Where Liberty and Life collide . . .

While I don't think that Congressman Ron Paul is the best candidate for president (He is too prone to conspiracy theorizing, in my opinion), I appreciate that he hammered the issue of abortion during his remarks (on c-span.org) at the Ames Straw Poll. Likewise, I have little respect for Libertarians who--while priding themselves on their willingness to take unpopular but principled stands, ignore the innocent human life growing inside a woman's body when proclaiming themselves "pro-choice."

I believe this message was tailored to the rather conservative activists who vote in the Iowa GOP primaries (in fact, even Paul muddled the point a bit when straying off the script, stating: "The prime reason that government exists in a free society is to protect liberty, but also to protect life."), but in this digital age, any candidate who disingenuously made such remarks on such a stage would be more naive than disingenuous . . . so Paul deserves credit.