Abortion
When it comes to abortion, I am pro-choice. However, I am pro-choice under
the guidelines of Roe vs. Wade. I'm sure that there are people that wonder
how a Republican like myself can be pro-choice. I don't think that I'm
alone. If you check out GOPChoice.com or Republicans For Choice, you will
see that between seventy and eighty percent of Republicans are pro-choice
to various degrees. Here are my reasons: First of all, until you can guarantee
birth control methods that are 100% effective, there needs to be a way
to end an unwanted pregnancy in the case of birth control failure if that
is what the woman chooses. I also feel that you have to allow a woman
to make a choice when a pregancy results from rape or incest. Then there
also needs to be a choice when there is evidence of grave fetal deformity,
or the medically necessary abortions needed to
save the life of the mother. I know that allowing abortion for grave fetal
development problems smacks of social engineering, but you have to make
allowances providing that there are safeguards to prevent government mandated
abortions for social engineering purposes. Allowing reasonable restrictions
keeps everyone honest including the government.
One thing I don't want to see the goverment get into is Eugenics, and you have to have regulations that prevent that. This is especially important now, with our "Blue Social Model" on the brink of collapse. We can't every allow the government to use mandated abortion and Euthanasia to "cull the herd," in order to save money. Eugenics was popular among Socialist Elite Progressives like George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Margaret Sanger, and others. Sanger called for the elimination in the United States of "Africans, the Southern European peasant classes, and other 'undersirables' through the introduction of fatal diseases, mandatory abortion, Euthanasia, and mass starvation."
Termination of an unwanted pregnancy, especially during the first trimester, are the least of our worries. The big picture is Eugenics. Let's not let abortion become the door opener for a return to the Eugenics movement of the late 1800s/early 1900s.