Posted by Bob on 10/3/2007, 12:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Religious right threatens to run own candidate" Single-issue decisions on candidates should not be taken over minor or peripheral issues. But slavery and abortion, among a few others, involve fundamental core values about who we are as a nation. My personal view on abortion is that there are times when it is necessary. But the central issue should not be the woman's right to choose. It should be the right to life. To that end, I would simply require that the abortion be preceded by a fair hearing, one in which the woman's needs are fully expressed, and in which the unborn child has a voice through an advocate. Simple due process would validate both the woman's needs, AND the child's humanity. Whether or not this process prevented any particular abortion, it would at least honor our nation as a nation where fairness and compassion play at least some role. That is one of my "single-issue" decision points, and no candidate who flatly refuses to respect human life, at least to this minor extent, has any more hope of getting my vote than a KKK advocate of returning to slavery. Faced with no acceptable choice, I would either write in a name, or else, stay home.
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I appreciate your answering a difficult question. But the extent to which you had to explain your answer is a measure of the complexity of the issue.
