What have the Republican's done about abortion?

Question

Most of them say they are against abortion but we just had 8 years with a Rep. President and almost 8 years of a Rep. majority in congress and what have they done about abortion? What did the first Bush do about abortion? What did Ford do about abortion? What did Ragan do about abortion? What did Nixon do about abortion? Seems to me that voting Republican for the simple reason that they are against abortion is a pretty stupid reason. What good is being against something if you don't put feet to your words?

Answer 1

It's not like the President can get elected and make it illegal. They have put justices in who will interpret the constitution literally without deciding to put in a right to privacy provision (Respected NOWHERE else BUT the abortion debate) and reduce the damage as much as they can (such as suggesting that maybe a 12 year old who can't get an asprin without parental consent not get a major outpatient procedure done on a whim without their parents knowing about it). No other freedom, even the explicitly stated right to free speech is given such a broad spectrum. But this term, the pro-choice movement was given it's first "You can't just do anything and everything" moment of pause with the late-term abortion debate in the Supreme Court. It didn't stop late term abortions, just made it so the baby would have to be killed BEFORE the very same procedure, but it was a symbolic victory.  

Answer 2

Abortion laws are enacted by States, so you should look at what's happened in State legislatures for an answer to your question.

Answer 3

They have not done anything for over 30 years.  People who vote on this non-issue are throwing away their vote.

Answer 4

They try like h**l to make it illegal, but the supreme court has ruled it legal.  The republicans hope to keep electing republican presidents who are right-to-lifers so they can appoint enough supreme court justices that will do their bidding and make abortion illegal.

Fortunately, every now and then they goof on the appointment or a democrat president appoints a pro-choice justice so women still have the right to choose not to have babies they don't want or can't afford to support.

Unfortunately, neither the democrats nor republicans have done anything about major issues and focus on irrelevant issues such as abortion.

Answer 5

They did pass a partial-birth abortion ban.  However, the steepest decline in the number of abortions actually occurred during Clinton's years.  When one provides a net of protection for the poor, economics are taken off the table.  All things being equal, mothers want to keep their babies.  It is a difficult decision, but, when someone has confidence that there is help with initial health care for the child, with nutrition for the child, that you are not alone, a mother will keep her child.  When you are told that you are on your own, you are a "welfare queen," when government policies are more concerned about the child in the womb than the child after birth, mothers choose not to bring that child into this world.  It's sad but true.  The data is there.

Answer 6

Appointed Alito and Roberts.

Answer 7

I think the ultimate goal is to overturn Roe vs Wade....they could do that by nominating other Supreme Court Justices that have a Conservative stance..  There are a few Justices that are over 70, there's a good chance that one might die in the next few years...or even sooner so if they win this election, they might get the chance to nominate a Conservative Judge that will try to overturn Roe v Wade.  We have to make sure that they won't be able to do this,  We really don't need a Conservative supreme court because those nominations are for life.  It would put womens rights back at least 50yrs.

Answer 8

That's a very good point, but I thank goodness that these nutso wannabe theocrats haven't managed to return us to the days of women dying because of abortion needing to be hidden.  

Answer 9

What are they going to do? Protest? Picket? make a lot of laws that people will break?

The Catholic Church could not stop abortion and they had 2,000 years

Answer 10

The people who vote for them should wake up and smell the coffee. The Republicans are the party that's supposed to be anti-abortion and yet you correctly point out that after eight years nothing has changed. Also, they are supposed to be the party which is fiscally conservative and there again they have spent like drunken sailors and the U.S. economy is a basket case.  

Answer 11

They have been abiding by the law.  Abortion, while an abomination, is such a small deal.  It is used by the politicians on both sides of that fence as a means to be divisive.  Americans have a flash in the pan existence and their memory is just about equally as short.

I vote for McCain who prefaces just about every answer with a story about being a POW, because I am against more social programs that teach nothing and only serve to enslave the masses.  I am also pro civil rights, which is something that the democrats have historically always been against.

Isn't it interesting that Abortion was first made available in this country by the Democrats as a means of controlling the birth rate of minorities?  Thank You Margaret Sanger.

Voting in support of such dubious  organization is unconscionable.