tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post1110040493327817694..comments2023-10-05T09:42:27.834-07:00Comments on Pamela Mordecai @ Jahworld: How can a pro-life person vote for Barack Obama?clarabellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-54618069788489993462008-10-31T11:48:00.000-07:002008-10-31T11:48:00.000-07:00I was just reading that Chuck Hagel article last n...I was just reading that Chuck Hagel article last night actually. quite interesting.<BR/><BR/>I've always thought that political ideologies as they stand right now with the parties left, centre, right dont really accurately fit all my beliefs. I'm probably a bit to the right on many moral issues and a bit to the left on most economic and social issues. so in voting no one candidate or party really represents my stance as an individual. so all that to say I agree that you cant just choose one issue to vote on, you have to look at the overall party platform and in this case which candidate will be best for the situation facing the country. <BR/><BR/>I still dont understand the no tolerance on abortion as well. I mean if someone is assaulted do you really want them to bring a child into this world that they in some likelihood will despise?Jdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-30423709446300519132008-10-31T06:26:00.000-07:002008-10-31T06:26:00.000-07:00Pam, that's a very decent argument ('decent' in th...Pam, that's a very decent argument ('decent' in the sense of 'morally fair and humane'). You should take note that Senator Biden is, like yourself, a cradle Catholic. He is, though, pro-choice (as are many American Catholics).<BR/><BR/>I am, as you might expect, pro-choice. I have great difficulty with such issues as ectopic pregnancy (not to mention issues like rape, incest, and the mental and physical health of the mother), not to mention young teenagers getting pregnant because of their own stupidity, enthusiasm, or mistaking physical desire for love.<BR/><BR/>When Senator McCain made "air quotes" around "woman's health" he put himself outside the moral pale on the subject as far as I was concerned. Callous indifference to life -- in the name of life! -- is not moral, it is criminal, and it should be stigmatised as criminal.<BR/><BR/>I am also -- unlike the Roman Catholic Church -- in favour of the use of contraceptives, and aware that they can fail. I want every child born to be born into a family that loves him or her, that wants him or her, and to have the opportunity to grow into a world where s/he can thrive. That means rejecting the kind of prudishness and compulsion that masquerades as love, and the "respect for life" that stops at birth and objects to the provision of adequate health care for all as "socialism" (and since when did "socialism" become a swear-word?).FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.com