"Abortion is important, but it's only one issue."
Robertson can't make special rules that apply only to candidate Giuliani.
In short, there goes the Presidential litmus test.
Fred Thompson was well into a prolonged dialogue about abortion on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday when he said something that stunned social conservatives: "I do not think it is a wise thing to criminalize young girls and perhaps their parents as aiders and abettors." He then went further: "You can't have a [federal] law" that "would take young, young girls . . . and say, basically, we're going to put them in jail."Those comments sent e-mails flying across the country, reflecting astonishment and rage from pro-life Republicans who had turned to Thompson as their best presidential bet for 2008.
Novak says it's a spurious issue. The problem with Novak's logic is that hundreds of years of Anglo-Saxon law have developed the concept of accessories, accomplices, and co-conspirators to a crime. (It's a very complicated topic; there's a bit here -- http://en.wikipedia....)
Analogy, albeit imperfect. Suppose I plan to rob a bank. I hire a getaway driver, and a locksmith. In such situations, American justice would penalize all three.
This is just one of the knotty problems in the whole abortion area. I don't like Thompson, but he's at least being honest about abortion not being a cut-and-dried issue. Religious scholars have argued the "when does life begin" issue for centuries. http://www.religious...
(note: author of this comment is pro-choice, and wishes the right-to-lifers would work on improving domestic and international laws regarding adoption)