Republicans Scrap An Anti-Abortion Bill. The Rank And File Stay Silent... Or Applaud!

Human zygote.

Human Person?

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Alan: It has long been clear that Republicans have no intention of enacting a blanket ban on abortion. 

If a hundred Republican parents had a 12 year old daughter rape-impregnated by Willie Horton you can safely bet The Eternal Salvation of your bloodline forever (in both directions) that 99% of them would clamor for safe, legal abortion. 

Here's the kicker...

Once you draw the line "somewhere," citizens can draw the line "anywhere" their conscience sees fit.

Compendium Of Pax Posts On Abortion

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/compendium-of-pax-posts-on-abortion.html

Republicans scrap a bill on abortion. "House Republican leaders abruptly dropped plans late Wednesday to vote on an anti-abortion bill amid a revolt by female GOP lawmakers concerned that the legislation's restrictive language would once again spoil the party's chances of broadening its appeal to women and younger voters." Ed O'Keefe in The Washington Post.

Politically, the retreat was a sensible one. "A renewed effort to curb abortion rights carried severe risk not just for the House GOP Caucus but the party's eventual presidential nominee. Because in a race against Hillary Clinton, the GOP starts at a stark disadvantage among a very specific group of voters it needs to start peeling away from Democrats if it intends to take the White House: white, college-educated women. These are mostly suburban, moderate voters who skew socially moderate but are hardly fiscally progressive; in other words, they're broadly supportive of abortion rights but generally opposed to higher taxes." Alex Roarty in National Journal.

Human Person?

(Any room for democratic debate?)