Am I a One Issue Voter?

Abortion is an issue I personally have a very strong stance on. With the upcoming elections, I think this topic will come to the forefront again in the media. So how now shall we vote? Many people are up in arms that people would not vote for a candidate simply because he is pro-choice. John Piper offers an interesting article supporting being a single issue voter.

"No endorsement of any single issue qualifies a person to hold public office. Being pro-life does not make a person a good governor, mayor, or president. But there are numerous single issues that disqualify a person from public office. For example, any candidate who endorsed bribery as a form of government efficiency would be disqualified, no matter what his party or platform was."

"So it is with politics. You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery would disqualify him—except that child-killing is more serious than those." Read the whole John Piper article.

Apologetics.com recently ran a podcast with this tag line--Right now America is up in arms about cruelty to animals but relatively quiet about the murder of its own unborn children. How did this state of affairs come about? Why are they not, at least, regarded with equal moral indignation and abhorrence? Listen to apologetics.com podcast on abortion for a relevant discussion on abortion and reproductive issues.

So what is all the abortion fuss about? Let me leave you with a description of the abortion methods out there today. Suction aspiration is a method used during the first 12 weeks where a hollow tube with knife-edged tip is inserted into the womb and rips apart the fetus and placenta and sucks it out into a bottle that is discarded.

The Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) inserts a pair of forceps into the womb to grasp the fetus and twists it until the bones are broken, skull crushed and spine snapped to remove the unborn child.

Saline Injection inserts a long needle into the womb which poisons the baby and burns off the outer layer of skin then labor sets in and the mother aborts the dead baby.

Lastly a partial birth abortion-the baby's legs are pulled into the birth canal and the baby is delivered except for the head, which is cut open with scissors and the child's brains are sucked out to collapse the skull to remove the body.

Thought for the Day: In 1960 alone there were 1.6 million abortions in the United States. Since 1973 there have been over 35 million babies aborted in America. This is an average of 1.5 million abortions a year. It has been referred to as "The American Holocaust". And the debate continues - Is it all RIGHT or is it WRONG?