Anything that makes human life fall short of its potential is abortive.

[patrice]

Who is to say that the cumulative loss of many "small" individual potentials does not, in fact, add up to things such as: poverty, abortions, fatal childhood cancers, natural miscarriages, fatal cases of child abuse, gross brith deformaties, increases in unintended pregnancies . . . . not to mention larger aggregations of lost human resources.

Thus, Unending War, Free Market Mysticism, lack of appropriate and comprehensive Health Care, and Religious Fascism ARE Abortifacients and in their widespread support we see that there are NO Abortion Opponents and we are only quibbling over who draws the line.

[Demeter]

1. Clever Argument

Way over the heads, though. The anti-women will never get it.

[patrice]

2. If Human Life is somehow Sacred, that which makes it Human is Sacred.

Two things, I can think of, make us Human: Freedom and Potential, violate either one of those and whatever it is that makes us so special, so special as to exclude any possibility of Abortion, is negated because you've already aborted the Humanity.

I'm an Old (fallen) Catholic; the line of reasoning about why Human Life is Sacred is derived from what used to be taught, in Catholic highschools, of the teachings of Cardinal Bernardin (Seamless Cloak of Life) recently mentioned by Our President at Notre Dame.

[patrice]

3. Ergo, that which denies the Oppresive That-Which-to-Oppress is an act of Conscience.