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1. Member
   Richard Fulmer

   James Gawron:

   Bob Laing:

   Tom Meyer, Ed.:

   Richard Fulmer:

   More and more people – especially millennials – are being won over to the pro-life view. This may be driven, at least in part, by science. Sonograms allow people to see fetuses as they develop and see that they are, in fact, human beings. Moreover, babies are becoming “viable” outside the womb earlier in the pregnancy than ever before. This seems to me to be an odd time to raise the white flag.

   This is a quibble, but I don’t think that’s quite right; rather, it seems to me that millennials have much less tolerance for the Democrats’ pro-abortion absolutism.

   I count that as a very good thing, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that it’s equally wrong to abort a 24-week old fetus as taking Plan B.

   This is correct. And as Millennials continue to eschew religion, it will be harder and harder to convince them that an embryo merits any consideration as a human being worthy of protection. The innate sanctity of life is a foreign concept to them.

   Bob,

   Life is the matter of morality and the subject of all rights, whether you are talking from a religious or secular point of view. The kiddies better wake up. The junk that clogs their brain is worth nothing.

   Regards,

   Jim

   I’m pro-life, but my position is not based on religion. I simply don’t want to grant anyone the right to decide which human beings are not “persons” and therefore not to be given basic human rights.

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   The Forgotten Man

   Trump lives in the NYC New York Times Liberal bubble. Nowhere was it more evident than in the last debate. He thinks its ok to take the position that President Bush lied us into the Iraq war which is ridiculous but a favorite talking point in the NYC bubble. Trump is amazed when he gets booed for saying it because in his world “Bush lied and people died” is a given so the boos must be an RNC conspiracy. It doesn’t even occur to him that he is the only one in the room that thinks his statement is true (accept the moderators) and everyone else in the room regards his statements as an outrageous blood liable (which it is).

   Giving taxpayer money to Planned Barron hood is fine with Trump because that is the opinion inside his NYC New York Times bubble. A bubble supporting murder until the baby crosses the cervix. Trumps a Liberal. He is steeped in liberalism. He can’t even tell when he is taking ultra left positions because they are just normal positions in the world he lives in.

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   Polyphemus:

   Thinking like this from otherwise sensible, engaged citizens is what scares me the most. This is cynicism and surrender. “What does it matter anyway?” is the prelude to all kinds of self-destructive activities.

   Thank you for quoting me in a comment that referenced sensible, engaged citizens.

   But I must disagree that I am demonstrating mere cynicism. It’s experience as well.

   I have grown weary of the endless failure theater from the party of why nothing can be done, and at long last I am unwilling to pretend otherwise. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I am no longer willing to accept the assurances by the GOP that it is acting in good faith, because I have been betrayed so many times.

   I’d suggest that the GOP correct this by acting in good faith- but at this point I’m too cynical to believe them.

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   Amy Schley:

   Man With the Axe:You are absolutely right, and Trump’s supporters, on Ricochet and elsewhere, don’t care. They used to care. Not anymore.

   Assuming facts not in evidence.

   Quite frankly, I don’t think they care. The Mexican menace trumps all in their mind, and Mr. “I was for amnesty until talking about a wall made me a viable candidate” is their chosen one.

   Thanks for the gratuitous accusation of racism, which is all too typical.

   For the record I’d be fine if Trump amnestied most of our illegal alien friends and gave them citizenship- as long as the border was secured and the rule of law was restored.

   But this is exactly what the establishment cannot abide. If the border is secured their source of cheap labor will dry up- and if laws are enforced then those here now will have to be paid much more.

   We can’t have that. So just accuse anyone who wants border security or enforced laws of racism.

   Much easier than having an actual argument.

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   Columbo:This should end the campaign of Donald Trump. I welcome any Trump supporter to counter the argument.

   So this should end the Trump campaign, because he made the exact same argument my wife made against me when I complained about PP.

   How long has PP been butchering babies, btw? Did they just start or has this been going on for a long time, under the noses of the GOP Congress? And the GOP President? Why did we only hear about this when some activists went undercover to film PP and their nefarious doings?

   I bet this has been going on a long time, without let or hindrance from the GOP.

   Now I don’t like that and I presume you don’t like that. But I take this is yet another example of the relentless failure of the GOP to make a political case for or against, essentially, anything.

   Planned parenthood is butchering babies for profit. The GOP- presumably run by people who are looking for ways to stop abortions- never found this out.

   That’s one of the key problems of the GOP- it has no political arm. This is a serious problem for a political party.

   Maybe if it did, both my wife and Donald Trump would have been aware of the seedy side of planned parenthood- and been more willing to go after them and their baby-butchers.

   But no. Building a political case is a job the gop just won’t do.

   That’s failure.

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   carcat74:

   Yes, remember what he said about appointing his sister, the partial-birth abortion supporter, to the Supreme Court….

   I love this one. Trump made an offhand comment about his sister, which led him to immediately say he wouldn’t appoint her to the Court, now followed up by specific examples of judges whom he would appoint.

   This offhand remark disqualifies him from being a Republican, etc.

   Yet Marco Rubio’s weeks of diligent work attempting to deceive people into supporting his amnesty deal with Chuck Schumer- oh, that’s different.

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