Originally Posted by winthrop

Many of my tax dollars have gone to kill brown people in the Middle
East in order to protect our god given right to drive Hummers around
cities with no mountains in sight.
Or put another way, so what?


The disagreement is with the definition of humanity, and whose
priorities are to be honored. A living, breathing adult has priority in
the decisions made over her own body and reproductive schedule.
When the potential human life is brought into this world, its own rights
to be sovereign over its own body begin. Not before.

Using terms such as "baby" and "innocent unborn" when referring
to a first trimester pregnancy is emotionalism, not objectivity.

Giving the State power of life and death over its living, breathing
(post-born?) citizens is more dangerous than leaving the most
personal of health decisions to an adult woman and possibly her
doctor and whoever else she may want to consult.

Conservatives, who supposedly champion the rights of the
individual over the State, should support the concept of the
State staying out of the individual's private biology, and religious
people as well should understand the danger in ceding to the State
the power supposedly reserved by God.

Unless, of course, you are saying the State is the representative
of God...in which case we have a completely different problem.

But really, let us not kid ourselves. The abortion issue was and is still
a gift to the fundraisers of the Right, who can tap the religious
community over and over using this religious, and therefore out
of the purview of government, controversy.