Is the abortion issue a current Republican talking point?
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this is something I never could understand, I think if anyone did 5 minutes research they would see it was a republican Supreme Court Justice who wrote the opinion for Roe VS Wade in the Supreme Court, It was also a republican Supreme Court Chief Justice at the time also, Mrs Bush has even said on national TV (The Today Show) she does not believe the Roe VS Wade should be over turned and thought here husband agreed with her. The Roe VS Wade ruling was about not letting the Government control to make the decision for whats  right for a individual, the same with gun control, when the biggest gun control bill in recent history has been the Brady bill,( a Conservative backed bill) yes, both issues had allot of liberal support, but as in both things, but there is allot of gray area, that they misinform people with
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Republican Platform(2)\n-Promote adoption & abstinence, not abortion clinic  referrals. \n-Human Life Amendment to the Constitution.\n-Affirmative Access, without preferences or set-asides. \n-States should not recognize gay marriage from other states. \n-Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. \n-The Patriot Act is used to track terrorist activity. \n-Homosexuality is incompatible with military service. \n-Support the advancement of women in the military.  \n-Support the death penalty. \n-Best way to deter crime is to enforce existing laws.  \n-Jail time and school drug testing deters drug use.  \n-Promote school choice and home-schooling. \n-Support voluntary student-initiated prayer in school.  \n-No Kyoto, no mandatory carbon emissions controls.  \n-Private property ownership key to environmental agenda. \n-Cap-and-trade market-based air pollution reductions.  \n-Families are the cornerstone of our culture.  \n-Nations that support terrorism are just as guilty. \n-A global coalition has broken al Qaeda cells. \n-The Pakistan government working with US to fight terror. \n-Saudi Arabia has joined the War on Terror. \n-Iraq is now becoming an example of reform. \n-Libya's munitions have been destroyed. \n-Iraqi government has gained broad international support. \n-Pursue a comprehensive strategy against WMD proliferation. \n-Applaud the success in mobilizing international cooperation. \n-The Broader Middle East Initiative spreads democracy. \n-Provide new strategies to help poor nations. \n-Objectives of assistance and the strategies must change.  \n-Stop activist judges from banning Pledge & Ten Commandments.  \n-Open more public land to hunting. \n-No frivolous gun lawsuits, no gun licensing.  \n-Government-run universal health care leads to inefficiencies. \n-Ethical research yes; embryo cells no; cloning no. \n-ABC for AIDS: Abstinence, Be faithful, Change behavior. \n-No assisted suicide.  \n-Bush has kept the charge to protect our country. \n-Bush has implemented biodefense measures. \n-Bush and Congress have been careful to protect liberties. \n-Keep our homeland safe by taking action on multiple fronts. \n-Keep our homeland safe by taking action on multiple fronts. \n-Establish minimum safety requirements at chemical plants. \n-Greatly increase the federal bioterrorism budget. \n-Recapitalize and enlarge the Coast Guard's fleet. \n-Break down the wall between intelligence and law enforcement. \n-Support to create a National Intelligence Director position. \n-Establish a National Counterterrorism Center. \n-Provided Arm Forces better pay, treatment, and training. \n-Cover all basic housing costs for average service members. \n-Increased funding for VA health care. \n-Equip our nation to fight 21st Century adversaries. \n-Provide $10 billion to defend from ballistic missiles.  \nImmigration\n-Only legal immigrants, through tightly controlled borders. \n-Amnesty encourages illegal immigration. \n-Use biometric data to better track foreign travelers.  \n-We saw the spirit of courage and optimism on 9/11.  \n-Support do-not-call and do-not-email lists.  \n-Terrorists seek weapons of mass destruction to kill us. \n-Shrink the space in which the terrorists can operate. \n-Total and complete destruction of terrorism is needed. \n-Afghanistan is liberated and the American people are safer. \n-Saddam had capability to reconstitute his weapons programs.  \n-Faith-based welfare grants equal with secular groups. \n-Move more welfare recipients off the welfare rolls. \n \nRepublicans have a oath they swear to at my link(1).\n\n\nDemocrats do not make people swear an oath. Their platform is(3):\n-Pursue embryonic stem cell research. \n-Support right to choose even if mother cannot pay.  \n-Cut the deficit in half over the next four years.  \n-Strengthen some parts of Patriot Act and change other parts. \n-Support affirmative action to redress discrimination. \n-Racial and religious profiling is wrong. \n-Keep mar
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hey!!! my frend evie just had the greatest idea! u could rite about abortion. It's a great topic that many people dislike. hope this helps!
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absolutely nothing. people like to order other people around based on their beliefs. abortion and gay marriage are things that really don't effect us on a day-to-day basis, but they are highly controversial opinionated topics that are the base of the conservative platform.
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If you want to get people's attention and/or probably make some of them mad, you should do a speech on the "wedge" issues (as Lou Dobbs calls them) between Republicans and Democrats, environmental issues, lowering the drinking age, abortion, foreign policy, drugs legal/illegal. Another thing is to find an issue that is at least semi-interesting within your local/state community, like something in the news perhaps, or an on going problem, or why to outlaw something, or make something into a law.
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I think if done professionally Republicans can raise good points. If you are looking for them on here, on either side, you will be sorely mistaken. People let their emotions control the real need for solution.
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Neither.\n\nSome will say Republican but all this does is show me how much Republicans have controlled it all the while it was going up.
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no one loves abortion, and the women who have them usually are making the right choice.lets talk republican shall we? your so focused on abortion, you are latting our country go broke. you dont want welfare? so let a bunch of people have kids they cant take care of. oh and while your out being conservitave your kids are out getting high on meth and getting impregnated by strangers.
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Ok..I live in the South..and it is indeed predominantly Republican in a sense.  There are, like any of the States, some educated people here that vote Republican based strictly on the issues and what they believe.\n\nThe majority of people down here believe in a persons right to bear arms..and that is a notoriously republican platform...and it leads a lot of folks here to vote specifically on that issue.\n\nThe abortion issue is a big one too..here in the bible belt..folks don't like that kind of thing..it's just plain old murder in their opinion.\n\nThe sad facts are that if you asked the vast majority of people here in the South (and I mean the DEEEEEEEEP SOUTH) what the main differences are between Republicans and Democrats they wouldn't be able to tell you..(and folks, I've lived here a long time..so I'm not just blowing smoke)..they may be street smart here but most of them haven't read any book beyond the bible..(which they tend to take literally)..so I would call it 'blind' voting..\n\nThe truth is that a very small percentage of the population down here actually vote...and those that don't may well be Democrats..they just choose not to exercise their rights because they think that other people are out there doing it for them...\n\nAm I blasting Southerners? Nope, I'm one too...I'm just merely giving an educated opinion based on experience..
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One of the most widely debated topics in this country and you can't think of anything to debate about?\n\nIf you're pro choice, why?  That's what the paper is about.  What do you say to others that oppose your point of view?  Is your view point fixed?  Could you be swayed to another perspective?\n\nWhat objections to your point of view are most troubling for you?  \n\nIf all else fails...triple space.
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Of course it is. The president's rating is lower than it has ever been and even the red states are beginning to turn against him, so it was time for the republicans to bring a new debate to the table. It will work just like the homosexual debate did because the democrats don't have the balls to stand up and say "hey, what about Iraq? what about all of our young men and women that are dying over there? what about Iran? why aren't we agreeing to go into talks with them?" Luckily for the Republicans, most Americans seem to have the attention span of a goldfish and are too lazy to check out so called facts that are given to them, so whatever issue is waved in front of their faces at the moment is all they care about.\nAnd by the way... in response to one of the other answers... there are no Mexicans in Spain. Mexicans come from Mexico, Spaniards come from Spain.
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I'm a liberal and I really don't care... that's not one of my party's "core issues"... it's like saying "why do all conservatives want to be able to own automatic weapons?"... many conservatives don't care about automatic weapons.... some do...\n\nit's a fringe issue and not really what's important right now...
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It has been the GOP talking point since the last election. Remember when Bush challenged the Democrats to come up with a plan for winning the war? It's like someone tearing apart an expensive timepiece and then demanding that you immediately fix the problem he created. Maybe the better idea was to not break the timepiece in the first place, and certainly not to hire the same person to break even more!\nAnyway, the strategy of ignoring democratic ideas clearly works, and the media love to repeat the mantra that the democrats don't have any solutions. Even when the Democrats held a news conference recently to map out new policy, the news media covered it little, if at all, and continued to bemoan their lack of ideas.\nDemocrats just need to insist that their ideas be heard, and continue to false statements.
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It doesn't really matter now does it. The only hope for this country is if a viable third party candidate runs. The two major parties are totally out of touch with the American public, the constitution and the vision of our founding fathers.\n\n They both have their own agendas,Republicans-big business interests and big business interests(One track minds),Democrats-social programs and big business interests. The heart of America(The middle class) is left out.\n\n A good third party candidate is our only hope.\n\n I will tell the Dems this. If you put ANY candidate out there that supports pro-choice, you will lose. That is a no compromise issue. I know many many people that agreed with Democrats on many issues, as a matter of fact on most issues, but they would not and WILL NEVER compromise on that issue. That is so important to them that they will vote on that one issue only. As much as they may hate the candidate's stand on every other issue, it doesn't matter if he supports them on that issue. They will vote for him. Bank on it.\n\n Also the gay issue drives them crazy. These are not right wing religious crazies either. These are Joe and Sue six pack that doesn't want to see guys walking down the street holding hands and kissing. They don't want their kids to see it either. That's reality people. They are not homophobes. A phobia, by the way, is a fear. They are not afraid of them. They just hold the belief that that way of life is not moral and they don't want their child to see it. Believe it or not the parents have rights too.\n\n So everyone be forewarned that if the Democratic candidate comes out in favor of pro-choice and pro gay marriage they  will lose. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Those are the two issues that cost Dems the last two elections and THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED. Those are no compromise issues! As much as you rant and rail and tell them that they are homophobes and are not allowing women the right to make decisions about their own bodies, it will not matter. It's not, as many Dems. so arrogantly think, that people don't get it or that they are backward or are religious loons. It's simply that they DISAGREE WITH YOU!\n \n Now don't get me wrong, my personal belief is that Bush is a loon and that Chaney is a truly evil person. I didn't vote for them. But I didn't vote for Kerry either. They were both awful. But people feel VERY strongly about those issues and they will FIGHT VERY HARD to make sure a candidate doesn't win who supports them. That has not changed! So as happy as you are about Bush's current free fall be prepared for a vicious fight.
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Ooooh.  Are you connected to the republican talking points?\nBecause that's what YOU are saying, \nnot the media.\nbecuz thats wat Republicans do.
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You need to look at the religious issues that each side accepts as it's moral grounding. Republicans usually stand on a platform built on values that include Pro-Life, and the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. There are many other issues to be concerned with, but these are the majors. \nDemocrats generally believe the opposite and go with a more liberal approach to abortion and Pro-Choice is their platform. Also, the take on the gay marriage is usually widely accepted with the Democrat community.\nIf you are looking for a "side" to stand on, I suggest that you do some serious research and decide for yourself which you prefer. I don't know anyone that agrees with everything that their party does, and just because the current President is a Republican, don't let the things that you've read on this site skew your beliefs. You have a choice to believe what you want. Choose wisely.\n\nAnd just a side note......Vote Republican, those Democrats are morons.
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It very well could be ... that's why we need to get involved NOW ... for every vocal pro-lifer out there ... there are hundreds of silent pro-choicers ... you need to advocate!!!