[Secret Agent Man]

This is assuming you are talking to a rational person, which is not a great assumption.

[RoosterRedux]

Excellent rational discussion of the legal, practical (and even moral) issues involved in abortion.

This kind of cool, clearheaded examination starts to build a framework for understanding and finding solutions for the complexities of abortion.

[tired&retired]

The earliest a baby has been born and survived is 21 weeks and 5 days. Two premature babies hold the record for this.

[bgill]

Women keeping their knees together and men stopping their whining about wearing condoms would have stopped this argument before it began. With today’s contraceptives, there is no reason to get pregnant unless you’re flat out too bleepin’ lazy to use them.

[sparklite2]

 it is best to begin with areas of agreement.
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That would be a Venn diagram overlap. I have found that
the area I thought showed overlap culturally was everyone's
love of the Constitution.  Wrong.  And without that, a Venn
diagram of left and right looks like this.


Nothing short of watering the Tree of Liberty can fix this.