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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo
but why would you want to give someone with those ridiculously backwards ideas about rape and gender roles power? even if the democrats aren't great, it's certainly the lesser of two evils, isn't it?
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I don't think Romney personally really cares that much about the issue. Others do, yes. I think he's playing to the party line, and if he were elected there wouldn't be some huge push to roll back the social structure of the US above dealing with other issues (now, it could say something about him that he is willing to be that malleable to garner support, but hey - he's a politician). I also think that there are enough checks that even if there was such a push, it wouldn't get very far.
I also don't believe that the underlying issue - "terminating would-be life is wrong" - is necessarily "ridiculously backwards." How that is extended and in some cases distorted, perhaps. But in its simplest terms, "killing babies is bad", is not
ridiculous.
(Of course, "raping is bad" is pretty simple and obvious, and some people have trouble understanding this, too. There are no winners in these cases.)