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The Abortion Problem for Republicans and its ONLY Honest Solution

@AmmonEBundy

Democrats are laughing at us on the right, ever since the overturning of Roe v Wade. I don't blame them, and I don't take offense.

https://twitter.com/RealABundy/status/1579900486592757760

2) The problem is quite simple to identify. Since 1972, we on the right have vastly more than not, gotten the entire question of abortion wrong. The label 'pro-life' isn't bad, but it misses the key issues by the proverbial country mile, the American mile. I'll list them next...

3) The first problem is that we're NOT merely pro-life. And who isn't? We're in favor of, we believe in the RIGHT to life. This has far too often been missed.

Second, we have more than not missed the basic question of when life starts, and when human rights imbue.

4) Apologies to you who, like @RealABundy, got both of the challenges right all along. There are many of you. But, you have NOT had the loudest voices on topic. What's more - and I'll share a bit of my own story below - I assure you until recently I didn't get it right, either.

5) We won't get into it now, but there is even the challenge of the questions of natural rights, divinely granted rights, and their intersection. The bottom line there, though, is that from any angle the FIRST right is to life itself. How do you, how does anyone dispute that?

6) In my experience, going back decades, it has been the Catholic church which, more strongly and loudly than anyone, has proclaimed that life begins at conception and must, from that moment forward, be protected. One of my own hurdles was simply admitting they are right.

7) I don't know the history of the pro-life movement, nor its details. I don't know who, in addition to the Catholic church, really got this right, who got it wrong, etc. What I do know is this. The Republican Party did NOT get it right, and does not have it right yet.

8) Part of my own story on point is that I started out as a 100% pro-choice man. I believed in a woman's reproductive rights - her body, her choice - and had almost no question about that.

9) So here's a huge component of what Republicans have always gotten wrong. We surrendered the argument by simply NOT saying, no, the body in question is NOT the mother's body, it is the baby's body. Murder of a baby cannot be a mother's right. There is no right to murder.

10) Along those lines, the oft cited complexities simply take away from the clarity of the issue. We cannot remedy a rape by killing its resulting baby. I am in favor of corporal punishment for rapists. But how do we allow corporal punishment of the innocent baby?

11) We simply got the morality completely wrong, giving the moral high ground away, where there was no high ground on the other side to grant. That gone, it was not possible to get the legal issues straight. In direct conversation, I've pushed Ammon on point.

12) This is not a verbatim quote, but rather my characterization of his meaning. In a word, though, @RealABundy tells me there is nothing special about abortion as murder. It is simply murder, period. We need no new methods to address this terrible crime. Murder must be punished.

13) That is precisely what the Republican Party has gotten wrong. It has allowed abortion to be an acceptable as if justified. But we've been doing that with all our rights for more than 100 years now. We allow the Constitution to be shred and make excuses.

14) Before I let that go, it's even worse than excuse making. We end up agreeing with the other side against ourselves. We contradict our own stated positions. We accept the moral expedient as if it were being forced upon and we just have to agree. We have been wrong, not right.

15) Some years back, I was arguing with a fellow conservative on point, and I wrongly stated we could not define the moment life begins. My friend did not win by a moral argument. He won by science. Science denies us any other moment to select than conception.

16) I was shocked and horrified by the simple clarity of his proof. It dawned on me that I had been condoning murder. I did NOT have that perfect clarity, instantly. It sadly took me years to get to perfect clarity. I do forgive myself for that.

17) With SCOTUS having finally struck down the evil decision of Roe v Wade, as @RealABundy states in the video above, the time is now for all us to follow the ethics and the law, and get it right. He completely does. More on that below.

18) Around our nation, Republicans are struggling to catch up. It's not only for the above stated reasons, or that we've gotten it so wrong for so long. Rather, there is an underlying fundamental dishonesty in our Party that we must face and call by that name.

19) My two favorite examples are Mitt Romney and Brad Little. They are each nothing other than Democrats wearing Republican suits. They do not have a single conservative cell in their respective bodies. They speak soothing words and the audience politely applauds.

20) Why do we not heckle them? Why do we fail to stand up and shout, "You're NOT a conservative, and you're a poor excuse for a Republican!"? Why don't we reject them at the voting booth every time they show their dishonest faces?

21) Here's another part of the lie. We're always told that NO conservative could win, so therefore we must pinch our noses, vote for the candidate we're given, and keep our mouths shut. Those of you who know @RealABundy know he's the answer to that exact question.

22) Ammon's leadership is precisely right on point ethically AND legally. If you're a true conservative, I don't see how you can even support Brad Little against Ammon, at all. Ammon, as stated above, gets all this 100% right by law, also. Little? Don't make me laugh.

23) If you've followed my case, then it's easy to establish that Ammon SHOULD win. He is the right candidate, and the candidate on the side of right. You know, truth, justice, and the American way and all that. But...CAN he win?

24) I am not in possession of the data, personally, to make that call in my favored, evidence-based analytical mode. By the evidence alone - to the limited degree I have any - I simply have to beg ignorance. I do not know. I hate that, but I don't know. Still...

25) Like anyone else, I'm absolutely allowed to have an opinion, and you won't be surprised either that I do or by what my opinion is. He CAN win. In fact, I can honestly tell you that if, perish the thought, he doesn't, I'll be shocked and horrified and terribly surprised.

26) I do believe that Idaho passionately wants to keep itself whole, and in fact, to improve, to become an ever more perfect union exactly as called over our entire nation in the Constitution. As I've worked with @RealABundy, I have spoken to scores of Idahoans along the way.

27) There is one I have in mind and heart who's input tells the story best. He is an official of the Republican Party and by its bylaws, is NOT allowed to support Ammon. Yet, he was 100% open to his candidacy, even after Ammon left the Party. Here below is what he told me...

28) "Every election we vote in Republicans, but we always get Democrat government." That is a verbatim quote. and it tells you precisely how we have lost the debate on abortion these decades since 1972.

29) Let's close out now with @RealABundy'a challenge to us, to imagine an Idaho where the Constitutions of both America and Idaho are adhered to. Imagine the peace and prosperity, the security that true Rule of Law will provide. Imagine all children, born and unborn, made safe.

30) Imagine further that that Idaho sets an example for the rest of our great nation and the world. If we make that happen in November, we will always look back with a combination of pride and relief. Change occurred. We were there. We made it happen.