My Choice

The choice that will face us at the polls tomorrow is not a palatable one for me.  I will be with great disappointment that I cast my vote.

There is much that could be said about why I don't want to vote for Mitt Romney and how I wish that we had a different candidate on the Republican ticket, but I am trying to focus instead on why I do intend to vote for him tomorrow.

It all comes down to choice...or rather, life.  Budgets, foreign policy, and healthcare take a backseat to what is the most important issue of this - or any - election.  President Obama is solidly in favor of a woman's "right to choose."  To choose what?  To choose whether a child that she has conceived should live or die.

Mitt Romney's position on abortion isn't perfect.  I don't agree with his exceptions in the case of rape, incest, or the health of the mother.  Killing a baby is killing a baby no matter how that baby is conceived.  But he obviously values life.  

And I will cast my vote on the side of life every time.  There really is no other choice.

Edited to clarify:  For me this isn't a choice of whether to vote for Obama or Romney.  It's a choice of whether to vote for Romney or a third party candidate who values life as well as liberty and more limited (much more limited!) government.  If this election weren't so close, I would almost certainly cast my vote for a third party candidate whose views more closely resemble my own.  But when there is a close race like this one (especially when it's a close race in my own state), I'll choose the major party candidate who values life. Having re-read my post, I think maybe I didn't make that clear.