why do republicans care about people before they are born and not afterwards?
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That's like saying that democrats kill babies but protect criminals.  It's simplistic and ignorant.\nRepublicans believe that fetuses are living humans and should be protected from being killed by mothers who use abortion as a way to have a sexually promiscuous life-style.  They also believe that murderers have given up their right to life by taking the life of another unlawfully, and deserve to die.\n\nDemocrats see the fetus not as a human, but part of the human body until it can live on it's own.  They see adult humans, even murderers as fully formed humans who have potential that can never be met if they die. Even if they did kill others unlawfully, they deserve to have that potential met.\n\nI get so tired of the ignorant, one-sided propaganda wars I see here, but unless you ask the question, you'll never get any answers, so I don't want to discourage you.  But if you don't learn from this, and continue to present nonsense even knowing the facts, then the heck with you.  You deserve the kind of life you'll end up living.
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Because, the liberals who claim to care about the people, are the ones who are pro-choice.  These people prefer a socialist government too.  In a socialist government what the government considers best for the people as a whole over rides the rights, needs and desires of the people. The maintenence of such a system requires that the government control education.\n\nAt the same time, the emphasis on the group tends to lower the value of individual lives.  When individual life is not valued, the issue of wether or not to have an abortion, or to make a decision of wether or not to take ones life or assist in a suicide becomes a choice of convenience.  If individual life is no longer valued than the decision to end ones own life or the life of another becomes insignificant.  \n\nFor all you pro-choicers out there a "fetus" is a full and complete human being from the moment of conception.  If they were not fully human than something would have to be added to the mix, but science has proven that this does not happen.  Though undeveloped an unborn child is a complete human being.
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I don't know... religion has had it's share of killings... but at the same time, I think a lot of it is caused by the perversion of religion... people who twist it to serve their own needs... like the conservatives... Republican policy is much more like Roman policy in the Bible than what Jesus believed... abortion is the only real issue that Republicans seem to have in common with what Jesus may have actually believed, and one issue does not a "moral party" make. \nBut, people would rather focus on just the issue of abortion, than all of the other things the Repbulican party does like constantly cut funds to the poor and healthcare, killing many, many more in the U.S. than abortion does a year... and their excuse is that they were lazy, which of course is rediculous...\nI guess what I'm trying to say is... that religion is today, and has been since it's inception, full of "money changers in the temple." People using religion for their own purposes, and if you do belive in God, he's probably not to happy with what's going on. \nI personally think anytime you bring religion into politics, or business, it's asking for trouble, corruption and God's wrath.
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because republicans realize that for this country to be successful and lead the world and move humanity ahead, that business has to be good and not taxed to death like our socialist democrat brothers would have you believe...\n\nhow did society ever make it without leaders who were pro-business...???
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There are two types of Republicans in my opinion- those who are Republican because they are rich and enjoy the way our economy works, and those who are Republican because of their moral beliefs.  I think that when deciding which party to belong to, many Christians try to pick the lesser of two evils (ah, the irony).  They choose the Republican party because of their moral beliefs and then, with the other side of the Republican party's ideas in mind, spend their money to help the poor through their church rather than through their government.  There's far less bureaucracy if done this way, and you know your money will be going towards its intended use.  I also think there's more emphasis on homosexuality and abortion because for one, the government has many services in place to help the poor and impoverished (redundant?), so their efforts are placed elsewhere.  I also don't think that in the time Revelation was written that abortions were as prevalent as they are now.  It's become a bigger issue, so people have made it a greater cause.  \n\nHowever, you pose an extremely valid question.  I've become increasingly fed up with the way big business works in this country (and others), and I really SHOULD do something about it.  I think you've just indirectly encouraged me to give more to Christian charities and pay way more attention to candidates and stuff.  I might even take up reading the paper again.  :P
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they seek the attention that the never got as a child. second borns always feel threatened by the first born. so go out of their way to prove a point!
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Republicans are interested in being elected which may explain why the matter is frankly want happen during these sessions. It's going to be addressed only after they are re-elected. Why they think hispainc  vote of say 15-20 million is a big factor to them yet there are still  100's of millions of other American voters as well Republicans who think more then 15-20 million hispanic voters seal  the deal they seem to feel they are assured being elected This is not going offer the results they desire and Americans are sick of getting sick about this when the idea the hispanic vote overides every other vote has more clout then any other people on earth. Call it big headness. The Republicans  and congress will find out that enough is enough when remember to vote in Nov. Lastly most Republicans are  only acting out of self interest . What a dark time in America history... REMEMBER TO VOTE
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You have logic in your argument, and it makes complete sense.  People just want a reason to justify not having to deal with a baby, because they wanted to have sex more.  People need to speak up for, and fight for those that cannot fight for their own lives.  Unborn humans, which if left alone, will grow to become like you and I, did not ask to be made or born, but have the right to life like you and I.  I will always fight for them, and speak up.  There are little souls in there, and people don't realize how totally serious it is to stop a beating heart.
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I myself have always wondered what would make hard working tax payers vote Republican. I thought it was common knowledge that Republicans work to benefit only the richest people in America, not the working class, which is the majority of us here. But it appears that all some people need is for some politician to say he's conservative and against abortion or gay marriage or illegal immigrants or whatever hot issue is in vogue at the time and these same hard working tax payers forget how much they may be struggling financially go and vote for him on "moral issues or family values". If you are not already rich before you vote Republican then you definitely won't become rich after you vote for them. If you have as much money as George Bush, or the likes then of course you should vote Republican because then he will be working for your interests.
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I hope you are right.   There's a lot of news coverage on the new people in politics who are willing to go after what's really important.  But how long will it take for the damage the Republicans have caused to be over.
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Republicans use any excuse they can to do what ever they want... they don't care if it makes sense or if it's consistent with their previous actions... \n\nI mean about 80 percent of them are like "don't talk bad about Bush, he's our president" and this is after they just got done calling Clinton every name in the book for 8 years... \n\nthey don't care what happened yesterday or what happens tomorrow, they just want what they want right now and d*mn everything else to h*ll...
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You ask a very good question, and I believe ignorance is your answer. I believe that many people do not spend the time to actually research who they vote for, and then when the president (or any elected official) turn out to be bad, they complain about it even though they voted for him/her. The other reason is that people, more often than they should, vote along party lines. "If you're a Christian, you should vote Republican because of their views on abortion." That's the backwards logic some people believe. You have to vote the issues you agree with most, not the party lines. That happened in the last election, too.\n\nI don't know if this really answered your question, but it's a little of what I think is wrong with people and politics.
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Republicans rightfully worry about each equally, because each is equally bad and equally needs to be stopped.  It's just like the matter of letting criminals such as the murder O.J. Simpson go scot free or convicting and punishing the innocent.  Despite the many statements made by our so-called "Founding Fathers" (in reality blithering idiots) and frequently reinterated by the membership of the Association of Criminal-Lovers United (ACLU), sending an innocent man to prison is NOT ten times worse than letting a guilty man go free.  The two are equally bad and equal action should be taken to prevent each.  That is NOT the fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans.  The fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans is that while both mean well (which is a very good thing), Republicans exercise much better (albeit not perfect) judgement and therefore DO much better.  As for Jesus, he never existed and would have been a jerk if he did.
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Because most Republicans are for less government involvement in your life and LOWER taxes.  Most, and not all, Democrats want to give everything to everyone and enjoy having a class of society dependent on them, such as welfare recipients.
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Republicans don't think.  If someone is running as a Republican they vote for them.  It's why their symbol is an elephant.  Did you ever watch the elephants at a circus. They grab the tail of the elephant in the front and follow it without even thinking of where they are going.  This is what Republican voters do.  They don't think, they just grab the tail of the lead Republican and follow or vote for that person without even thinking of where they are going, like to a needless war in Iraq, hugh deficit spending,  hugh increase in gas prices,  more poverty, smaller middle-class, less people covered by hospitalization, etc.
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Because of Republicans
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Because conservatives live and breathe and promote fear.  It helps them rattle vulnerable people into supporting their oppressive policies.  Don't forget the "terror alert" gauge that pretty much got retired after the 2004 elections, the boogeyman Osama that Bush seems to revive every so often, and the Patiot Act.  \n\n"BE VERY AFRAID AND VOTE FOR THE GOP!!"  \n\n(This was the gist of a political ad released just before the November elections....fat lot of good it did them, too....)