Posted by
Michael on Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:37:38 AM
I've changed my mind on alot of different issues since the days when I was working for John Kerry's presidential campaign. One that I haven't budged on is abortion.
Ever since I learned about the different aspects of this issue as a teenager, I knew that I could never advocate for the side of the issue that thinks that terminating a pregnancy is just a morally ambivalent medical "procedure" (a phrase I find to be very disturbing). I was grilled while canvassing in 2004 about how I felt about this issue, and when the person grilling me found out I leaned pro-life he said, "What you have there is a conflict of conscience."
Because of this issue combined with the power of teacher's unions and the flirtations with Marxism within the modern political Left in America, there is no way I'll ever be able to go back. Friends have told me many times that I'm at my core a liberal, and they may very well be right, but to me being a liberal doesn't involve endorsing the termination of life that hasn't had the chance to grow.