Issues

After watching the major speeches of Edward Kennedy and Michelle Obama last night I felt inspired by their rhetoric, especially knowing this might be the last Democratic Convention if not the last year for Ted Kenndy. Michelle Obama demonstrated herself to be a liberated, highly educated, highly articulate and a woman given to useful volunteerism out of a belief in the values of her country. She would be an asset not only to America but to the whole world as First Lady of the United States.

Though in 2000 I might have voted for John McCain because of his independant nature then, when I heard him say that every Supreme Court Justice that supports Roe V. Wade should go I realized right then that he would undo all the rights of women to choose how to live their lives and decide their futures and send us back to the dark ages when I grew up with thousands and millions of women dying by coathanger once again having no say what happened to them, especially if they got pregnant accidentally.

This one issue decided me that the U.S. and the world could not survive McCain if he moves the supreme court against Roe V. Wade.

http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2008/01/17/index.html

"In 2005, the U.S. abortion rate declined to 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44, continuing the downward trend that started after the abortion rate peaked at 29.3 in 1981, according to a new Guttmacher Institute census of U.S. abortion providers. The abortion rate is now at its lowest level since 1974."

Under Obama as President, he also promised to find ways to reduce abortions even further through education and expanded birth control.

Though I don't like the idea of abortion, I met young people driven crazy by abusive parents that should have been aborted in the 1950s and 1960s. I watched them harm many people including me. Most of these completely unwanted children are not born now only to be abused and turned into criminals and worse today in the United States.