My thoughts on the abortion issue...

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14. Basically agree...

I am glad that my original post has sparked so much discussion on this subject. I think it's always a good thing to talk things out.

Major Nikon, I absolutely agree with everything you said, EXCEPT when you said Bill Clinton's comment that abortion should be "safe legal and RARE" is nonsense. In the first place, when the former president said that, he was trying to show the abortion opponents that there is a way for their concerns to be met and for the concerns of people on the side of reproductive freedom to be met at the same time. In the second place, I've always thought that abortion is the worst possible method of birth control. It's the only one that's post-conception. All the other methods of birth control are pre-conception. Well, except for the morning-after pill. All of those pre-conception methods of birth control have so much less potential to be messy, and they have the added benefit of addressing the problem of an unintended and inconvenient pregnancy even before it becomes a problem. Which is why it should appeal to the anti-abortion people, if "saving babies" really were what they're all about. But that's not what they're about, as I said. "Saving babies" is their spoken goal, but what they're really all about is their unspoken goal of keeping people from having sex. And that's why they oppose family planning and contraception. Abortion should be the LAST option when facing an unintended pregnancy. You seem to be promoting it almost as a FIRST option.

-- Ron