Conservatives Anxious About Pro-Life Agenda During Bush's 2nd Term

[pstokely]

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/42004b.asp

(AgapePress) - While pro-lifers are hoping President Bush's re-election will bode ill for legalized abortion in America, a powerful Republican has a warning for conservatives who believe last Tuesday's victory will lead to more pro-life judges on the federal bench.

Pro-lifers are hailing President George W. Bush's success in securing a second term in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election as a strategic victory in the ongoing battle to end legalized abortion. Many political analysts have declared that the moral issues-concerned and faith-based "values voters" were instrumental in the Republican incumbent's win. And now that Bush's agenda has won its reprieve, some pro-lifers are calling on Bush to repay the debt.

Operation Rescue's Troy Newman notes, "The moral conservative and religious voter turned out in droves and has proven to be the backbone of the Republican Party." His pro-life organization spent the last three weeks prior to November 2 in Ohio and Pennsylvania, exposing John Kerry's support for a "culture of death," and Newman believes that effort helped propel Bush to victory in the ultimately decisive state of Ohio

[prodigal_green]

1. I hope every one of their agenda items come up

before 2006. Make the less conservative Repukes choke on their votes, one way or another. They shit in their bed, let them lay in it.

[IconoclastIlene]

3. Im fifty and I dont give a goddamn about abortion

Let them bring back coathangers to all the ladies who voted for Bush; that is what I wish for them.

[calico1]

5. I'm with you on this.

I will be 47 in March. I am tired of trying to educate younger women about what they give up voting for the Repukes. Like a 34 year old that works in my area who has very progressive opinions but who does not educate herself and is totally clueless and would rather go shopping than read or educate herself. She is also a single mother to a 15 year old. I told her about Roe v. Wade. I told her about the draft. I brought her an article from Prevention on how a lot of doctors are refusing to prescribe birth control. She is dense. Despite all her views she voted for Bush because she really didn't think there was any difference between them and Bush seems "nicer" and news is so boring, ya know? Okay then, I say screw it. Why should I who is past child bearing years and who has no children be more concerned about what is happening than a woman of childbearing age who has teenage child who doesn't give a shit? I agree with you. Let them bring back coathangers. I am almost at the point where I want it to happen. That and the draft. I am sick of fighting for other people's rights when they don't give a shit.

[webtrainer]

2. when these folks establish complete Dominion . . .

they'll be well beyond anti-choice, they want to establish Biblical Law, which in part means:

-death penalty for abandonment of the faith, blasphemy, heresy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, sodomy, homosexuality, striking a parent, and ''unchastity before marriage'' (but for women only.)

(btw: Biblically correct methods of execution include stoning, the sword, hanging, and burning.)

-scrapping of environmental protection of all kinds, because there will be no need for this planet earth once The Rapture occurs.

-end of public funding for education (home school / Christian schools only)

-peace cannot ever lead to The Rapture, and indeed impedes the 1,000 year Reign of Christ. So anyone promoting peace is an enemy, a tool of Satan, hence the fundamentalist support for any and all wars Middle Eastern.

(bonus if your kid die in such a war, yeay holy matrydom!)

more here-->http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant05252004.html

[dogtag]

4. Operation Rescue is going to be mighty disappointed.

The repukes will do more than they did the last time. Nada. They need to keep it afloat as a wedge issue. I've got news for the pro lifers...Shrub thinks you are a bunch of whackjobs and wouldn't have a cup of coffee with you. You just don't get it. It's all smoke and mirrors.