Believe it or not, there was a time I would have voted for McCain, and had he gotten the nomination instead of Bush I would have voted for him rather than the Gore/Lieberman ticket. But after Bush and his cronies squashed his run at the nomination using smear tactics like suggesting his time as POW had unhinged him, he just... caved to the party line.
The current John McCain is not the man who admitted in an interview that he would support any daughter of his in her choice if she chose abortion.
This post is about ONE subject. Abortion. And you're right. I don't have a whole lot of patience for people who refuse to see that women are people and not just incubators (and the Left does not escape this tarring, believe me. Don't get me started on"pre-pregnant").
I do not knee-jerk against everything that "carries a conservative label," but in this case we DO know what happens when abortion is illegal, particularly when you also hinder access to contraception: Women die.
Knowing that, how can you view moves to make abortion illegal as anything BUT trying to punish/hurt women, particularly when there is an active attempt to limit access birth control at the same time?
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Date: 2010-03-24 10:52 pm (UTC)The current John McCain is not the man who admitted in an interview that he would support any daughter of his in her choice if she chose abortion.
This post is about ONE subject. Abortion. And you're right. I don't have a whole lot of patience for people who refuse to see that women are people and not just incubators (and the Left does not escape this tarring, believe me. Don't get me started on"pre-pregnant").
I do not knee-jerk against everything that "carries a conservative label," but in this case we DO know what happens when abortion is illegal, particularly when you also hinder access to contraception: Women die.
Knowing that, how can you view moves to make abortion illegal as anything BUT trying to punish/hurt women, particularly when there is an active attempt to limit access birth control at the same time?