Strategic Voting

There are many pro-lifers who, because they thought a less than 100% pro-life candidate was not good enough, have not voted and will not vote. This tactic has enabled pro-abortion legislators to be elected and to have a stranglehold on Illinois government.

· Are you planning to stay home on Nov. 2 because you don’t think there’s anyone you can vote for?
· Would you avoid voting for a particular candidate who does not have a “pure enough” pro-life position or pro-life vote?
· Would you ever vote for someone who is pro-abortion in order to advance the pro-life cause?

Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions? Has the thought of voting for a candidate who is not 100% pro-life bothered your conscience? While this conviction is understandable, it merits more thought.

For instance, imagine two pro-abortion candidates are facing one another in the election.
You must first study their platforms and voting records (available through Lake County Right to Life). What if one supported taxpayer funding of abortion and the other did not? A strategic vote to advance the cause of life would be to vote for the one who would not fund abortion. This would limit evil. Not voting in this race might allow the candidate who supported taxpayer funding to be elected.

The Roe v. Wade decision overturned all laws that banned or limited abortion in all 50 states. This decision then has forced us to take an incremental approach—the only way to eliminate it is by eroding it. Some candidates, while not 100% pro-life, may be very helpful in legislatively promoting this erosion process. Crucially, some of these candidates may vote to confirm a pro-life Supreme Court justice. And that my dear voters, is why John McCain should have been elected. The election was all about the Supreme Court.
There could be huge benefits for the pro-life movement in voting this way. We could see parental notification enforced, the Women’s Right to Know Act passed, common sense ultrasound legislation, father’s rights legislation, and perhaps even a vote to confirm a strict constructionist Supreme Court justice.

Strategic pro-life voting can help create the future that we seek: a society in which all human life is respected, protected and secure.


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