OpEdNews - Page 5 of Article: Why Funding for Abortions is Essential to the Nation's Health

Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2009-07-28 11:36:51 PM

"Women who cannot afford abortions are being penalized relative to those who can."

And is the same true of poor women who can't afford hit men to off their cheating husbands?

"If we believe in the Constitution, as does Ron Paul but not some of his followers, then we understand that the right to privacy and the right to choose how to use our bodies are among the most basic to which women as well as men are entitled."

The very precise text of the Constitution makes no provisions for either.

"It has been said that, if men could become pregnant, then abortion would be one of our most sacred rights!"

How do you figure that? The same gender that fights all the wars is the one that has outlawed murder in every society in history. That sounds like something a woman would say.

"I am both surprised and disappointed at the response to the arguments I have presented above, which are advanced to clarify the moral standing of abortion."

And your emotional responses are of no importance whatever.

"Certainly, the common standard for the existence of a person is not conception, since an ovum and sperm has no such standing, but the occurrence of a live birth."

Certainly not, actually. Typically the existence of a person is confirmed by heartbeat, brainwaves, fingerprints, and response to stimuli--all true of an 8-week-old fetus. Do you figure that if you keep repeating falsehoods over and over again that they will magically become true?
"That someone on this forum would make such a baseless argument suggests that reason is not prevalent here, even if libertarians like to pride themselves on their possession of that ability."

Again with the appeal to personal belief. It's not enough for you to simply say that reason is not present; you have to show WHY the opinions being offered are unreasonable. You are not a conjurer who can alter truth with a few well-chosen words.

"I find it fantastic that a political group that is ostensibly committed to keeping the government out of our lives and maximizing freedom would use the government to impose limitations on our ability to exercise it."

I'm not a libertarian. I'm a classical liberal. I don't like government interference either, but a law against the unjustifiable killing of an innocent I'm willing to support.

"The crucial concept is not freedom per se but effective freedom, which entails the resources to exercise it."
Translation: Equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.

Spoken like a true communist, tovarich.

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