The Silent Issue

Why isn't someone stating the ooooh soooo obvious, that since 1973 when the decsion on Roe vs. Wade was made during Nixon's (a republican) presidency that there have been a total of 5 Republican Presidents including Ford, Reagan (2 terms), Bush Senior and Bush Junior (2 terms) that not one has done anything to change the laws pertaining to abortion and yet christians use this as their number one reason for voting the conservative republican ticket? Republicans have held the presidency for 25 out of the last 35 years of abortions legalization and yet NOTHING has changed! I have seen much more killing under those same Republican presidents however, under the name of war. I vote my consience and it says that I'm for my country, the poor (not corporations), the enironment and I'm AGAINST war! Since Republican Presidents haven't done anything about Roe vs. Wade, the rest of their policies make it EASY for me to CHOOSE........Pro life Christian DEMOCRAT woman

Palin wants to say she didn't have an abortion but fails to state that she did have amnio until her 7 month of pregnancy (way to late to have one) but goes on to state that even if her daughter had been raped, she would not have allowed her to have an abortion. She herself came into office as the Governor of Alaska and made her own "WOMEN" citizens pay for their own rape kits until it was overturned. What is she, some kind of nut job? Who is she to tell any woman what they can and cannot do with their own bodies? Isn't that exactly what all the republicans are accusing Obama of by socialism? Taking away our right to make our own decisions? What's the damn difference.

Obama's plan for jobs on Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other coal producting states, and Obama's plan for dealing with the high cost of energy, including electricity generation.

An audiotape of an interview Barack Obama did in January 2008 with The San Francisco Chronicle has surfaced in the final days of the presidential campaign. On the tape Obama tells the interviewer how he will use environmenal laws to kill the Coal industry,

"so if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can ... It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

Also says he's policy will cause price of electricity to skyrocket.

Now, why would Obama say that in San Francisco and not Pennsylvania? We've seen him do that before, right? Something about guns and religion.

And why did Newsweek take their story on the Pennsylvania campaign down Sunday after this story broke?

The way I see it, the Republicans are NOT really trying to get rid of legal abortion...they just pay lip service. Even a conservative Supreme Court, Republican president, and a Republican majority in Congress for years (until 2 years ago) didn't try very hard to overthrow legalized abortion. **************************** Why not vote for all the OTHER issues facing our country? *************** Maybe it is just me, but I do not see either party wanting to make abortion illegal...maybe because Americans may be anti-abortion...but still want to choose for themselves.... You just never know what will happen to you and your loved ones.... ********** Peace people.

Dear Proud,
Aren't you part of the "WE" people you are talking about? What do you do to help those others you speak about. My conscience is clear in regards to helping those less fortunate than I am. Or do you leave it to others? I have no argument with a woman having the choice over what she does with her body.
I only ask that she be given informed counseling as to what alternatives there are other than abortion, and not to use abortion as a birth control tool.

"Raised with it." Yes, I admit---we were all brainwashed from birth, were perpetually barraged with images of pre-born babies, accompanied by chants of "This a human being, This is a human being, This is a human being."

Abortion is an issue to be fixed by the people, the courts and the legal system. If you want to change something than go and petition. It should not be the Presidents responsibility to tell us where to stand on this issue. It is our responsibility to do that. Obviously public opinion has dictated that we are still a predominately pro-choice country.

I was impressed and surprised to see such an even-handed article on this topic in Newsweek, until I came to the first paragraph past the break. Abortion opponents are not "divisive" or "mean-hearted". I believe passionately that abortion is a grave civil wrong, on a par with slavery. I would love nothing more than to have everyone agree with me, but holding my position is no more divisive than an abortion supporter holding their position. Moreover, I fail to see how it is "mean-hearted" to preserve the life of a child from those who suppose, for their own reasons, that the child is better off dead. If you want "mean-hearted", look rather to the abuse of Gov. Palin for the brave decisions reflected in her own family.

By the way, the notion offered by Prof. Kmiec and other commenters that the Republicans have had their chance and are merely milking the issue denies constitutional reality. The bitter fruit of Justice Blackmun's extra-legal excursion in Roe v. Wade has both narrowly limited the legislative alternatives and guaranteed that any legislative effort will be subject to years of legal challenge. Unfortunately, no such impediment exists to the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act" guaranteeing abortion on demand and to funding the UNPA, subsidizing China's one child policy. We'll see what Prof. Kmiec says when President Obama appoves these measures.