Abortion: Conservatives vs. the Others

Abortion: Conservatives vs. the Others

For those unaware, conservatives are far from perfect.

If proof were needed for that statement, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford provided it in spades when he chucked wife, family, office, and self-respect to go trotting off to South America to hook up with his Argentinian bimbo, Maria Belen Chapur.

However, Sanford’s excursions prove absolutely nothing with regard to conservatives in America aside from verifying that males of our human species–conservative, liberal, “moderate,” “progressive,” or homosexual–are imperfect and have a propensity to stray.

What is also indisputable is that true conservatives have an inviolable respect for life, for the societal necessity to recognize that protecting and preserving any and every stage of life as basic to civilized society, that to ignore or trample on that essential and obvious truth is to ignore and trample on that which distinguishes humans from beasts of the jungle.

That prevalent pro-life sentiment among conservatives doesn’t necessarily make them better people and doesn’t reflect a “holier than thou” attitude. It simply reflects a concern for the nature of society and the utter collapse of society’s value systems.

Any society is rightfully judged by how it treats the weakest in its midst, . . .
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