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Thank you for your thoughtful and thought-out response. I suppose there is room for compromise. I'm of the school of thought to outlaw abortion on demand but I'll accept compromises that immediately reduce the 2-4 million abortions performed annually in this nation.

The stats on women who've died from poorly performed or illegal abortions are all over the board from less than 100 per year to tens of thousands according to NOW or NARLA. The question of whether or not all these roughly 100 million or more aborted babies have died is not a question at all. They are indeed dead. A sad fact that we all will have to account for someday as a nation.

Sex education is perhaps a noble idea but from what I've witnessed of public education and cultural issues...I fear your good intentions will be warped by minority activism and will end up teaching our kids more of the wrong thing. I also have two teenage daughters (almost ...12 and 13) and in Sudbury MA, they have already been taught about sexual preference sensitivity. I fear I don't trust our public schools in this matter. It's best left to the parents.

You are correct about birth control....it does indeed work and pity that more folks who don't wish for children and continue to copulate unabated don't use it religiously.

Thanks for the time you took and the genial tone of your reply....we do have some common ground. There are others on this thread that exhibit a callousnes towards pregnancy in general that is disturbing.

I'm of the school of thought to outlaw abortion on demand but I'll accept compromises that immediately reduce the 2-4 million abortions performed annually in this nation.

That is one of the most sensible and realistic things I have seen from a Pro-lifer.

I wish you the best of luck with your girls-- if parents like us stay involved with our kids and their friends, we can greatly affect their lives for the better.

I'll accept compromises that immediately reduce the 2-4 million abortions performed annually in this nation.

Thank you for that. That's my gripe with most radical pro-lifers - that they will not admit to any compromise being acceptable to them.

I also believe that a fertilized egg, while it may have potential to be a "life," it does not have a "soul" per se and the sin involved in terminating it is no greater than that of killing an animal. Obviously there is a lot of room to differ as to when "life" begins, most arguments boiling down to religion and whether or not a fetus has a "soul" and at what time the "soul" enters the body. Is it before brain waves start (late first trimester)? Personally, I feel that prior to having brain waves, the embryo is not the same as a living person.

Most pro-choice folk I know are very queasy with the partial birth abortion question, would love to see it outlawed, but are seriously fearful about the "slippery slope" argument, especially when faced with pro-lifers so radical they want RU-486, IUDs, and The Pill (possible abortifacient in very small percentage of cases) banned.

If more in the pro-life movement were serious about actually wanting to reduce the number of abortions by making compromises, I think they'd be more successful.