The Arizona senator appeared caught off guard when a reporter asked whether, if his 15-year-old daughter, Meghan, became pregnant, he would tell her that she could not have an abortion.
''No,'' Mr. McCain said. ''I would discuss this issue with Cindy and Meghan, and this would be a private decision that we would share within our family. Obviously I would encourage her to know that that baby would be brought up in a warm loving family. The final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel, and I think that's such a private matter.''
“Family Conference” if daughter wanted an abortion
KEYES [to McCain]: What you would say if your daughter was ever in a position where she might need an abortion? You answered [earlier today] that the choice would be up to her and then that you’d have a family conference. That displayed a profound lack of understanding of the basic issue of principle involved in abortion. After all, if your daughter said she was contemplating killing her grandmother for the inheritance, you wouldn’t say, “Let’s have a family conference.” You’d look at her and say “Just Say No,“ because that is morally wrong. It is God’s choice that that child is in the womb. And for us to usurp that choice in contradiction of our declaration of principles is just as wrong.
McCAIN: I am proud of my pro-life record in public life, and I will continue to maintain it. I will not draw my children into this discussion. As a leader of a pro-life party with a pro-life position, I will persuade young Americans [to] understand the importance of the preservation of the rights of the unborn.
Source: (X-ref from Keyes) GOP Debate in Manchester NH Jan 26, 2000
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I'm not drinking any Koolaid and I'm not discerning any hearts. It's not my election to vote... those first two quotes though, I didn't see some big waffle... just didn't see it.
If someone asked me the same question, I could say the same thing and not feel badly about it.
(if I were going to set up an alter ego, I'd change the tenor of my posting style as well
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Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
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