Comments for The Melting of the Pro-Life Democrats at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Mon, 20 May 2013 07:52:52 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3806 Blue is very incorrect. Santorum's stance on welfare is not related to "life issues". In fact, in his senate race with Casey, the NYTimes, of all papers, supported Santorum for his work for the poor. While not popular among the progressives, The NYT piece maintains that his proposed caps and policies not only helped ease the states' welfare burdens, but also were linked to lower jobless rates and decreasing unemployment. - Mr.Aukema Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:52:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3798 “Rob” has offered a distorted view of what I’ve written--a performance typical for him. I wrote critically in opposition to Giuliani and I set off some minor tremors in the camp of Mr. Romney in my criticisms of him. But one has to be in a terminal haze not to see that even an Administration under Giuliani or Romney, with a Republican Congress, would not be seeking to sweep away every barrier in the law to abortion on demand. The differences between the parties on this matter are now stark. - Hadley Arkes Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:27:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3794 The analysis of behavior on the part of Democratic representatives who supported Bart Stupak's fight to get a realistic ban for Federal funds from being used for abortions may be realistic. But how sad! One thinks of Pontius Pilate washing his hands before condemning Jesus to death. He tried to duck responsibility for his action, but he still was responsible. How sad! - TeaPot562 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:14:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3793 This slips into over-generalizing by party. Both parties will sell out on life--Republicans tend to do it more on the embryonic stem cell issue; Dems on abortion. Look at the sorry spectacle of Newt Gingrich campaigning for the pro-abortion Repub in New York last fall against a pro-life Conservative. When the Repub pulled out, she threw her support for the pro-abortion Dem, not the conservative. Newt & Repubs came up with egg on their faces. The "logic" is similar in both parties. Jim Cole - Jim Cole Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:45:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3792 Democrats remind me of the old joke of the rabbit saving the snake from the bitter cold on the mountaintop. A snake is still a snake, even a democrat pro-lifer. Their allegiance is always with the party, not with morality. - Arkyunp Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:04:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3789 "And the pro-lifers who keep voting to sustain them in that position have had to talk themselves into the same moral confusion." As opposed to Prof. Arkes who, not that long ago in "First Things", was considering backing Mayor Rudy if he got the GOP nod and assuring readers that Mitt Romney was the best candidate on life. Why care about GOD when we can care about the GOP and such Catholic candidates like pro-choice Rudy and flip flop Mitt? - Rob Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:37:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3787 I have a friend who argues that an abortion is merely a "D and C", nothing more than a quick surgical procedure involving the removal of unwanted tissue, similar to having a wart removed from some part of the body. He then argues that if half the human race -- men -- are unable to have abortions, that should satisfy the pro-lifers. Trying to engage him on moral grounds is fruitless, and the arena must be legal. Edmund Burke says a bad law is the worse form of tyranny. - Joseph Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:35:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3788 Santorum is not pro-life either. On 09-13-1995, he voted to require that states have family caps in their welfare policies, and to require that states deny support for minors bearing children out of wedlock. However, such provisions will tempt the woman to abort the baby, and are therefore pro-abortion. The fact that they were requirements makes them all the more clearly pro-abortion. On the other hand, working families have dependency exemptions and child tax credits to help them raise children - blue8064 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:43:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3786 Professor Arkes is my hero! - Jacob Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:43:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-melting-of-the-pro-life-democrats.html#comment-3785 And so Professor that contorted thinking fostered by euphemisms such as " separation of church and state and freedom of choice ," has allowed a pro-abortion president,and now controls congress as the pro-life Democrats follow their leader like dogs after a dangling peace of meat. How did this narcissistic forked tongued behavior infect our body politic? Is it because those original sell-evident truths of our founders have just been thrown aside? Is it time to take back those truths. Yes! - Willie Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:40:49 +0100