Abortion has nothing to do with women's rights. Murder is not a right.
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Xel2006-08-22 4:12
Last time I checked, procreation is the basis, no the actual goal of the human psyche. In a materialistic, sexualized country like America, people are going to have sex, it is a CONSTANT, not a variable, that can only be tampered with slightly. Drugs are a constant caused by many factors, and so is sex. When the right makes birth control harder to get to and say how abstinence is the key or else there will be STDs and whatnot, they presume it will have a dettering effect. Well, virginity pledges, the crusade on drugs and the Death Penalty was supposed to have that too. That worked out just swell! All those people in Africa are doing MINSTREL dancing of moral joy now that organisations that provide birth control and abortions are off America's foreign aid list! Sex will always be there, and the right is, as usual, making the results of this constant more negative and then blames it on Hollywood, feminism, secularism, i.e. the people. Americans are very stubborn; they started drinking despite all the ensuing social and medical problems simply in order to spite the government during the prohibition. They aren't consciously giving the finger to the government while fucking, but I believe the same sub-conscious factor applies.
Also, the government can't protect a woman's liberty and the baby's life at the same time, and the women outnumber the babies, resulting in a utilitarian choice (kill one dude, nine walk away or my execution squad will kill all ten) that I have already made. There is no agreed limit to when life starts, considering the many many parameters biologists use to evaluate life. If a fetus lacks some or many organic and biochemical facilities, it can not be classified as HUMAN life, or even life at all and limiting abortions then would mean valuing a technical animal (also a potential human if you consider that even a cat has the same biochemical foundation as us) over a living human being who will be mistreated by employers and financially disrupted once the child is born. You do not have the expertise to say when HUMAN life is cast-iron, but this means that I have pushed down the limit for abortions - from the onset of personhood to the onset of HUMAN life. That backfired on you.
America is not ready for single mothers now, and the influx that would result of a nation-wide ban would harm the economy. I've proven that a ban of abortions raise crime, so I still have the utilitarian edge. Then there is the fact that SD has banned abortions ENTIRELY, a breach of liberty and an all-or-nothing choice that will only make me more convinced that adequately sensible and compromising people like Anonymous are a minority of his side. If a victory for the pro-lifers means a situation like that for all America's women, then I will resort to protesting, extremism and, eventually, direct lethal force. The possibility of a nation-wide ban would force me to use my armaments against anybody who works to make that a reality; it would be like fighting off an invading, foreign force.