Not necessarily. James Kilpatrick was deeply conservative. As a cub reporter, he once saw "a beautiful young woman only 17. She had died of the agonies of perotinitis." Yes, Mo4, I know you've got no sympathy for women who die in illegal abortions. The fact is that Kilpatrick and many other men who support legal abortion DO sympathize with them. That sympathy, rather than a selfish desire to make women heterosexually "easy" may be the reason they support legal abortion.
So, the Democrats, unable to run on Obama’s economic record, have decided that their big winning issue is abortion.
Speakers like Newark mayor Cory Booker, NARAL Pro Choice America’s Nancy Keenan, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, and everyone’s favorite birth control whineypants Sandra Fluke tell the rest of us that, in essence, “If you don’t support abortion, you don’t love women.”
Ugh.
It is not just the admission of defeat or utter lack of political imagination that this reflects on the part of the Obama administration. Not the blatant deceit. Nor even the diminished value of human life generally. (Because while abortion...
My wife volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center for many years. THAT is sympathy. Loving the women in crisis pregnancies, and offering alternatives and counseling, without sacrificing the life of a child.
And yet look at what a ridiculously small percentage of abortions has any relevance to that "sympathy."