No disrespect intended, but your philosophy goes to the very heart of the debate over abortion, IMO. Infants in the womb are not adults therefore have no equal protection right under the law? I fully realize that minors are not adults when it comes to certain privileges (driving, alcohol, tobacco) and are treated differently under courts of law (in most but not all cases as persons as young as 15 have been tried as adults in some states) but they certainly would seem to be treated with the same standards of law when it comes to rights.
> No disrespect intended,
None taken
> but your philosophy goes to the very heart of the debate over abortion, IMO.
I agree. And I think our viewpoints are probably quite similar, perhaps for different reasons but.
Recall that I said that everybody deserves Respect. That also applies to children. Adults should Respect children for who they are, and also for who they will become: the future of our Species, the future leaders of our Nation, the people who will choose which old people’s home we go into...
Children deserve Respect, and they also deserve Protection, in exchange for them having Respect for Adults.
Abortion is the ultimate form of Disrespect. Not only is an Adult not showing Respect for an infant yet unborn, but the Adult is saying “you’re not even human” and denying this infant the Protection due, and denying the infant life itself. And then as a final act of Disrespect, discarding the remains as if it were so much medical waste.
Liberals support Abortion because Liberals are Disrespectful: just have a read of DU for proof. Things sometimes get spicy over here at FRee Republic, but there’s usually some modicum of Respect and Decorum here. That is because we are Conservatives. We believe in Respect. It is therefore no surprise that we also oppose Abortion.