the the prolife movement is angry about Obama’s no vote on the Born Alive legislation because they hold to a consistent biblical prolife position, but because the idea of a child being left to suffocate on a roof is more emotionally abhorrent to them than the idea of them flushing their own babies down the toilet in the privacy of their bathroom. Such inconsistencies in our own thinking is the only way to explain why prolifers continue to support the candidacy of those who think it perfectly fine to execute babies for their fathers crimes.
http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/ballot_box/sen_john_mccains_position_on_a.aspx
Pastor,
I’m no expert, but I believe that any person who is against abortion should not be “personally against,” but entirely against it. There should not be such a thing as prochoice.
If the mom didn’t want a baby, then she shouldn’t have done those things in which the outcome is a baby. It is her fault if she decides otherwise half way through her pregnancy.
Is that the right way to look at it?
Yes, you are right Sarah.