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By: "Pope" Myron Pauli

"Pope" Myron Pauli — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:21:44 +0000

Barbara – allowing me a brief moment to act Catholic – everyone is “pro-life” provided you get to define what “life” is. If you believe that ____ is just “protoplasm”, then you are (of course) not really a murderer. Hell, if Dred Scott was a horse, the Dred Scott decision looks perfectly reasonable – who ever heard of a horse suing for his freedom.

[Guys and gals: I’m not wading into he abortion debate, although I have my opinion. Why die on that hill? Pope Myron can match wits with the formidable Ms. Grant, in private. Barbara, btw, is also a scientist. Only the best on BAB.]

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:07:49 +0000

I believe Ilana was making the point that many who oppose abortion had no problem with our unjust, unconstitutional, and immoral Iraq invasion. She is right.

From this perspective, what meaning is there to the “culture of life” philosophy? What about all those Iraqi kids who will never be whole again because we bombed the cr** out of that country? And what about our own soldiers, some dead, some alive, some who live their lives in disability and will perhaps be forgotten, due to our “mandate” to spread “democracy”?

It doesn’t add up. I’m not quite sure what “pro-life” means. It surely didn’t apply to our actions in the Iraq War.

By: Robert Peak

Robert Peak — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:04:28 +0000

One reason that pro-lifers seek a constitutional amendment is that the “pro-choice” Supreme Court in 1973 had rendered the 10th Amendment moot with respect to abortion. Thus, the only legal option left to the pro-lifers is an all or nothing approach–the constitutional amendment on the federal level. Before Roe v Wade, the issue of abortion was left to the states to decide–as it should of been left. Had the pro-choicers left well enough alone, there would have been a good chance that liberalized abortion laws would pass in all 50 states back in the 1970s. However, because of their high-handed legal approach, the pro-choicers have knocked over a hornet nest. The only solution that will reduce the rancor is for the court to overrule Roe v Wade and return the issue of abortion back to the states to decide. Unfortunately, I do not see this happening.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:55:27 +0000

When asked by a non-Jew to relate all the Torah had to say while standing on one foot, Hillel replied, “Do not unto your neighbor what you would not have him do until you; this is the whole Law; the rest is commentary.” – Similarly, the 28 words of the 10th Amendment encapsulate LIMITED government. Even some libertarians seem to want a Galactic Libertarian Order. I am distrustful of those who advocate some rightist, leftist, or libertarian Utopia to be imposed upon all mankind by gunpoint. Understanding that government consists of a limited set of powers for the purpose of securing our rights, one does not even need “special protection” for gun owners, pot smokers, gays, Moslems, etc. Sadly, most of this country believes in Messianic government, which allows their PARTICULAR freedom while everyone else obeys their cultural preferences. On the subject of “abortion for convenience”: like Ron Paul, I am morally opposed – – but if 50% of the people consider abortion as no more repugnant than clipping a toenail, I do not see how government can “solve” that moral problem. How, for example, can government stop a morning-after pill unless government inserts transmitters inside women?