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"Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the "right" of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the "property rights" of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State. Unlike Nazi Germany, which forcibly sent millions to the gas chambers (as well as forcing abortion and sterilization upon many more), the new regime has enlisted the assistance of millions of people to act as its agents in carrying out a program of mass murder."
OK, we know were Ron Paul stands on a fundamental issue as women's choice. No minced words in the above statement!
Why would such a candidate gain any popularity? IMO, because people are not aware or don't understand his reasoning!
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Ron Paul thinks abortion is murder. So what? What matters is whether he will favor the proper constitutional methods to address the issue of abortion. As long as he favors following the Constitution above everything else, it doesn't matter much what his personally held beliefs are about any one specific topic (like abortion). I have read that his voting record in Congress has always been based stricly on accordance with the Constitution.
Do you have anything that shows what he thinks the proper constitutional procedure would be to address the question of abortion? I think I read that he thinks Roe v. Wade (which prohibited the states from determining the legality of abortion) was a flawed decision (and IMO it may indeed have been). If so, he's far from alone in this view. By the way, is Roe v. Wade (or a related case) scheduled to be revisited or heard by SCOTUS?
When it comes to federal authority and action, following the Constitution
> personal beliefs, and as long as Ron Paul supports following the Constitution in addressing such issues, he's miles ahead of any mental midgets (be they politicians, voters or pundits) who think that select specific issues are more important than the Constitution.
Ron Paul says that most of the troubles America finds itself in, are because of a falling away from following the Constitution, and that if America were to return to following the Constitution, most of our problems would be solved. I think he's right on that.
As long as Ron Paul favors a properly constitutional approach to the abortion issue, IMO he's right regardless of his personal views on abortion, and he would be a very good President if he holds to that principle in addressing every issue.
Thanks for reading.
edit 2: on Ron Paul's record:
"Who other than Dr. Paul has “voted nine out of nine times against raising his own pay”? Who other than Dr. Paul has refused to partake in the obscene congressional pension scheme, a veritable shakedown of the indentured taxpayer?
Nicknamed “Dr. No” for voting against all legislation that isn’t expressly authorized by the Constitution, Ron Paul has never voted for an unbalanced budget; never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership; never voted to increase the power of the executive branch; and never taken a government-paid junket.
And he voted no to the Iraq war."
Ilana Mercer compares Huckabee and Paul, illustrating great differences between them