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"pro-life-at-any-cost"

What cost would that be? The cost that concerns is tens of millions of dead fetuses/babies. You speak about the importance of individual rights and personal sovreignity. It is precisely those things that lead me to a pro-life position. I believe fetuses should be allowed their inalienable, individual rights; I believe they should have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I am not a "Nanny Stater". I believe in small, decentralized, efficient, unobtrusive government focused primarily on protecting the safety and sovereignity of the nation. However, I also believe that there are certain areas, small though they may be, in which it can support the cultural and moral traditions of the society that supports it, while still remaining small, decentralized, efficient, and unobtrusive. This is, of course, more true with local governments than state ones and more true with the state than the federal. And even in cases where all branches of government should butt out, I still support Western "traditional moral values" on a social and cultural basis. I hope you don't believe that supporting such things necessarily translates to a massive federal government micromanaging our lives like a Puritan commune. I would far prefer that individuals, institutions, and communities choose cultural and moral traditionalism of their own free initiative. In fact, I'm certain that such traditionalism would not be sustainable otherwise, regardless of any government legislation/regulation.

I would far prefer that individuals, institutions, and communities choose cultural and moral traditionalism of their own free initiative. In fact, I'm certain that such traditionalism would not be sustainable otherwise, regardless of any government legislation/regulation.

And I agree with you here. I'm not complaining about that, but about those who would outlaw practices that they find objectionable.