What abortion question would you ask?
Americans United for Life has written an open letter to CBS News’ Bob Schieffer, who is moderating tonight’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. AUL is calling on Schieffer to address an important topic ignored in both previous debates: abortion.
To that end, AUL has submitted excellent questions for Schieffer’s consideration:
While each candidate’s position on Roe v. Wade is well known, it remains unknown what restrictions on abortion each candidate would support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing abortion. And that is the question I encourage you to ask: What restrictions on abortion would you support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing the number of abortions in our country?
Possible follow up questions include:A recent study by Dr. Michael New (University of Alabama) found that parental involvement laws reduce abortion by 13-31%. Do you support the right of parents to be involved in the medical decisions of their minor daughters when abortion is being considered? Do you support taxpayer funding for elective abortions? Do you support laws that mandate abortion clinics meet minimum health and safety standards commonly applied to other types of medical practices? Do you support laws requiring abortions be performed by licensed physicians?
What questions would you ask?
I would ask:
Do you support laws allowing a doctor who has aborted a baby to be the only practitioner assessing that baby for viability if s/he survives?
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I would like to know the candidates views on euthanasia. As a follow-up: what if the international ‘human-culling’ (by Codex Alimentarius Commission) very soon takes place, where will the US be?
I doubt Schieffer would ask a question on abortion, but I wish he would ask the one suggested, so Obama could clear up any doubt that might exist due to a year-long campaign of lies and smears about supporting “infanticide”
His position is clearly set forth on his website.
Obama’s vote on BAIPA clearly depicts Obama’s robust endorsement for infanticide. I suspect he wants to call it something else.
i pray that Scheiffer gives this article serious consideration!
Do you think parents should have the right to prevent their daughters from having abortions? Do you think they should be able to force them to abort?
I would definitely ask each candidate for a substantive, thoroughly detailed action plan to comprehensively respect and support every woman’s human right to make nonviolent (voluntary, nonabortion, abortion-reducing) sexual and reproductive choices (the focus of the Nonviolent Choice Directory and Blog, to which I contribute).
Unless women have this right firmly within their grasp, then the root causes of abortion, the institutionalized social problems that make it so much more frequent in the US than just about anywhere else, will remain in place. And women in crisis pregnancies will be mistreated and disempowered no matter who the law does or doesn’t say about abortion.
Wichita Linewoman,
No to both. I think parents should know though, so they can, I don’t know, at least TALK about it with their teen. So many extenuating circumstances. Maybe like me, the teen wants to abort because they think their parents would kick them out, which I was SURE OF (even though I had already decided to keep my baby). It turns out, my parents invited me back home from college to live with them. No kicking me out. It’s funny what can happen when one trusts the people who brought them into the world.
PPC
So which story version should we believe. mr. o’bama’s ‘official’ positions shift like sand in the wind. ‘I did not have sex, (finger wagging like the needle on a polygraph machine) with that woman, ms. Lewinsky.’
Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes and ears. What I’m saying right now, not what what I said or did or wrote five minutes ago. You know you can not believe anything you read or see or hear with your own eyes and ears.
I am the the way, the truth and the life. There is none beside me. Come to me and I will give you rest and universal health care.
THE O’bama has spoken. As it is written, so it has been and is (see definition of ‘is’) and shall be now and forever more unless I am confronted with what I said or wrote or did that appears to contradict. Don’t pay any attention to that man behind the curtain. Oooooooooooh Todo, we are not in Kansas anymore. This looks more like Kenya. Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road. IF I only had a brain?!?
yor bro ken
Awesome, I’m so glad McCain talked about IL BAIPA. And…Obama lied…big suprise!
Why not go to the heart of the matter and ask, “Do you
believe the unborn child has a God-given, inalienable
right to life, as the founders stated in the Declaration of
Independence”?
Because it’s above his pay grade, Les.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Pronunciation: pä-‘ster-&-te
Etymology: Middle English posterite, from Middle French posterité, from Latin posteritat-, posteritas, from posterus coming after
1 : the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation
2 : all future generations
I would like to know what Posterity means to the candidates and what rights to they have. After all they are mentioned with ourselves have some rights. Who are the Founding Fathers speaking about here?
Right posterity is future generations, future offspring, and the unborn have not sprung off yet.