I appreciate that you think I'm a good person (I think you are too), but as for "brainwashed", well, all I can say is that I sincerely believe that the last 40 years of warfare between the pro-life and pro-choice "sides" hasn't saved many unborn babies. That struggle has largely taken place on the battlefield of legal rights, and that's simply no way to get folks to come together in common cause.
Elsewhere on this forum we have discussed the fundamental Rights, and in the Declaration of Independence, the first listed unalienable right is the Right to Life. Without that right, all other rights are moot. You don't need them, if it is decided it is legal to snuff someone. For now the battle is within the womb, but how long until it shifts to nursing homes and hospitals? With State-run health care, it is always easy to say that someone's treatment is too expensive, or simply not budget for the necessary equipment or personnel.
And there should be common cause - no one defends abortion, but when a legal right has existed for generations, a threat to take that right away causes folks to become angry and uncompromising and to lose sight of the larger issue - saving lives.
whoa, there, that doesn't make sense. The people doing the murdering are going to do what ? Get pissed off and kill people because they are being denied some right to kill people who have a right to live?? "Rights that existed for generations included the ius primae noctis (later known as the droit du seigneur), or perhaps the Right to own slaves, a concept known to Old Testament times and earlier.
Such concepts can be and are dispensed with because their conflict with the most basic Rights (Life, Liberty, Property) became evident as civilization developed.
I don't see the adoption of infanticide by the Courts as a step forward for Civilization.
At any rate, if you want to save lives, start with the ones being prematurely ended.
I believe that far more babies would be saved if we could all -left and right - agree to move from warfare to reconciliation. The left's preferred non-coercive solution to abortions - contraception - can save lives,
The purpose of contraception is not to save lives, but to
prevent them. Abortion is not contraception. The purpose of abortion is to end lives.
...and the right's preferred non-coercive solution to abortions - moral persuasion and support for adoption - can save lives too. Just think of the progress that could be made if half of us didn't fear and demonize the other half and its motives.
It was so-called 'progress' that guaranteed the outcome of every successful 'procedure' would be at least one dead human. You can quibble about definition all you want, but that is the end result. One less kid on the school bus, one less diploma, one less consumer/worker, one less person paying into social security, and one less person raising their own children.
