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Akin should step aside; life should be protected
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Aug. 30, 2012 1:27 pm
Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri would do the GOP and our nation a great favor if he quit his Senate race.
Every pro-life politician should have an answer to the “rape” question.
Not only do we have a woman who has been traumatized and victimized, but now we have a second human life to either protect or kill. I believe that life should be protected from conception to natural death. Our Declaration of Independence uses like language, which says we are endowed by our creator to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If the courts ever decided that the unborn were people, the Roe vs. Wade decision would be put aside.
John Stiegelmeyer
Vinton
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