Randy, your latest explanation of Kerry’s stance on abortion is still a tad ephemeral. Yes, there is no proof of where life begins. This does go both ways. There’s no proof that an aborted fetus is alive or not…but there’s the chance there is. This is a back and forth of life and death. Make the wrong decision and lives can be at stake. There’s a reason millions of Americans are so fired up about this decision.
I’m an unabashed waffler and haven’t been able to make up my mind and I do believe that my stance on where life begins would make a distinct impression on whether or not I believed abortion was alright, because as I stated, you are believing men and women to be committing murder if you believe life begins at conception. To stand on the sidelines, to not even vote in favor of the partial-birth abortion ban, is incomprehensible in that light.
Randy states that a threat to another person’s well-being has to be proven, has to be real. Randy also claims that these laws are based on measurable data. Well, stop abortion unless in the health risk to the woman and see if birth rates rise to “alive” individuals--that’s my guess. I think I’d call that a “measurable impact”.
Frankly, laws are passed all the time without threats to a person’s well-being being proven. That’s why we have these huge debates between political parties. Two (or more) opposing points of view that can be seen as valid. The list of these hot button issues is long, and I won’t go into it, just go down this blog to see a few. I’m sure Kerry has voted for a law where the measurable impact wasn’t proven, or where a threat wasn’t proven, like say, voting for Bush to have power to go to war with Iraq.
Proof, as any philosopher or mathematician can tell you, is not as strong a branch as we’d like to hold on to. The word is thrown about all the time. That’s why men and women are voted into office to vote as they feel their constituents would desire, as they believe is best for the country. Personal beliefs take center stage in many of these debates. The choice of life versus death should always weigh heavily in one’s votes, and for a person who gets a perfect rating from every pro-choice advocate out there, Kerry’s belief obviously doesn’t.
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