Comments on: Editorial: Abortion - Exit Stage Right http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Dakota http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right#comment-1103 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:55:52 +0000 http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right#comment-1103 Noah: Your certainly correct about abortion being the "big" issue. But I also share Dennis' concern; if the occasion should ever arise, I would still feel much better having a pro-life governor instead of a liberal Republican in office. On a side note, here in Colorado, the only serious Democratic candidate for governor is opposed to abortion. And it is very likely that many Democrats will throw him out with the bathwater. And I don't intend to stop them. Noah: Your certainly correct about abortion being the “big” issue. But I also share Dennis’ concern; if the occasion should ever arise, I would still feel much better having a pro-life governor instead of a liberal Republican in office.

On a side note, here in Colorado, the only serious Democratic candidate for governor is opposed to abortion. And it is very likely that many Democrats will throw him out with the bathwater. And I don’t intend to stop them.

]]> by: Noah Stansbury http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right#comment-1102 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:32:31 +0000 http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right#comment-1102 You make an excellent point, Dennis. I see two possibilities once _Roe v. Wade_ is overturned. One is that in addition to overturning the decision, the Court will also ban abortion completely. This is unlikely, in my opinion. The other possibility is the one you mention: the Court turns the matter over to the individual states. Still, we don't know how long it will be until the Court has an oppurtunity to reverse _Roe_. Until then, I beleive that we should proceed as I argue in my article. Once abortion becomes a state issue, I agree that it will become extremely important to have pro-life state legislators. If a state legislature is particularly liberal, it should (in theory) be easy enough to swing that legislature to a pro-life stance. You make an excellent point, Dennis. I see two possibilities once Roe v. Wade is overturned. One is that in addition to overturning the decision, the Court will also ban abortion completely. This is unlikely, in my opinion. The other possibility is the one you mention: the Court turns the matter over to the individual states.

Still, we don’t know how long it will be until the Court has an oppurtunity to reverse Roe. Until then, I beleive that we should proceed as I argue in my article. Once abortion becomes a state issue, I agree that it will become extremely important to have pro-life state legislators. If a state legislature is particularly liberal, it should (in theory) be easy enough to swing that legislature to a pro-life stance.

]]> by: Dennis http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right#comment-1089 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:47:39 +0000 http://www.virtuemag.org/articles/abortion-exit-stage-right#comment-1089 Noah, if Roe v Wade is overturned, wouldn't the issue of abortion become a state issue? If so, state level offices will become very important to the abortion debate. Noah, if Roe v Wade is overturned, wouldn’t the issue of abortion become a state issue? If so, state level offices will become very important to the abortion debate.

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