Reply #40: I disagree. [View All]

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They vote for Democrats in state offices who are "pro-choice," but understand that it's not just about having a choice. It's also about personal responsibility and wise choices.

If I choose to kill someone, I made a choice, but was it a good choice?

Well, same thing. When you have people choosing to terminate a pregnacy, i.e., killing what would become a person, you make a choice, but most people think it's a bad choice, if you do it, "just because you have the right to make that choice."

So, southern Democrats like Mike Easely, or even John Edwards for that matter, who start out any discussion of abortion with the statement, "I would rather that there be as few abortions as possible, but" as John Edwards did in a Town Hall meeting in Portsmouth, NH on July 7, 2003, showing that they understand the other's point of view and somewhat share it, they will never lose an election over the abortion debate because they are not seen as relentlessly "pro-abortion." They know how to come off as pro-choice/responsibility, and they are, and that's what works.