Did the GOP change its stance on abortion in the last few days? Do they not still support abortion in many cases, including “health of the mother?” As I recall, the President says he want to return the issue to the state, not ban it from a federal level. Did that change? That would leave abortion legal for most Americans.
The Supreme Court has been made up of a majority of Republican nominees for what, 20 years? 30? When will this GOP plan to overturn Roe v Wade come to fruition?
Time will tell, I suppose. The last 30 years may give some indication, though. I am not so sure you are correct on Alito, BTW. He is certainly personally pro-life, but in the past he has declined to join Thomas’ dissents calling for overturning Roe v Wade. He may come around if the votes are there, but is far from sure. We simply don’t know yet as to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
if evil is evil, we can’t vote for anyone. even the ASP seems to allow for exceptions to abortion.
https://solidarity-party.org/about-us/platform/#Life
I’m not sure where you got the impression that they seem to allow exceptions, but their platform doesn’t seem to allow them at all.
your bold line explains it.
It sounds like they’ll support any and all measures that will decrease abortion, but they want it to be banned entirely. “The intentional destruction of human embryos in any context must end” leaves no room for keeping restrictions, but rather moving towards a total ban.
the platform does leave the door open, do you have a link where they state that they won’t allow restrictions?
I quoted you the platform. The line that says “The intentional destruction of human embryos in any context must end” is from their platform. If you read that with the rest of what it’s said, it’s obvious that they intend to outlaw abortion entirely and will approve any measures whether it’s a restriction or outright ban to work towards getting rid of it entirely. You’re looking at that one word and ignoring the rest of the paragraph.
just saying destruction must end doesn’t eliminate the restriction. if they were 100% they would not have used the word restrict and just say prohibit.
What part of “The intentional destruction of human embryos in any context must end” leaves room for “We’re okay with just restrictions”?
What do you mean? What could be more official than their platform?
quite frankly, you can’t ignore the word restrict. it is incompatible with “in any context”. the or is the issue. why did they include restrict if it isn’t an option?
You can’t ignore the word restrict, but you also can’t ignore the rest of the paragraph it’s in. They’re saying restrict because they will support any and all measures against abortion, since a restriction is one step closer towards completely banning it. They want a total ban against abortion, and will support any measures taken against it, whether partial or total. This means if a bill was put up to vote to ban the abortion of fetuses older than, say, two weeks, they’d vote in favor of it. And they’d still advocate for it to be completely banned. Would you rather they vote against the bill?