Posted on 05/09/2007 6:51:49 AM PDT by Lusis
The resignation of Randall Tobias, the chief of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, for "personal reasons" following the revelation that he had engaged the services of two escort-service workers has provided rich grist for amusement on the punditry circuit. There was indeed plenty of material for humor in the situation, from Tobias's strong stand in favor of abstinence teaching in AIDS prevention programs to his "I didn't inhale"-style assertion that he never had sex with the women. But the predictable laughs have obscured a much larger issue than hypocrisy in the ranks of social conservatives. The reason Tobias's call-girl adventures became public is that the owner of the Washington, DC-based service, Pamela Martin, is facing prosecution and has turned her records over to news organizations to help pay for her legal defense.
Even those who feel a certain schadenfreude at Tobias's downfall should be asking the question: should there have been a criminal case in the first place?
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
“It’s just a bunch of cells”
-———Funny. Long long ago, PRIOR to Roe v. Wade, I attended a lecture on the subject of abortion, while a student at the University of Chicago. The speaker was Dr. Lonnie Myers (female) , who along with Dr. Quentin Young was one of the earliest proponents of this “cause”. I knew NOTHING about the issue, (which was just gaining the kind of political momentum, apparently, that would result in Roe v. Wade, three or four years later. I was about 20 years old. I couldn’t help but raise my hand and stand up and ask HER why she thought the enormous number of cells
(she actually put a ballpark NUMBER on the fetal cells)
had anything to do with anything.Something about her quick and easy rhetoric just rankled me, and I didn’t know why, though, as I say , I was unaware at my age of how and why this area was even an “issue”. I was 20, she was 50, and she couldn’t think of a answer, except to recite her conviction that they were “just cells”.
BTT
I don't see a difference either. They both get paid for screwing you.
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