Feb
25
The Republican primary for the U.S. Senate has turned into an argument over who is more pro-life. Abortion is always an important issue in Republican primaries so when you have three staunch pro-life candidates, each are trying to distinguish themselves by proving their pro-life bona fides. It has now gotten so foolish that Trey Grayson and Bill Johnson are ganging up on Rand Paul because he has said he would accept abortion law being decided on a state level if protections could not be secured at the national level. For those who were still in diapers in 1973, that was the law of the land before Roe v. Wade. Each state decided abortion laws and it was illegal or at least restricted in all states. Obviously, a much better situation than we have presently. If the Supreme Court struck down Roe, abortion laws would again be decided at the state level.
Dr. Paul has stated repeatedly that he favors a Constitutional Amendment protecting life from the time of conception. He has stated that he has been pro-life since he was a teenager. However, since it appears that a Constitutional Life-Amendment does not seem even remotely likely, he believes we could make some pro-life progress by promoting a states rights Constitutional argument rather than being pigheaded about it like Grayson and Johnson and taking an all or none purity pledge. Incremental change is better than none. It is the rigid extremism of Grayson and Johnson that would prevent the saving of at least some infant lives.
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