[Amelia]

However, polls consistently show that 65% - 70% of Americans believe that abortion should be restricted to cases of rape, incest, and the life (not health) of the mother.

I certainly agree that the issue should be decided by the people, and not by the courts.

[Aloysius88]

In the middle of the 18th century a writer asked an old soldier why he'd gone out in the wee hours of the morning on April 19,1775 to join his neighbors to fight the British at Lexington and Concord.

He asked if the Stamp Act was the reason and the old man replied that he hadn't seen any stamps and that as far as he knew none were ever used. The interviewer asked if the tax on tea was the reason. The old man said he never drank any tea and that the boys had thrown it all in Boston Harbor. The writer then named several authors who wrote on the principles of liberty and the old man said he'd never heard of them. He said the only books they had were hymn books, almanacs, and the Bible.

The writer then asked: " Well, then, what was the matter?"

" Young man, what we meant in going for them Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn't mean that we should."