This always has been the sticking point ... as if the woman -- hopped up on hormones and under the extreme duress of an unexpected pregnancy -- were somehow barred from the defenses of genuine mental turmoil. You punish the abortionists, Callahan. They are the murderers-for-hire whose shills actually seek out and counsel women to pay for the murder services they offer. A few of the more deformed consciences aside, most women suffer -- both physiologically and especially psychologically -- from abortion. I think any court of law ought to be able to make the call based on the circumstances of the woman's apparent premeditation or conviction where the abortion was concerned. For example, a mentally-deficient woman or a minor hustled off to the abortionist by a guardian or parent has no choice in the matter and is entirely free from culpability. A woman clearly distressed by the one-time experience of abortion likely would be best served by a probationary placement of some sort in a home for unwed mothers or adoption agency. But a woman who has three or four "birth control" abortions under her belt already and who secures the services of a trusted abortionists for some extravagant sum probably should share to a far greater extent the punishment meted out to her longtime partner in crime. Does that sound rational?
I am disturbed by this but I have come to the realization that conservatives will have to compromise their beliefs once again in 2008.There are no conservative alternatives.
Mike Pence,Mike Steele,and Ken Blackwell are not ready or nationally known.We will have to compromise in 2008.Pence will hold the line on spending in the house,then we will have Pence,a true conservative,as our President in 2016.