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Sir Jeffrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 04:52 PM
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19. I don't think Roe is a problem...
The problem is that so many good-intentioned people are being led like lemmings based on the fact that:

1. It is a "silent genocide" of abortion, etc. and
2. It is consistently open for discussion, as if we have no inherent right to privacy, which is the fundamental basis for all of our personal freedoms.

Average people have trouble wrapping their minds around number 2, since it is an abstract legal principle that appears to have little bearing on abortion. You can't really convince people to change their minds if they believe number 1. That is why I am so excited by this. It adds number three: We had our chance to end roe and we didn't...and we can't blame anyone else for it.

Re-read what I wrote and it should become clear that I am presenting the issue as a "lemming" would see it. The republican party says X is a problem. We will fix X unlike the godless punk democrats. Then it became "we can't fix 'x' because we don't control this branch of govt." Now they control all three branches and have a chance to fix THEIR PERCEIVED PROBLEM, and they don't.

See my point?
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