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With all due respect and, indeed, affection, I meant what I said to him previously: My conversion to his POV will not occur in my lifetime, his lifetime or God's lifetime. What he is proposing was proposed by a number of my old family law clients and I refused to advance the issue for them even for money. It is just another distraction and waste of time when the movement needs to focus on the primary goal.

His "paper abortion" is nothing more than fleeing from court-ordered child support payments. When the biodad abandons the child in utero, the child is still, to him, a mere abstract concept (the fictional status so cherished by the Sangerian mindset: "just a blob of tissues"). No child support payments and no relationship with or obligation toward the undefined child and lots more time and budget for the sports bar. If he really doesn't drink, he can order Diet Cokes. Thus PT proposes to financially reward the sexual hunter/gatherer male who wants a hit and run social life. He thinks of this as recruiting the wild oat sowers to the pro-life cause (apparently) as though that was a good idea.

I am pinging PT only as the customary courtesy and certainly not because I give a feather or a fig about such opinions as he may hold.

I think you are displaying unwarranted kindness to PT given his history on this thread. You are free to do so and I am free not to do so. As a movement, we have never been so hard up as to have to recruit those such as him without much better standardization of belief. Meanwhile, he can pursue the liberation of wild oat sowers, the impoverishment of women, the abandonment of babies who do manage to survive to be born to legally encouraged fatherlessness, yet another unnecessary and unwanted intrusion of superficial pop culture libertarianism into the prolife issue where it has no place and no discernible use.

It is better for the pro-life movement to harvest the flowers sown long ago than to regress to the stage of the Maoist slogan "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom." We know what we want and what we want has no relationship to what PT wants.

Also the somewhat human tomcat has not been born who does not know how to press for that "liberating" abortion if he is aware of the pregnancy.

Dr. S.: God bless you and yours as ever.