I was talking to a (young, liberal) girl in the lunchroom at work. She said that she'd "like to vote for Palin, but Palin was just too pro-life".
My reply was "So you can't vote for a person because she doesn't believe in killing babies? That's a tough position to defend." No reply.
Even if I was pro-abortion, I can't reconcile thinking like that. Hurts my head just to consider it.
I often like to drive a stake in the ground at both ends of a particular postion to help me reach an understanding of the issue itself.
At one end of this abortion issue, are people who believe that an egg becomes a human being at the moment of conception.
At the other end of the abortion issue are those who think that as long as the baby’s head is inside the mother, then it is not a human being.
Personally, I am not someone who believes that life begins at the moment of conception. I respect completely those who do, and understand their argument completely. I just happen to disagree.
However, I think the other end of the spectrum, which is partial birth abortion, the act of keeping the head of a fully formed and functioning infant inside the mother’s uterus so as to keep it from being technically defined as “born”, is not only murder, but is simply immoral and disgusting beyond belief that we even allow it. All in the name of “Reproductive Rights”. It makes me shudder.
I have a suspicion that the vast majority of these people here lie at that end of the spectrum. And that scares me.