A Word For the Pro-Life Movement, On Those Debates Last Night…

A Word For the Pro-Life Movement, On Those Debates Last Night… September 27, 2016

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I watched the presidential debate.

I’m still not sure why I did it.

I watched a guy try to insult a gal for an hour and a half before telling her that she has no stamina.

I watched a bespectacled African-American moderator calmly tell a white guy that Stop and Frisk is unconstitutional, and cheered.

I dislike both of those candidates immensely. I disagree with both of them on many things. I could go on for pages and pages about my issues with both of them. But there’s one thing I want to draw your attention to right away, because I think it’s important.

Think back to all the times abortion was mentioned in that presidential debate.

Uh-huh. Exactly. I noticed as well.

It was not mentioned once.

So, for all of you Catholic and other Christian voters who place stopping abortion as your priority:  I don’t blame you a bit. I am also pro-life. Whoever you vote for is your business. There are some promising-looking third parties out there, if you like. Write in Captain Crunch and I won’t hold it against you, as long as you did it because you formed your conscience well and listened to it. But if the sole issue you’re voting on is trying to stop or limit abortion,  it’s time to face that the Republican candidate does not care. He mentioned all kinds of things only loosely related to the questions he was asked, during that debate. He was all over the map. He could easily have blurted out “and don’t forget abortion!” if it was really on his mind. It wasn’t, not once. Because he’s not pro-life. He’s a Republican (right now) and is repeating as many Republican party lines he can think of. That one wasn’t in there. If it wasn’t in there during the first presidential debate, where he knew that a hundred million people were likely to listen to what he has to say, it won’t be on his mind when he considers Supreme Court justices or anything else either.

For once, let’s not get had. Let’s not pin our hopes on a political party that’s been hoodwinking the pro-life movement for decades. Vote for any reason other than that. Read up on the candidates. Read up on your faith. Form your conscience, fast, pray, go to the polls, and do what you have to do. Decide which candidate will do the least harm, based on things that are actually likely to happen, and pull that lever. But don’t pretend that it’s about the abortion issue, because we’re up the creek without a candidate for that one.

 

 


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