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From another forum, in a thread called: if you are voting for Kerry, please explain why.
me: I'm voting for Kerry because I'm pro-life.
otherperson: um, I thought Bush is pro-life and Kerry is pro-choice (he gives a textbook definition of both)
me: Nope.
Abortions went down under Clinton, and up under Bush. They went up 11% in my state since 2001. A few of the top reasons women give for deciding to get an abortion are no health insurance and no job stability - either for themselves directly, or a spouse. An increase in poverty results in an increase in abortions.
I'm also pro-life for people that are already born, so I oppose allowing corporations to freely pollute without accountability, because it kills people. And I oppose the death penalty.
otherperson: Kerry stated that although he is Catholic and respects Pro-Life viewpoints, he believes that the Constitution needs to be upheld in terms of a woman's right to abortion. He further stated that he would support federal funding for abortions to ensure that poor women could obtain them if they chose. Bush countered by saying that he would not allow federal funding to be spent on abortions and that his ban on partial birth abortions and parental notification was helping to promote a "culture of life in America."
me: yep, I know Kerry is pro-choice. And I also support a women's right to chose as well. But the reality is his policies, from sex education, from appointing people to the FDA's advisory committee on reproductive health who don't oppose birth control, to providing health insurance so people aren't dying from having to cut their pills in half, to creating a safe environment that doesn't cause spontaneous abortions because of toxic chemicals, to his foreign policy, to opposing the death penalty - from conception to grave - his policies are pro-life.
Bush gives lip service to being pro-life, but his policies aren't. He supports taking away the right to chose, but that's different than really having a pro-life agenda.
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