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Fanfan, abortion is one of those "lightning rod" issues that seems to bring out the worst in people- I lump it in to the "doper/gay/abortion WarZ!" category-- a subject that while I certainly have hard opinions on, I observe much, and comment little.

Below the "HR line" ( html for Horizontal Rule, a strike line ) I will copy a couple of my writings at Free Dominion on the subject, but I will say this:

If, you believe as I do that a baby is not a "fetus," or a diseased appendix, or an infected tonsil, then you have to believe that abortion is an evil, ugly thing at best.

That said, like many older people, I've been hungry, alone, and desperate- I certainly can sympathize with women who feel like they have no other choice.

But the current practice of far too many women of using abortion as a kind of retroactive birth control an awful one- besides killing the innocent and defenseless, it demeans them, as well. How do you tell the children you did not abort "what I did to your brother or sister?"

I have always thought Roe V. Wade was a bad law- there's no "right" to abortion in any copy of the Constitution I've read- maybe made for good reasons ( I really do no want to see criminal abortions brought back in to law. ) but it has had "unintended consequences"-- like the 50 million Americans we don't have as customers, husbands & wives, and citizens.

With no further ado, my old comments:

Abortion is a great evil... once, long ago, most women seemed to know this,

and now, it seems few do. To change society back to this, we need to educate,

and change hardened hearts back...

A few weeks after I joined Free Republic,

I chanced upon a discussion about abortion that, for some reason, had turned

into an exchange involving mostly female members of the board.

I was struck

by several salient points:

First, the most telling question from the little ones:

"Mommy, what's an

'abortion?'"
I can recall being in my teens before I ever heard the nasty

word- but our women here reported that their children as young as 5 or 6 years

were asking it... if this is "progress," please count me out.

Then there

were the childrens reactions- universal disgust and horror that "any Mommy

could do that to her baby..."

But for me, the clincher was a brief

exchange between two other women members-- they were talking about what their

children remembered when they were in their wombs... FReeper "bootless" had

asked her toddler
( who, she said, was not really talking yet- about 2

years old- "just babbles... )
she asked him:

"Do you remember what it was

like being in Mommy's tummy?"

His answer chilled me to the bone, and still

makes my hair stand on end. His reply?

"Wet..."

Education, is the key:

Bringing

Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND)

FYI, and FWIW, virtually all the founders of the Women's Movement... were against abortion:

http://www.rightgrrl.com/wquotes.html
Some Women's Quotes Regarding Abortion
Past and Present