Giuliani vs. Clinton and Being Pro-Life
Justin Taylor's blog Between Two Worlds addresses the dilemma many of us face in this post from a week ago.
As a pro-life Christian 1) does my vote for a GOP candidate who doesn't get it encourage the party to abandon its principles and thereby lose any voice in the protection of babies, and 2) does a non-vote or a third-party vote ensure the election of a Clinton who will eagerly perpetuate the culture of death? Probably both. And such is the dilemma if Rudy is the only "electable" candidate on his side. Taylor writes:
It is a valid, legitimate point that if the Republicans nominate a pro-choice candidate, then this precedence[sic] opens the door for the nomination of pro-choice Republican candidates in the future.And...
One must recognize that if it comes down to Giuliani vs. Clinton, a vote for a third-party candidate will undoubtedly guarantee a Clinton presidency (likely for the next eight years). Read that sentence again. Now read it one more time. I think it's incontrovertible, and I'm not sure some pro-lifers have sufficiently recognized this.And this summary...
At the end of the day, perhaps we can categorize the two positions as (1) principled pro-life purity and (2) principled pro-life pragmatism.I suppose we have a few months to pray/work for better GOP candidate, and a year to ponder what to do if we don't get one.
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I don't necessarily find Rudy more electable than any of the other GOP candidates but with that said I'd easily cast a vote for him in favor of more Clinton nonsense. It might set a bad precedent for Republican candidates but the alternative is far worse.
The era of trying to end abortion through primarily political means is probably coming to an end (not that we should stop trying). What will end it is simply science which is increasingly on the pro-life side. With the technology we have available to us to actually chronicle the early stages of life you'd have either be a) an imbecile or b) an evil person on the level of a Nazi concentration camp warden to find abortion acceptable.
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