I know, I'm skating on thin ice with this topic, but I need to write about it. Right now, McCain is very strongly pro-life, which, in all honesty, I respect. It's how he feels: a baby is considered human at the moment of conception. As a Jew, though, I am obligated to believe that before the embryo has been alive for forty days, it's just a clump of cells. So, like I said before, McCain has already failed.
Obama is different, though. He's got his own problems, like, say, that he believes that it's ok to have an abortion, but at the same time, it's ok to fail and let the baby die after it leaves the mother, in a linen basket. Like Harry Potter, the only difference being that, 1) Harry was born normally, and 2) Harry survived. But still, I believe, like Obama, that a women has the right to choose, for example, if she was raped, or if the baby is endangering the life of the mother, in which case, according to Halacha, it is required to kill the fetus in order to save the mother.
That's not to say, of course, that a 16-year-old girl went and had unprotected relations with a guy -- and then got pregnant -- should go and have an abortion. Abortions are not a form of birth control. We have condoms for that, folks. This is my proposal for the all high schools should give compulsory SexEd classes, and each student should be give a list of stores in the area that sell condoms and such. The problem with my plan is that private high schools are exempt from state education laws.
Right now, though, it's going to be interesting watching how the last month-and-a-half of the presidential elections shape up.
