Comments on: In GOP View, Life Is Sacred … Except When It’s Not

By: Mimi2kool

Mimi2kool — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:09:00 +0000

The GOP is a bunch of hypocrites. They only care about the child until the moment it is born.

By: Alun Palmer

Alun Palmer — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:18:00 +0000

Also stated by George Carlin, with more humour, but yes, to a Republican your life is only sacred before you are born, and not after.

By: CAThinker

CAThinker — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:10:00 +0000

Artfully stated – how come so many have trouble understanding the implications of this absolutism? Other than understanding it’s less about life (because it is) and revealing what it really is and that is control. Yes, I said it… The Pro-lifers are not about the sanctity of life, it’s about exerting control. See it… Understand it… And reject it for what it really is.

By: easton

easton — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:07:00 +0000

lets not forget that Antonin Scalia famously said even innocence is not enough to stop Capital Punishment. “This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the
execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial
but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’
innocent,”
Yet Scalia is all weepy for fetuses. What a wretched party the Republicans are.

By: Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:50:00 +0000

How on earth could a Republican senate candidate hold to their fundamentalist stance on abortion if they were confronted by beautiful and awful arguments such as this? What could they possibly say? Other than “my God I was wrong”, what could they say that would allow a reasonable voter to give them their vote?

By: Milton

Milton — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:15:00 +0000

Add my name to “fans of Leonard Pitts” and his excellent writing. He gets to the heart of a matter, in this case , of the right to choose and the GOP witch would take it away, thank you, SIr

By: Gary Graves

Gary Graves — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:39:00 +0000

Life is precious, except when they want to start a war like Iraq Afghanistan, Korea and Vietnam. Think of the lives lost in these wars, oh yes that is patriotism.

By: Landsende

Landsende — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:31:00 +0000

I have asked several of the posters on here that are against a woman’s right to choose if they are willing to accept responsibility for the child born of rape or incest by helping financially and emotionally until the child is eighteen. Not surprisingly, none of them responded. None of them want to put their money where their mouth is. They’re only concerned for the child when it’s in the womb. After its born the mother and child are on their own. If the teapublicans get their way and cut programs that will help the mother and child they will end up living in poverty. So much for compassionate conservatism!!!!!

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 01:16:00 +0000

What about our brave troops that can’t return hostile fire without getting the blessings from the Pentagon or obama. What the hey so we have had record casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq every year baraks rules of engagement have been in place

By: grammyjill

grammyjill — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:47:00 +0000

And that fetus decomposes and poisons the woman.