princess_ballet
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I'm not sure I see the quandry here. McCain has never wanted to make abortion illegal. He wants to reverse Roe V Wade in such a way that it doesn't make abortion illegal but rather that it makes it a state issue which means he would have no control over the matter.
If McCain was pro-life he would be insisting on the defense of the dignity of the unborn person at the federal level rather than trying to obscure the issue making it 50 times more difficult to make illegal.
If the Republican Party was sincerely interested in ending abortion one would assume that there would have been something done during GWB's first term, when the GOP held the White House, both the House and the Senate and had installed a new Chief Justice of the Supreme court.
Their failure to act on this matter when the GOP was in control of all three branches of the government severely damages their credibility.
I am seeing politics as usual rather than the GOP with the moral high ground
I don't know why this is such hard concept for people to understand but, I will say it one more time...
The ONLY way abortion could be made illegal is if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It would then go to the states, where most states have made abortion illegal. Other than that, it would take a constitutional amendment (and if you read the constitution, you'll see that that isn't so easy).
Thats how our system works! Its shared problems between the federal government and the states. This is how it works.
Any questions?
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