Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Abortion Make abortion undesirable by providing healthcare, family planning services, well-managed adoption programs, education and child care, a living wage, and justice. Offer your hand, and people will choose life. As for moral edge-cases like the doctor saving the mother's life, we support the right of human beings to make difficult decisions in service of life to the best of their abilities when those decisions are presented by the face of death. Outside of these cases, regardless of our individual views on personal rights, we maintain that abortion is never a good choice in the wealthiest country in the world. We believe it is possible to construct a society in which abortion is not absolutely prohibited by law, but no one wants one. We seek to resolve real-world problems to decrease demand for abortion, and not to divide people with our religious views. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
1:14 PM
We tend to favor community judgment over judgment by an individual, like our requirement that all suspects be tried in public court by a jury of their peers. We favor this because we believe in ourselves and our society's values. Perhaps a solution under current legal principles could require the consensus of three or more M.D.-holding doctors to agree, based on medical evidence of the specific case, that the fetus could not take ever take a breath on its own or become a conscious person after receiving quality neo-natal care. If they do not agree, then the potential capacity for choice belongs to the unborn child, and no one has a right to take its life.
alternatives under the current "penumbra"
Some who join this party may decide they are against abortion in any circumstance, and some may not see it that way. We think it's worth it to consider alternative solutions conforming to the privacy interpretation under the current "penumbra" of the rights enumerated by constitution and public law. Even if you can get past that, the logical problem in Roe v. Wade's arbitrary 6-month rule is seen by many as a great risk to the integrity of law itself.We tend to favor community judgment over judgment by an individual, like our requirement that all suspects be tried in public court by a jury of their peers. We favor this because we believe in ourselves and our society's values. Perhaps a solution under current legal principles could require the consensus of three or more M.D.-holding doctors to agree, based on medical evidence of the specific case, that the fetus could not take ever take a breath on its own or become a conscious person after receiving quality neo-natal care. If they do not agree, then the potential capacity for choice belongs to the unborn child, and no one has a right to take its life.
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