Comments on: Is it okay to be a one issue voter when it comes to abortion?

By: Zack

Zack — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:43:24 +0000

Hey didn’t we just have a Republican, who was against abortion, in office for 8 years? I’m not saying that abortion is right. In fact I am very much pro-life. However, just because an anti-abortion president (I say anti-abortion because I can’t call someone who lead our country into a war and supports the death penalty pro-life) is in office doesn’t mean anything will change. The reality is it is now up to the supreme court. And even with a supreme court thats majority have been appointed by Republican presidents won’t touch the issue because it is too controversial. So in the end it is really foolish to vote, one issue, on abortion

By: ashley brazzel

ashley brazzel — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:42:04 +0000

Jason, I guess they were not…..

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:48:55 +0000

Although I think abortion is wrong, I also think it’s a small symptom of a much larger moral problem and mindset – until we learn to respect all life – abortion will be part of the larger problem. Until people quit focusing on abortion as a singular issue all alone it will always be around – go after the root cause people. I also think as a people it’s easier to focus on abortion and tell people what to do and be all morally superior about it, but in the end it accomplishes nothing. Some people really don’t promote change or even progress on this issue- they just want to talk a good game, have an opinion and rub people’s noses in it. I don’t respect that at all. Comparing someone to Hitler or Stalin…stupid. Obama isn’t Hitler, Bush isn’t Hitler…though in a historical context he’s closer than Obama. I could understand using abortion as a single issue vote if it did any good. Did Bush eliminate legal abortion? No. Did he gladly accept your vote anyways? Yes. Great job there people. It’s the attempt to simplify an issue that isn’t simple that makes you fail. Are you smart enough to know what that means?

By: Matthew Hatcher

Matthew Hatcher — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:59:29 +0000

Well to be honest if I wasn’t allowed to vote for anything other than the two current candidates I wouldn’t vote at all. Real change will never occur until enough people vote for the best candidate instead of the least bad candidate. Once percentages get high enough the current parties will no longer be able to ignore those voters. I try to be an optimist not a defeatest.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:15:11 +0000

Well obviously in the end its either McCain or Obama – voting Libertarian is the same as (in my opinion) not voting at all.

By: Matthew Hatcher

Matthew Hatcher — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:26:52 +0000

“This election does not allow us a candidate whom is truly PROLIFE.”

Actually it does. You could vote for the Libertarian candidate Bob Barr or the Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin.

By: ashley brazzel

ashley brazzel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:42:00 +0000

I have something more to say about the Hitler comparison…its illogical.

Ultimately, the choices a person makes in his or her life are the choices that God will judge them on one day. God and God alone can see the intentions of a person’s heart.

Hitler did not simply make a law that made the killing of Jews legal. Instead, he ordered his men to carry out his will on behalf of him. So if the day ever comes that the government orders women to have abortions, only then could you compare abortion to the Holocaust.

For now, its a matter of teaching women right from wrong. Abortion is and always will be an individual matter – a case by case basis where the woman will have to make the RIGHT “choice”.

But seriously, the irony I find in all of this is that most people who go around calling themselves “PROLIFE”, are in fact not. If you support war and the death penalty, then you are not completely prolife.

Oh, and Taylor – thanks bunches for totally ignoring me here in your blog. It actually makes it much more enticing for me to continue posting.

By: ashley brazzel

ashley brazzel — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:58:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing those links, Clint. I found them interesting.

As an off topic side note after reading those links, can anybody here list some basic differences between the beliefs of Episcopalians and the beliefs of Catholics? I know that Catholics pray to Saints, and Episopalians do not. However, to be honest that is about all I know. I know there are several other key differences, correct? What is one’s motivating factors when deciding to switch to the Catholic church?

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:07:43 +0000

Ashley,

Our bishops–shepherds and guardians of our faith–are finally standing up and teaching the flock with the authority that is rightly theirs. See some of the bishops’ statements linked below:

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=29432

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=29320

They address your concern of the war “against” abortion in their statements.

By: ashley brazzel

ashley brazzel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:55:57 +0000

Doug,

I will say it again.

I am prolife. All life is important. Right now I have decided to become a “single issue” voter and vote against the war. Simple as that. I have been forced into a position where I must choose to sacrifice my beliefs either way. I cannot figure out why some have decided to place more value on the lives of the unborn than the lives of the postborn. They are equal.

So we can continue fighting and killing in this world for “100 years” maybe. Or we can take one step at a time. We have been fighting abortion since 1973. We have been fighting a war since 2001.

I have more faith in the possibility of ending the war during the next four years, than I have in the possibilty of ending abortions during the next four years
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