Letters to the Editor
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@Glenn re Update III
Thank you for that. Niewert et al. fail to understand that Ron Paul will not vote for anything that he believes the Constitution does not authorize Congress to fund or involve itself with. Period. From that one should not make any inference about whether he thinks the particular project or program proposed to be funded is a good or bad cause in and of itself.
Yes, he broke with his federalist principles on abortion. His view has been that Roe federalized the issue and that only a federal response could "fix" it. But he has also said he may have been wrong to let himself come to that conclusion.
In any event, if Roe is overturned tomorrow, the vast, vast majority of states, including red ones, are still going to legalize at least first trimester abortions. South Dakota just demonstrated that. All the hysterical shrieking about women as slaves and bodies lying dead in alleys in "Ron Paul's world" is about as reasonable as those who think we have to make a glass parking lot of the Middle East to ward of the Caliphate.
Paul is singing from the Lord's hymnal on the most critical issues of the moment, and smearing a man who holds enormous potential to change the terms of the national conversation in the right direction is very, very stupid, not to mention sleazy.