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What other election issue is there?

OK, I guess I should write something on the upcoming election.....For me, personally...well I do have an opinion. As I am Catholic and practicing, I must vote my conscience, which means that the most important issue that will determine my vote is which candidate values life. I know, I know, most people I hear, say that it shouldn't come down to one issue. But for me it does. Without life, the other issues simply aren't issues. If we don't have life, we don't have disabled children to help. If we don't have life, we don't have our elderly who depend on us to not pull that plug. If we don't have life, we have nothing.

It can be so discouraging to hear people will vote for Obama, when the man has always supported a culture of death. I know McCain doesn't have a perfect Pro-life record, but at least he's almost there, and you never know, with God all things are possible, change can happen, though I don't believe it will for Obama. There seems to be so much anger on the left, so much bitterness, so much hatred. Often times their aggressive anger is scary....how good people can have so much hate.

Then it occurred to me. Perhaps if McCain gets in, with his Prolife Palin, appointing Pro Life judges in the next few years...Roe Vs Wade could be overturned. Then what? All the women who have had an abortion(s), will then be faced with the truth of their decision. It was wrong. Now I have compassion for these women....to do something so contrary to our nature as women, shows the desperation, despair and loneliness they must have been enduring.... However, should this law be changed and abortions made illegal, how will these women deal?

I am convinced women who have had abortions with no remorse, are the same women who are so strongly Pro Obama. It seems with their vote, they are screaming...."Tell me what I did wasn't wrong." Yes, I said no remorse, and my quote seems to contradict.....It's the difference between what's in their head and what's in their heart. Any mother knows, a child in her womb no matter the size, is still their child. These women, how I feel such compassion for, how they must be broken inside somewhere.

Our prayers for the Pro Life Movement aren't only for the unborn, they are for the mothers who are experiencing these terrible effects of this legalized crime.

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