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To: Wuli
conservatives, whether social conservatives or Libertarians, should be united, as Conservatives, on what should be understood as the true LEGAL limits of Roe-V-Wade - abortion is “legal” but just being “legal” does not mean that anyone who does not want to participate in providing it can be required to be part of providing it.

I think they're united on this trivial point now - I've never heard anyone disagree.

28 posted on 03/21/2012 10:51:43 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

“I think they’re united on this trivial point now - I’ve never heard anyone disagree.”

I think some social conservatives, besides rejecting Roe-V-Wade, believe it does not go as far as it does, in terms of what’s legal and protected, and some Libertarians believe the “protections” of Roe go farther than they actually do, sometimes assuming that just because it is legal that medical facilities capable of performing it must do so, if asked, out of respecting the choice of the individual to have it.

Many non-thinking conservastives, of a Libertarian type have been caught up in the language that calls the results of the Roe decision as a declaration of an individual “right”, and some then fail to acknowlegde the “individual rights” of those who fall into the category of persons capable of performing/assisting an abortion - as if medical assistance is a robotized societal public service and only the “rights” of those needing it’s service need be considered. Some “pro-choice” Libertarians I know have fallen into this “populist” notion. I have told them they have lost their Libertarian roots.


29 posted on 03/21/2012 12:17:57 PM PDT by Wuli
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