I'm here to broker a deal with "Abortion Voters"

Being from Oklahoma, I know lots of people who vote with only abortion on their mind. That's the only issue they care about.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that it's absurd to boil down a system of government to this one issue, and I agree with you, but that's their prerogative.

Alas, I am here to broker a deal. I would be willing to compromise on the abortion debate.

1. Stop fighting attempts to have sex education in schools.

The idea that the Republican Majority has been so apoplectic about abortion while at the same time doing everything they can to kill any form of sex education in schools tells me that this is more about politics than life. It seems to me that if it were really about life, then anything that would reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies would be something to celebrate.

2. Stop trying to kill Head Start and School Lunch Programs.

Women who finds themselves unexpectedly in the role of mother often need assistance. Head Start works. School Lunch programs are necessary. The more we can do to assure success in education, the better off society will be as a whole.

3. Universal Health Care

Prenatal Care. Dental Care. Prescription Drugs. Making sure that people know that these service are available to their children will take so much of the struggle out of raising children. Not to mention, that with universal health care every woman in this country could afford to go to the doctor and be on birth control is she so chose.

4. End your opposition to gay adoption.

If abortion is the only thing you care about, then adoption is preferable. A home with two loving parents is preferable to being aborted, right? The absurd notion that you will condemn abortion as a "holocaust of the unborn" yet you oppose letting responsible loving potential parents adopt children is disgustingly hypocritical.

Let's just start there. Let's work together to end abortion. If abortion is the great evil that is you claim it is... If this issue is about saving the "lives" of these fetuses, then surely you will be willing to accept this deal...

If not, abortion is just a pawn in your political game, and I am getting very tired of playing.

Your move, fundies.

-The Oklahoma Hippy