Lincoln and Abortion Debate

I am 17, and currently enrolled in an advance placement American history course at San Clemente High School. Earlier in this course we examined Abraham Lincoln and his accomplishments as a Republican leader. Being a Republican myself, I am continually interested in the party’s representation.

I assent with Thomas on his view of the party’s lack of aggression in their convictions. Haley Barbour’s remark of needing our heads examined if we made abortion a test of being a Republican is an example of the deterioration and decay that awaits the party if his ideas continue to flourish. In the election of 1860, Lincoln was faced with the troubling issue of slavery and the wrongs it encumbered. Just as in the 1992 election, George Bush encountered the controversial debate of abortion. In both instances, the Republican leaders asserted their concessions, yet made no actual solutions to the problems.

We need Republican leaders who will succor our needs as American citizens. To take a stand now against abortion. To discover why our laws allow the police to enter people’s homes to stop parents from battering and abusing their children and then use the same force of law to guarantee the “privacy and right” of parents to grind up their babies before birth.

SHAWNA TAYLOR

San Clemente