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To: Sam Hill
Like slavery?

Exactly like slavery, as a matter of fact, before the 13th Amendment.

How does a matter of life or death only matter on the state level? That is insane.

Because that is where the issue belongs. You asked earlier, "If abortion is wrong, what difference does it make what "level" it is decided on?" If it doesn't matter, then we ought to campaign for the United Nations to impose an abortion ban worldwide. But we don't (I hope, that is, that you don't). Why? Because the U.N. has no legitimate authority to do anything of the kind. Similarly, I am unaware of where the federal government of the U.S. has been Constitutionally empowered to ban or regulate abortion. The federal Constitution empowers the federal government to do a few certain specific things, prohibits it from doing others, and reserves other rights to the states and the people. If regulating murder is not one of those enumerated powers, then it falls to the states.

253 posted on 11/15/2006 8:07:07 AM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: Sloth

"Exactly like slavery, as a matter of fact, before the 13th Amendment."

Well, that worked out great, didn't.

And never mind the rightness or wrongness of it.

You're the party of principals all right.

LOL


258 posted on 11/15/2006 8:20:07 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Sloth

"You asked earlier, "If abortion is wrong, what difference does it make what "level" it is decided on?" If it doesn't matter, then we ought to campaign for the United Nations to impose an abortion ban worldwide."

This is what I mean by the l/Libertarians' inability to have a rational discussion.


260 posted on 11/15/2006 8:21:28 AM PST by Sam Hill
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