Dump Roe v. Wade...
Having just completed the Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee, Stephen Alito, don't you think that it is about time we dispensed with the number one political problem facing the United States of America??
I, of course, am talking about the phony argument between pro-life and pro-choice. I believe that most everybody is pro-life and that the real concern is about pro-choice, as in abortion. But, there is another way to describe the difference between the sides.
We are really arguing about when life begins, with the pro-life people believing that life begins at conception. Now my experience indicates that this is a religiously derived belief. I say that because I learned through secular means that life began at birth, which seems consistent with society's actions like recording birth dates and celebrating birthdays.
Of course, I see the argument as a group of people that want to shove their religious beliefs on me and others like me. And, while I don't see my viewpoint as being religious, I can accept that others might consider it to be just as religious as pro-life.
If we accept the above, then we have a group of people that believe the life begins zero (0) days after conception and another group the believes that life begins approximately 270 days after conception.
It's my understanding that present abortion restrictions have something to do with viability of the fetus so that limitations are imposed if the fetus could survive outside the mother's womb.
Let's decide, via a periodic vote, the Politically Acceptable Birthdate, PAB and add it to our laws that allow abortion of fetuses younger than PAB.
The law should also provide for update of the PAB (maybe every four years) and should define limits for acceptable campaign behavior between elections.
Doug Skoglund
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I, of course, am talking about the phony argument between pro-life and pro-choice. I believe that most everybody is pro-life and that the real concern is about pro-choice, as in abortion. But, there is another way to describe the difference between the sides.
We are really arguing about when life begins, with the pro-life people believing that life begins at conception. Now my experience indicates that this is a religiously derived belief. I say that because I learned through secular means that life began at birth, which seems consistent with society's actions like recording birth dates and celebrating birthdays.
Of course, I see the argument as a group of people that want to shove their religious beliefs on me and others like me. And, while I don't see my viewpoint as being religious, I can accept that others might consider it to be just as religious as pro-life.
If we accept the above, then we have a group of people that believe the life begins zero (0) days after conception and another group the believes that life begins approximately 270 days after conception.
It's my understanding that present abortion restrictions have something to do with viability of the fetus so that limitations are imposed if the fetus could survive outside the mother's womb.
Let's decide, via a periodic vote, the Politically Acceptable Birthdate, PAB and add it to our laws that allow abortion of fetuses younger than PAB.
The law should also provide for update of the PAB (maybe every four years) and should define limits for acceptable campaign behavior between elections.
Doug Skoglund
http://minimyway.blogspot.com
http://ifihadmyway.com
http://rational-politics.org
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