An article at this blog persuades me.

John McCain is the only pro-life candidate seriously in play.  If Clinton or Obama are elected, they will likely have a turn to appoint a few judges to the Supreme Court - and they will appoint activist judges who will tighten the bulwarks against reversing Roe vs. Wade.  (How common is the knowledge that the victor in Roe vs. Wade has since decided it was wrong?)  Obama and Clinton both favor having a “choice” for partial-birth abortion - sticking a needle of poison into the skull of a baby as it is being born.

If McCain comprehends the wrong of abortion, it’s easy he may comprehend the issue of the life and survival of our nation - and of the Iraqis we have pledged to help build a new nation - a lot better than whichever Democratic opponent he’ll face.   (I say this because something I read frightened me regarding McCain’s foreign policy approach.  But his policy has to be better than Clinton’s or Obama’s.  And regarding that linked article, the landscape has changed since then - Romney has unofficially endorsed McCain as our hope toward winning the war.)  McCain can be talked to if the citizens cry loud enough.  He’s been against building a border fence, but pledged he would.  I doubt it would happen in four years, but he has to take steps.  The first would be firing one of his staff in particular.

To my mind, holding out until victory in the war hangs on the same principle of valuing all life - do we finish the job of aiding the Iraqis in establishing a new nation of independence, no matter the cost, or do we retreat and value the lives of those we began to save less than our own lives?

(How common also is the knowledge that Saddam Hussein enacted genocide on Iraqis?  Nuke questions aside, that is the main reason I supported ousting him.)

Do we value the life of a mother over her child?  Will we terminate the birth of a new nation underway?

I think I may vote for McCain.