[optimistically_conservative]

I think you've missed Hank's point, simply because it is accurately stated. Maybe an analogy is in order.

You have the right to the opportunity, not to the end results. This is true in the affirmative action debate as well as the abortion debate. No one should be allowed to deny you the opportunity to live, to strive, to succeed or fail. And, you have the right, finding a society denies you these rights, to leave that society for another more to your liking or - with a majority of the governed - change the society you are in.

An unborn child should not be denied the opportunity to be born - but there has not been a violation of Creator endowed rights if there is a miscarraige or stillbirth.

As to our moral and legal obligations to dependants, this is a failure of duty, not a denial of a right. I have a duty to care for those dependant on me, they do not have a right to the fruits of my labor. This civic and moral duty may be enforced by law.

[Hank Kerchief]

I think you've missed Hank's point, simply because it is accurately stated.

I think you might be right. Odd, isn't it?

Hank