A Voice of Passion and Reason

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How pleased I am to see the level of engagement shown by some readers of these posts!  So I want to address for today the whole “how can you say you’re voting for Hillary Clinton and at the same time say you’re against abortion” controversy by putting up four articles by George Will, a passionate pro-life conservative with impeccable credentials who has left the Republican party, strongly condemned Trump, and said that conservatives need to just grit their teeth, get through the next four years of a Clinton presidency, and then nominate someone decent. (Sound familiar?  He’s the one who solidified the whole election issue for me.)  He has not specifically said he would vote for Clinton, but he clearly says that she’s more palatable than Trump.

He is also the father of a 41-year-old son with Down syndrome.

That article makes his pro-life stance clear, but here’s a more recent one:

“Planned Parenthood and the Barbarity of America” July 21, 2015
Takeaway line, in case you don’t get to read the whole article:  “When life begins is a scientific, not a philosophic or theological, question: Life begins when the chromosomes of the sperm fuse with those of the ovum, forming a distinctive DNA complex that controls the new organism’s growth. This growth process continues unless a natural accident interrupts it or it is ended by the sort of deliberate violence Planned Parenthood sells.”

“If Trump Is Nominated, the GOP Must Keep Him Out of the White House” April 29, 2016
Written when there was still some hope of keeping the nomination away from Trump.  Takeaway line:
“If Trump is nominated, Republicans working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party while working to see that they forgo only four years of the enjoyment of executive power.”
This statement echoes the stance of a growing number of thoughtful conservatives who realize that politics is not only the art of the possible but the art of the long view.

“Trump’s Shallowness Runs Deep” August 3, 2016
Takeaway line: “It has been well said that ‘sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.’ The Republican Party’s multicourse banquet has begun.”