Correspondence
Correspondence GIULIANI ON ABORTION I HAVE LONG THOUGHT about what a pro-choice presidential candidate would have to do to have a solid chance of earning the votes of pro-lifers, and I don’t...
...Republicans have far more intellectual capital and—for six years—had political power but accomplished little that will endure...
...Allen wrote that many Americans “who are morally repulsed by abortion do not believe that women should be restrained by law from choosing it...
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...ROBERT STRONG Glencoe, Ill...
...Do I believe women (and young girls) should be restrained by law from choosing to kill their offspring...
...While reiterating that he is personally pro-choice, he could explain that the Supreme Court’s intervention in the issue has not been good for anybody...
...Correspondence GIULIANI ON ABORTION I HAVE LONG THOUGHT about what a pro-choice presidential candidate would have to do to have a solid chance of earning the votes of pro-lifers, and I don’t think that Fred Barnes’s suggestion to Rudy Giuliani (“The Speech He Needs to Give,” October 22) is the right one...
...ALICE GRIFFIN New York, N.Y...
...Thompson is the Republicans’ best hope for winning the national election...
...DEPICTING DEATH CHARLOTTE ALLEN did a great service exposing how Planned Parenthood, the taxpayer-funded abortion provider, covers up sexual abuse of young girls in its supposed defense of “women’s rights” (“Planned Parenthood’s Unseemly Empire,” October 22...
...Such a substantive commitment by Giuliani would do much more to win the votes of pro-lifers than his tired statements about appointing “strict constructionists” to the Supreme Court...
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...CYNTHIA MASSEY Helotes, Tex...
...And these aren’t the observations of someone who gushes over a man simply because he has a southern drawl...
...CORRECTION AN ARTICLE in the November 5 issue (“Awakenings” by Wesley Smith) mistakenly stated that John Edwards was in the Senate, and Barack Obama was not, when the Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill to save the life of Terri Schiavo...
...FRANK T. PIMENTEL Herndon, Va...
...Nowhere does Allen describe that choice for what it is: the deliberate and barbaric destruction of an unborn child, often hacked piece by tiny piece before its little body parts are yanked from its mother’s womb...
...I’m a black registered Democrat New Yorker who voted for Bush twice...
...It has poisoned our judicial confi rmation process, and it has strangled the rightful expectations of the people in the several states from regulating abortion as they see fi t. The citizens of Mississippi and New York may well have very different ideas on what ought to be legal or not regarding abortion, and the Court ought to respect those differences...
...THOMPSON’S CHARISMA STEPHEN HAYES’s article on Fred Thompson’s first debate appearance (“Fred Doesn’t Flop,” October 22) neglects Thompson’s personal qualities that deeply resonate with the American people...
...Edwards’s term in the Senate ended in January 2005, the same time Obama took offi ce...
...The vote was that March...
...Rather than merely pledging to uphold current federal funding restrictions on abortion and promising to sign “reasonable legislation” to “reduce the number of abortions,” as Barnes suggests, Giuliani ought to stake out a principled federalist opposition to Roe v. Wade...
...All letters should be addressed: Correspondence Editor THE WEEKLY STANDARD 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505 Washington, DC 20036...
...His charisma is not like that of Bill Clinton (i.e., self-absorbed), but like that of Reagan, giving the assurance of stability, decency, and maturity...
...You bet I do...
...I was frustrated, however, by her decision to use euphemistic language often employed by abortion supporters in an apparent attempt to sound “reasonable...
...Letters will be edited for length and clarity and must include the writer’s name, address, and phone number...
...We love Fred Thompson for the same reason we adore John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart...
...BIPARTISAN STUPIDITY WHILE I AGREE with James W. Ceaser’s characterization of the “Leftward-Ho” Democrats as a “stupid party” without ideas (“The Stupid Party,” October 22), you should also have included a goofy looking elephant on your cover...
...With free-spending in Congress, little party unity on major issues, and the most inarticulate president since Dwight Eisenhower, the Republicans also merit a “stupid party” prize in my book...
...And if journalists had the courage to depict abortion for what it really is, a solid majority of Americans would agree...
Vol. 13 • November 2007 • No. 9
