The Rights of the Unborn and the GOP

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Partially in response to Ryger, I would like to give some reasons that I believe protecting the rights of the unborn should be paramount to the Republican party.

First of all, our view of the value of human life affects every other view that we have of the world around us. For example, the view that it is okay to kill an unborn child because it is inconvenient comes from the same selfish place as the view that it is my right to strip a beautiful forest because I want the wood and it would be inconvenient to create and use a sustainable source. The same argument can be made for littering and fossil fuel consumption. When we stand up for the unborn, we are affirming the value of protecting what is in our care.

Another reason that protecting the unborn should be paramount to the RNC is that 24% of American pregnancies currently end in abortion. What would those lives have brought to our nation? First of all, if nothing else, they would have given us workers to support the elderly through our social security system. One of the reasons the social security system is going to fail is that the baby boomers are coming to the end of their lives and there are not enough younger workers to support them. I wonder what 24% more workers would have done for that system. Secondly, is it possible that we have killed the great minds that would have solved many of the medical, social, and environmental problems we wrestle with today? Of course, we can never know what the contributions of those citizens would have been but we do know there would be 24% more people born since 1968 and that would have made a big difference in our economy and our nation as a whole.

Finally, abortion is a women's rights issue, but not in the way NOW and Planned Parenthood sees it. All laws affect what a woman can do with her body. She cannot use her body in prostitution for example. She cannot use her body to ingest illegal drugs. She cannot use her body to kill her children once they are born. Secondly, laws are written to protect the weak from the strong both in private and in public, as our domestic violence statutes demonstrate. For this reason we must protect the unborn. But we must also take in to account the dramatic increase in infertility and cancer in women who have had abortions as well as the dramatic increase in mental health issues for women who have had abortions. The respect for human life is a women's rights issue and the RNC should address it as such rather than being afraid to enrage the ultra liberal feminists.

The GOP will have an uphill battle to win this election. This is a time to wisely articulate the vast differences between the Republican and Democrat platforms and the impact those differences will make, both now and in the future.