Letters to the Editor
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What about "life begins at conception?"
Mona,
You addressed birth control, but not Paul's support of the idea that "life" begins at conception. (Of course it exists. What doesn't exist is a human being.)
Every time I've seen a flurry of support for Paul, none of his cheerleaders, while praising his support for "freedom," ever seem willing to address this subject. Sure, Paul claims to want to hand the abortion question back to the states by overturning Roe V.Wade. The ultimate result of such an act would be to eliminate access to abortion in 75% or more of the states, forcing women to resort to back-alley abortions. It won't end abortions, it'll just make them deadly. (Abortion numbers are actually higher in states that have cultures strongly opposed to it.)
As far as I'm concerned, Paul's desire to get out of Iraq doesn't make up for his willingness to remove the basic rights of over one half of the population ... and yes, I mean the ones who have fully-developed brains, not blastocysts.
I used to read Glenn religiously. I don't think I'll be doing that quite so much. He seems, like all the Paul supporters and apologists whose comments I've read, to feel that "I don't agree with all of Dr. Paul's positions" gets him off the hook as far as the anti-choice position is concerned.
I wonder what percentage of Paulites are women? (Mona is proof that some do exist.( At least the ones who are openly anti-choice are honest, if hypocritical in their glorifaction of the "freedoms" Ron Paul will grant them.