[Alpines] legitimate rape - round 2

[awtiger at cox.net]

...and this has to do with Alpines how???

Andy Walker
Edmond, OK

---- Allan Ballard <aballard at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> G.O.P. Approves Strict Anti-Abortion Language in Party Platform
>
> By MICHAEL COOPER
>
> Even as the Republican establishment continued to call for
> Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to drop out of his Senate race
> because of his comments on rape and abortion, Republicans approved
> platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment
> outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
>
> The anti-abortion plank, approved by the Republican platform committee
> Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla., was similar to the planks Republicans
> have included in their recent party platforms, which also called for a
> constitutional ban on abortions. The full convention is set to vote on
> the partys platform on Monday.
>
> While Republican officials stressed that the plank did not go into
> granular details, saying that they were better left to the states, the
> language of the plank seems to leave little room for exceptions to the
> abortion ban. It states that the unborn child has a fundamental
> individual right to life which cannot be infringed.
>
> Faithful to the self-evident truths enshrined in the Declaration of
> Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the
> unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be
> infringed, said the draft platform language approved Tuesday, which was
> first reported by CNN. We support a human life amendment to the
> Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth
> Amendments protections apply to unborn children.
>
> The timing of the approval of the Republican anti-abortion plank was
> awkward for Mitt Romney, who has denounced Mr. Akins comments about
> rape and abortion and who has said that he supports exceptions to allow
> abortions in cases of rape. And it comes as his selection of his running
> mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, was already drawing
> scrutiny for his support for a more absolute ban on abortions, even in
> cases of rape or incest.
>
> But Mr. Romney would hardly be the first Republican nominee at odds with
> his partys more absolute opposition to abortion. Just four years ago,
> the Republican Party adopted a platform with a similar plank seeking an
> unconditional ban on abortion, even though its nominee, Senator John
> McCain of Arizona, had urged the party in the past to allow certain
> exceptions. George W. Bush also supported outlawing abortion except in
> cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the pregnant woman was in
danger.
>
> After this years abortion plank language was approved with little
> debate, the chairman of the platform committee, Gov. Bob McDonnell of
> Virginia, praised the committee for affirming our respect for human
> life and for doing so expeditiously.
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