Thursday, January 17, 2008

Who Will Show Up On Tuesday?

Today on the Laura Ingraham radio show http://lauraingraham.com, Laura made an excellent observation concerning this Tuesday being the 35th anniversary of the worst decision the United States supreme court ever made. Roe v Wade. That is the dreadful decision that "legalized" abortion in the United States and took it away from the states to regulate this so-called "right".
What Miss Ingraham asked is what Republican presidential candidate would attend the Right to Life march in person?
I am afraid that none will, but all who claim to be pro-life and anti-abortion should, as should President Bush.
Not even the Great Man himself, former President Ronald Reagan, attended a march in person.
But I will take Miss Ingraham's question and further it by saying here and now that Sen. John "F--- You" McCain, former Arkansas governor, the Rev. Mike Huckabee, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Sen. Fred Thompson and President Bush should attend and all should speak.
Yes, the DDBMSM will gasp in horror to see all the major Republican candidates and the sitting Republican president at the seminal event commemorating the 40 million potential Americans aborted since this hideous decision was passed down.
But, that is the point. They should make the DDBMSM gasp and take note that the Republican party is taking the position that Roe v Wade should be overturned. And at the very least abortion laws should be handled by the states and their elected legislators.
Because the supreme court divined a "right to privacy" and federalized abortion laws, it makes having to pursue a constitutional amendment necessary. A future court could come to the same hair-brained conclusion as that court did and re-legalize abortion across the United States, with no regard for the right of states.
It is interesting that just today a report came out that said abortions are at the lowest since 1976.
But even then it is still one too many.
This is an issue on which I think the Republicans need to be cattle-prodded into serious action. Not just platitudes and promises of appointing conservative judges and a conservative supreme court justice or two.
Oh, I did not include one Republican candidate for president. Former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is "pro-choice" and I think that he should show up, speak to the crowd to assure that while he maintains his position, he would appoint the kind of judges and or justices that would look at overturning Roe v Wade. It is threading the needle, but if you want to appoint conservative judges and justices, one of the cases they will hear, eventually, will be a direct challenge to Roe v Wade. And, Mayor Rudy may be in a strange but true kind of way the best friend the pro-life community has.
But I agree with Miss Ingraham's question. But, lets see if any do show up and more so, who would have the guts to speak to the crowd.

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