Republicans seem to think Roe vs Wade is something to talk about during election time. Women represent more than half the USA's population. I think many women, no matter how they vote, don't want a return to the dark ages of illegal, or self-abortions. May I remind these high-minded politicians that they know of someone who died in such a manner. And, will these same politicians be willing to pay for the Homes for Unwed Mothers that were still in existence in 1970's?

I wonder why McCain decided to stick his hoof in his mouth? It seems like he'd be smarter to just state his opposition to abortion and be done with it. Oh well, it can only help Sam Brownback. That's good for conservatives.

Because McCain and Brownback are trying to rein in the Christian conservative right-wing votes, which in their respective states of Arizona
and Kansas are as rabid aboutpro-life as the Bible Belt states.
Don't tell me they are protecting women. Women have rights to their own
bodies and government has no right to
say they MUST carry a child to term!

Yes, we republicans do think that Roe Vs. Wade is something to talk about during election time. Just as the US has made, then changed, other laws, it, too, can be overturned again. Since when is the protection of life a "return to the dark ages?" I rather think it's the reverse. If you don't want to carry a baby (and isn't it interesting that you did call it a "child?") to term, then don't have sex. Be responsible. And grow up. Life is never certain. Ask the hundreds of women who desperately want to be mothers and are unable to do that, who would give just about anything to adopt a child, babies which no longer exist in "homes for unwed mothers." All of life is about giving and serving others. Think about it.

We should make sex education and contraceptives readily available. In this day and age, there is no reason to use abortion as birth control.

I believe that women have the right to make decisons concerning their own bodies, but when they are carrying a child, it is not just "their" bodies that are being affected. Abortion is murder, any way you look at it.

I disagree with McCain's proposed changes. If a person is raped or a victim of incest, killing the resulting child doesn't make the horror go away...it just adds to it. If considering a woman's health is written in, there will be doctors ready and waiting to say that the child is a health risk.

This generation's culture of death has not departed from "The Dark Ages". We are living them. Abortion is sympomatic of our lack of compassion for others. Hate, sexual perversion, violence, divorce and cohabitation, greed, denial of God and HIS ordinances are attacked daily as an anachronism; the idolatry of the twenty-first century is horrific. Justice demands personal responsible behavior.