Can one be liberal and pro-life?

[rwoehmke]

How about being “independent” and picking and choosing what you wish to support and what you wish to change. Of course it requires one to dig beneath the party labels to pick the candidates who most support your choices. Realistically there is only a small proportion of people who are very liberal or very conservative. Most of us under the central part of the bell curve really don’t fit either classification. In my opinion, a pox on most of those who do fall at the extremes.

 

[diggerdomer]

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It depends on who you care most about the liberty of - the unborn child or the mother.

No it doesn’t. We can’t arbitrarily reduce such vague and variegated terms as “liberal” and “conservative” to the sole issue of abortion.

 

[St_Francis]

No it doesn’t. We can’t arbitrarily reduce such vague and variegated terms as “liberal” and “conservative” to the sole issue of abortion.

Well, this is not too bad. The main underlying difference between liberals in their current incarnation and conservatives is their respective definitions of liberty. Liberals believe that the eradication of restraint on personal action is liberty; conservatives believe that liberty is the freedom to do good.

However, few are truly pure, 100% of either, nor is there only one continuum. There are those perceived as being conservative, such as libertarians, who have the same definition of liberty as the liberals but who disagree with the implementation in that they do not believe that others should *finance *the liberty of others. And I am sure there is a school on the left which believes that altho the government ought to support everyone financially, it ought not to allow people to do anything they please.

 

[Mystic_Banana]

No it doesn’t. We can’t arbitrarily reduce such vague and variegated terms as “liberal” and “conservative” to the sole issue of abortion.

We can when we’re determining whether being pro-life or pro-choice is the most liberal choice, in reality, for a liberal. Would John Locke be pro-abortion? This writer thinks not: goodreads.com/story/show/11401.John_Locke_on_Abortion

Mind you, I’m talking the ethical position of ‘liberal’, not the policies of any particular party that considers itself such

 

[Darryl1958]

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Stupak is unique because, otherwise, he’s a liberal on health care. He supports a public option, as long as it doesn’t cover abortion.

This is how to be a pro-life liberal.
Support Stupak against Obama’s obfuscations and the radical pro-abortionists of the Democratic party, and you enter into the ranks of the pro-life liberals.

 

[JimG]

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This is how to be a pro-life liberal.
Support Stupak against Obama’s obfuscations and the radical pro-abortionists of the Democratic party, and you enter into the ranks of the pro-life liberals.

Yes, one can be a pro-life liberal. But one must be consistently pro-life. This means not supporting or voting for any healthcare bill which pays for abortion.

Columnist Nat Hentoff is a pro-life liberal. If I recall correctly, he calls himself an liberal, pro-life, Jewish atheist. But he is both liberal and vehemently pro-life.

 

[diggerdomer]

We can when we’re determining whether being pro-life or pro-choice is the most liberal choice, in reality, for a liberal. Would John Locke be pro-abortion? This writer thinks not: goodreads.com/story/show/11401.John_Locke_on_Abortion

Mind you, I’m talking the ethical position of ‘liberal’, not the policies of any particular party that considers itself such

as I said, it all depends on how one (subjectively) defines “liberal”

 

[AHapka]

I don’t know what you mean by liberal. One can be a Democrat and be pro-life, which we’re seeing more of these days. And as a previous poster said, in the U.S. helping the poor and other such things are seen as liberal.

But considering that conservatives give more then liberals to charity, I think that’s kind of a contradiction, too.

abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&page=1&page=1

 

[Jordan9]

I hope one can be pro-life and liberal. I am, and I’d hate to find out I didn’t actually exist…

It is a shame that liberal political parties have been hijacked by those with an anti-life agenda and their shady rhetoric. “Whatever you have done for the least of these, you did for me.” God have mercy on us.