Comparing liguor to human beings is beyond even apples and oranges. Abortion is MURDER not a vice. However, it doesn’t matter, Cain clearly wants abortion to be illegal, period, no exceptions.
I am not comparing human beings to liquor. What I am considering is the enforce-ability of a law vs. the effect of societal pressure, scorn, taboos, etc. Now that so very many women have actually had abortions, they are very vested in seeing it as not murder. They will lie to themselves. I am suggesting that some things are eradicated most effectively by societal norms, shame, derision, disapproval. People now proudly announce their abortions. You can’t make people accept that abortion is murder merely by passing a LAW...it must be done in a much more invasive way in order to make them see it. How is it enforceable at least for the first 5 or 6 months? Not a soul has to be informed and the woman can totally keep her secret to herself. I am suggesting that, while we sit around and argue about a LAW that years are lost where we could be doing things societally that would bring back awareness, shame, etc. Laws seem to be selectively enforced in this country any more anyway and have often become a joke. So, no, I am not comparing liquor and human life, rather I am trying to consider which things would actually address the issue more effectively and quickly. Smoking was not made illegal, but little by little it has been made almost taboo. And no, I am not now comparing smoking to human life either. What I am looking at is that there is more than one way to skin a cat.