John McCain: The Pro-Life Candidate

<I>"I believe the noblest words ever written are that all of us are created equal and endowed by our Creator by certain unalienable rights. Among these are life; life is the life of the child waiting to be born and of the born -- that's what human rights are about."</I> John McCain, August 18, 2008<br /> <br /> I was a late comer to the pro-life movement. I never believed that abortion was right, but I bought into the line of "we shouldn't tell other people what to do with their bodies." I know it seems so lame now, as I am very close to my 49th birthday. The day I had the first sonogram of my daughter, Suzanne, was the day I realized I was wrong about abortion and was thankful I had never had to make that "choice." The site of that bright beating heat in the middle of the grainy picture converted me in more ways than one.<br /> <br /> John McCain has been pro-life for his entire career. He's dealt with the difficulties in the fringes of the movement -- whether to allow exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother (he supports that), or whether to support embryonic stem cell research, which he and Nancy Reagan do. He is sure, however, that advances in medicine and skin stem cells will make the debate over embryonic stem cell research moot. He has voted at every opportunity to limit abortions, and he is more pro-life today than ever.<br /> <br /> I sat down with John McCain on Monday in Atlanta, and we talked about a wide range of issues.<br /> <br /> After the McCain home run at the "Saddleback Showdown" on Saturday night, McCain was at ease while expounding on his views on life. He gave one of the strongest and most moving statements of commitment to that idea that I have ever heard by saying, "Life is the life of the child waiting to be born, and of the born

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