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Which Party is Extreme on Abortion? They Both Are

jagapat Wrote: Aug 28, 2012 9:14 AM

I guess I'm an extremist, Jeff. At this stage of the game, a pro-life platform is the only reason I'm still a republican. If they lose that, they lose me. I'm really disappointed in this article. I usually agree with you. I can't believe that you could take such a relativistic view of abortion. It's either objectively moral or it isn't. As in the case of any type of killing, there may be mitigating circumstances which lessens the perpetrators guilt, but it is still an evil (yes, there's my extreme religious bent showing) that the child suffers. It is the first right in the Declaration for a reason. If you are denied the right to life, you are denied all the other ones that follow it.

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Which Party is Extreme on Abortion? They Both Are

When it comes to abortion, which political party's views are more extreme?

Unless you've spent the past week as a stowaway on NASA's new Mars rover, the approved media answer is obvious: Republicans are the abortion fanatics. Between the furor over Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" gaffe and the GOP platform language calling for a constitutional amendment to undo Roe v. Wade, the Republicans have revealed themselves to be -- so The New York Times editorialized on Wednesday -- "on the most extreme fringes of American opinion."

The platform's silence on any exemptions for rape or incest, which critics swiftly dubbed...

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