I'm not really sure what you are trying to say (and have often privately referred to you as the Obtuse Genie), but I will agree with you that unrestricted access to abortion at any time prior to the water breaking, has definitely cheapened life. I use to deny it, but the results are very apparant: Life is becoming cheaper. Humans are becoming more expendable. This is the status-quo in some of the countries / regions I've visited -- Russia and Southeast Asia to name two -- but it's disturbing that we are going DOWN to (for example) Russia's level, instead of bringing them up to ours.
=== I use to deny it, but the results are very apparant: Life is becoming cheaper. Humans are becoming more expendable. This is the status-quo in some of the countries / regions I've visited -- Russia and Southeast Asia to name two -- but it's disturbing that we are going DOWN to (for example) Russia's level, instead of bringing them up to ours.
Up to ours?
I didn't see Vladimir Putin using his first televised address to gild with Scripture the specter of artificial reproduction and endow with some "moral" virtue the use of excess manufacture "potential people" as grist for the stem cell mill.
Given the billions Schwarzenegge(R)'s California wants to spend positioning itself as premier producer in the Human Farming realm, I wouldn't say that Human Life is exactly "cheap" in this nation, as far as commodities go.
"Quality of life" is a Republican catchphrase. Just like abortion was a Republican policy. Simply because they started with the weakest member of the family -- the unborn -- doesn't mean they're not equal to "educating" us into offing our own likewise at the other end of life.
Is there really that much difference between a "clump of tissue" and "vegetable" .... save for the fact the clump of tissue is still recognized as somewhat human compared to the thoroughly dehumanized "vegetable".
It's been quite the Educational morality play.
Can you not see that they're trying to fix their "cereal and milk" situation? I find Hillary's softening on abortion far less astounding than the fact all GOP First Ladies are pro-aborts who simply would like to see abortions reduced or occur in the first trimester only.
They Democrats have always been the puppets on a string where effecting GOP policy is concerned ... be it human reproduction or the environment. They changed their views on abortion overnight for the Sexual Revolution Against the Family. During the Civil Rights Era, abortion was "targeted genocide". The Title Legislation secured and the civil rights charade over with, it became the zenith of "empowerment" for the dysgenics of the Democrat party to off their own.
It's really quite an elegant way to handle things ... particularly when (against the better judgment of Barbara Bush) you leave human life as a plank in your platform and aren't above picking the scab of Viet Nam to bleed, even, 30 years after the fact so as to make it look like things are nice and "partisan".
That's why it's actually a rip-roaring laughline when, on April 11, 2001, Bush approves the UN POP treaty by saying: "And now a Republican adminsitration will finish the work of a Democrat administration. This is how environmental policy should work."
It's not that the truth is "out there" ... it's staring us all in the face.