Generally, I am pro-choice- my choice is that I will never support it- but I also choose to let others make their own decision and to live with themselves. However, it is illustrative that the ‘party of choice’ really isn’t:
Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., promised to bring up the abortion issue if he finds himself debating President Bush next year.
“I’ll tell him, ‘There’s a fundamental difference between he and I (sic; it’s been a long time since Kerry’s prep school grammar classes): I trust women to make their own decisions. You don’t,” Kerry said. Fine words. But it looks like the only decision John Kerry trusts women to make is the decision to have or not have an abortion.
He doesn’t trust a woman to make the decision to invest her Social Security taxes in private accounts that would provide her a more comfortable retirement. He doesn’t trust a woman to own a gun. He doesn’t trust a woman to make her own decision on where her children will go to school.
The truth hurts. I’d vote for this party:
Too many people these days think “choice” only refers to abortion. I’d like to hear a presidential candidate say, “I believe in a woman’s right to choose. I believe in a woman’s right to choose whether to have a child. I believe in a woman’s right to choose any job someone will hire her for. I believe in a woman’s right to choose to own a gun. I believe in a woman’s right to choose the school she thinks is best for her child, public or private. I believe in a woman’s right to choose what kinds of art she will spend her money on, even if she prefers Madonna or Randy Travis and Congress wants to give her money to Robert Mapplethorpe or Luciano Pavarotti. I believe in a woman’s right to choose to drive a cab, even if she doesn’t have a license. I believe in a woman’s right to choose the employees she wants for her business, even if they don’t fit some government quota. I believe in a woman’s right to choose the drugs she prefers for recreation, whether she chooses Coors or cocaine. I believe in a woman’s right to choose how to spend all of her hard-earned money, without giving half of it to the government.”
Whether or not you support the right to choose abortion, surely that is a more difficult issue, involving more lives and more complexities than the right to choose a school for your child, to use marijuana, or to own a gun. And yet many of the supporters of “a woman’s right to choose” don’t support a woman’s right to make those choices.
annie
I see you are a resident of
Planet Often Wrong Never In Doubt
I rather doubt we would see
reproductive rights in jeopardy or
senseless marijuana prosecutions under any Democrat..
you must be very flexible otherwise how could you get your head up there like that
annie
I just read the post which follows so I would like to add
on this subject you should
just shut the f— up.
John Cole
Snicker. That is quite a concession- marijuana and abortions.
annie
LOL Other things we wouldn’t have to worry about
the rolling back of a variety of enironmental standards or
the undermining of public schools
or every looney tune having gun
the list of how life would be better is long..
as I said you must be very flexible….
Ted Barlow
Hold on. “He doesn’t trust a woman to own a gun.” Where did that come from? Did John Kerry propose a “no-guns for women” law? A “no private gun ownership” law? No, he hasn’t done anything of the sort. The other examples are (in my opinion) fairly comical examples of spin, but I can at least understand where they’re coming from. The gun thing is just a ludicrous charge.
I wouldn’t mind so much if every damn Democrat wasn’t tarred with “they want to take your guns away!” When I went to a gun show, I bought a souveneir fake dollar bill with Gore’s face on it; plastered all over it were messages about how he wanted to repeal the Second Amendment and so forth. It’s ridiculous.