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In the early days of his campaign, he advocated overturning Roe v. Wade, which would effectively end women's abortion choices, getting rid of Planned Parenthood, and abandoning the health care initiative set to begin next year. Bad news for the poor and women in general.
Whether a woman would make a personal choice to abort a fetus or a man objects to abortions should not affect a woman's ability to make that choice. Abortion does not belong in the political spectrum because no one can know all of the conditions that exist when someone makes that choice. For those who protest that pregnancy is God's will and no human should tamper with it, miscarriages or spontaneous abortions, as the medical community labels them, remain a conundrum. Most women who abort live with emotional turmoil surrounding that decision for the rest of their lives.
This blogger is old enough to remember when abortion was illegal, but that didn't stop women from seeking them. It meant that they often faced unsterile conditions during the procedure. The Bible that I studied never appointed humans to act in God's stead and pass judgment on fellow humans. That is a man-made creation. This country has more pressing issues than that of abortion. When American society can solve the problem of caring and nurturing children who exist outside the womb, we will have accomplished something noteworthy. That social problem looms large and must be solved by more than just more laws. It starts when the baby is born. America's murder rate exceeds that of all other first world nations, but we still have laws that don't properly vet gun buyers. The assasination attempt on Congresswoman Gifford and murder of several in the group listening to her speak and the massacre at a Colorado movie theater illustrate gun use gone wild.
Romney has also waffled on his campaign promise to cut taxes 20% for all taxpayers. Perhaps he succumbed to all the fact-checking organizations that called him out because it would be impossible to implement that change without huge cuts in important safety net programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, Health Care, and other programs designed to assist the most vulnerable in our society. Now he claims that he will raise the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans, something Obama has advocated throughout his term and still exists in his platform.
Romney and his family members won't be affected because of the vast wealth he has accumulated, but people in the middle class and below will. That group comprises a majority of the citizens in this country. So, when voting, consider which candidate would be attuned to what will benefit the majority of Americans.
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