Recently A republican candidate made a boneheaded statement, saying that if a woman is raped then her body has ways of preventing that from turning into a pregnancy.
Immediately influential members of the republican party and other conservatives called for his pulling out of the race for senate that he was in.
The RNC pulled ALL financial support, conservative radio personalities called for him to discontinue his run and conservatives everywhere are saying “NO this guy is not for us.”
His democratic opponent has indicated her “surprise” at the reaction of the conservatives and liberals that I know have declared that the “only reason they [republicans] are being so hard on the guy is because they think it will look bad to support him on the ticket.” Or “it gives his opponent a better chance to keep her seat.”
There is one problem with those assertions though. And that is, they are all nonsense.
The reason why conservatives want this guy off the ticket is because we do not believe in the things that he says. Period. End of story.
The “values” his comment would back are not the values of the republican or conservative platform.
Are we against abortion in general? Yes. Are we against stopping the pregnancy of someone who was raped or who had a tubal pregnancy or in other such cases where the life or wellbeing of the mother and/or the child would be jeopardized? Not necessarily.
One of the big issues at stake here is do we allow people who have been hugely irresponsible get away with no repercussions. Worse every life that is aborted is one that never gets the chance to enjoy life. We all have a life in the here and now. If you are reading this you are alive. You may not like it you may even hate it but you have one.
With that life you have the choice to make whatever decisions you want to. So why are we all hell bent on denying these poor, unborn, children a chance to make up their own minds?
If that child’s life is really going to be as hellish as the critics claim then maybe we ought to let that child make up it’s own mind about what it wants to do about it.
Think about all the influential figures in life who had hellish lives and ended up making the world a better place because they wanted to make their lives better. People like Louis Pasteur, or Samuel Clemens, or even Stephen Hawking.
Most of the stories of inspiration in our culture are about people who overcame from the hardest of circumstances.
Where would we all be if all of those people had been aborted in the womb?
So back to the problem of this conservative idiot, see there is a point that is confusing the liberals, conservatives hold people accountable.
We want to hold people accountable for their actions. We will not let this guy slide, we will not make excuses for him. He has screwed up and now he must pay for it. This is the opposite model that Democrats use.
We will not spin this, we will not laugh it off. He holds an opinion that means that no REPUBLICAN will vote for him.
In short Conservatives use their brains.
And we vote our conscience. And that is why there is this outcry.
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