You still think, then, that I have no right to demand that Rice clarify her position on this literally life and death issue?
Dan
I think demand is probably the wrong word. I am not sure any of us may, effectively, demand anything of anyone. Do you have a right to know her position, exactly what it is, before you decide whether or not you should support her if she were to ever run for something? Sure. (Remember, she is not running for anything, yet.)
One other point I meant to mention about your last response, the question of why such avid support for abortion by some. (Again, I got the ideas from Alan Keyes.) He says he thinks the push for legal, free and easy abortion, by the left primarily, is part of the total scheme to blur and eventually destroy our values. Other parts of that effort are moral relativism, political correctness, anti relgion, anti death penalty, feminism, gay rights, etc., as well as the push to level the playing field so that we are all equally mediocre. At the very crux of the whole effort is abortion. Abortion devalues life, making the unborn a thing rather than a child. Once we can easily and cavalierly discard life itself then the rest of the transformation is much easier. To the left, life is secondary, even irrelevant, in the march toward power.