{"id":1659,"date":"2006-10-26T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:32:41","slug":"james-werner-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/james-werner-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"James Werner on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.werner4texas.com\/\">James Werner<\/span>, Libertarian candidate for Texas Governor with more and more people. Folks are interested but don&#8217;t know much about him (thanks MSM). I asked him about his thoughts on abortion since that&#8217;s a big deal to a lot of people. Here&#8217;s his answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My personal opinion is that abortion is a great tragedy&#8211;and it causes me much pain to consider it.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, the great philosophers, theologians, and thinkers of our day cannot agree among themselves at what exact moment human life begins.  Obviously, there is no consensus among Americans about this either.<br \/>\nSo it is with sadness that I have come to the conclusion that government must not interfere in this very troubling personal decision.  It has to be up to the woman and her partner.<br \/>\nHaving said that, there are reasonable restrictions that I could support.  For example, pretty much everyone agrees that a random decision to abort an 8 or 9-month fetus is not acceptable.<br \/>\nThis is ultimately a very difficult area for Libertarians.  We value the individual right to life and liberty above all else&#8211;so we struggle mightily with the question of life itself&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to reprint my stories on each of the candidates within the next week or so (all except Strayhorn who&#8217;s campaign hasn&#8217;t gotten with me at all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about James Werner, Libertarian candidate for Texas Governor with more and more people. Folks are interested but don&#8217;t know much about him (thanks MSM). I asked him about his thoughts on abortion since that&#8217;s a big deal to a lot of people. Here&#8217;s his answer: My personal opinion is that abortion is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/james-werner-on-abortion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Werner on abortion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-qL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}