John McCain is far from being moderate concerning the issue of abortion. As a matter of fact, he is a hardline conservative on this issue, reports CBS News.
A lot of moderates who like McCain seem to be averting their gaze from this and trying to persuade themselves that it’s all just politics and the real McCain is a lot like them: not a big fan of abortion, maybe, but not really extreme about it either. Unfortunately, it ain’t so. If McCain gets into office, his record is pretty clear: he’ll do everything he can to reduce or eliminate access to abortion…
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June 11, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Zachary
No ‘conservative’ politician will ever do anything about it.
There’s not much that he could do even if he wanted to do something. He could get the congress to vote that the Supreme Court doesn’t have jurisdiction over a particular area (but that will never happen) or he could get the Supreme Court to reverse itself, but that will never happen with ‘conservative’ presidents like Bush appointing judges who accept Roe as settled law. And he expects us to think that his nominees are strict constructionists.
June 11, 2008 at 2:12 pm
johnaaronmartin
While I hate abortion, I don’t personally think Roe vs. Wade will ever be completely reversed, so I don’t have any naive ideological notions that McCain is going to win the war being waged against the unborn. However, I’d like to see people in office, and especially those appointed to the Supreme Court, who could help keep us from falling further down the slippery slope of death (i.e., ban on partial-birth abortion). In one sense it doesn’t matter when an infant is aborted; it is still murder. At the same time, the farther along we allow abortions during gestation, the greater the implications on society’s view of personhood, which will eventually have profound implications on how we view other individuals within society who are marginalized and ignored because they cannot make significant contributions to society (i.e., euthanasia)
June 11, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Zachary
I agree. I think the issue of abortion is just another facet of an underlying problem within our society.
Our society has accepted what Ludwig von Mises called the principle of aggression. That is, it seems that many in our society think that it’s acceptable to initiate aggression against others as long as it serves some collective interest of the government or some group lobbying the government.
We see this in abortion, taxation, gov’t welfare programs, the ceaseless wars perpetrated by nearly all of our presidents, and oppressive laws that the gov’t passes in order to “protect” us or make us better people.
In fact, abortion is one of the many things that make me laugh when people try to make the argument that the government must exist in order to restrain man from wickedness. Gov’t perpetrated and Gov’t sponsored evil (like abortion) far outstrips anything evil an individual has been able to do. All the greatest evils are gov’t sponsored or gov’t perpetrated.