So wait, your issues with Sarah Palin involve a statewide policy concerning those rape kits (never mind that the victims NEVER saw the cost of those and that rape kits have to be done by qualified medical personnel, hence why they can be billed to insurance and why most hospitals write the cost off if a woman doesn't have insurance) and abortion?
Alright, I'll get to that in a moment, but can I just say that I am a multi-issue person who's not going to be swayed by two VERY minor issues that aren't going to affect me any? (Also, it's highly unlikely that McCain is going to die in office, so long as he doesn't go for a second term. Of eight presidents dead in office, half were assassinated and the other four died of diseases easily cured by modern medicine. Honestly, I haven't heard a lot that would indicate McCain's health is such that he wouldn't last a single term in office. But I digress.)
Anyhow, there's no point arguing the rape kit thing, as there's certainly enough information out there that you have most likely researched well enough to form your own opinion on, and unfortunately my legal research has run a bit dry on the subject of abortion... But, I'm fairly certain it would take the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade and an act of Congress to make abortion illegal. So I wouldn't worry about that if I were you.
Honestly though, compared to the economy and the war in Iraq, I'm just not that concerned about abortions. Even though I disagree heartily with Obama's stance; that abortions can be done even in the third trimester, and that it's perfectly alright to deny medical care to infants born alive as a result of a late-term abortion because they've "been aborted"; I'm still a bit on the fence about him. On the one hand, there is the promise of change. On the other hand, McCain promises change too.
Edit: That said, here's everything about her stance on abortion. (http://www.ontheissues.org/governor/Sarah_Palin_Abortion.htm) I have to ask, why do you think an unborn child ought to suffer for the sins of their father? The mother only needs to carry the child to term, and then she never has to see the child again. It's still a human life, a human life that has done nothing wrong other than existing. Why should it be okay to murder an unborn child because his father was a rapist when we cannot murder the rapist?
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Date: 16 October 2008 18:34 (UTC)Alright, I'll get to that in a moment, but can I just say that I am a multi-issue person who's not going to be swayed by two VERY minor issues that aren't going to affect me any? (Also, it's highly unlikely that McCain is going to die in office, so long as he doesn't go for a second term. Of eight presidents dead in office, half were assassinated and the other four died of diseases easily cured by modern medicine. Honestly, I haven't heard a lot that would indicate McCain's health is such that he wouldn't last a single term in office. But I digress.)
Anyhow, there's no point arguing the rape kit thing, as there's certainly enough information out there that you have most likely researched well enough to form your own opinion on, and unfortunately my legal research has run a bit dry on the subject of abortion... But, I'm fairly certain it would take the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade and an act of Congress to make abortion illegal. So I wouldn't worry about that if I were you.
Honestly though, compared to the economy and the war in Iraq, I'm just not that concerned about abortions. Even though I disagree heartily with Obama's stance; that abortions can be done even in the third trimester, and that it's perfectly alright to deny medical care to infants born alive as a result of a late-term abortion because they've "been aborted"; I'm still a bit on the fence about him. On the one hand, there is the promise of change. On the other hand, McCain promises change too.
Edit: That said, here's everything about her stance on abortion. (http://www.ontheissues.org/governor/Sarah_Palin_Abortion.htm) I have to ask, why do you think an unborn child ought to suffer for the sins of their father? The mother only needs to carry the child to term, and then she never has to see the child again. It's still a human life, a human life that has done nothing wrong other than existing. Why should it be okay to murder an unborn child because his father was a rapist when we cannot murder the rapist?