So we personally agree on abortion, Michael, or are not far from seeing the issue alike. I imagine that would surprise PROLIFE.
But I don't understand, literally, much of this post.
<<<You seem to be in greater anguish over the position some conservatives take regarding banning early term
abortions, then you are over what you refer to as "infanticide". I'm curious, how is infanticide, which many liberal
Democrats support, (as evidenced by our inability to ban partial birth abortion) worse than some conservatives
position to have the government intrude in supporting life in early pregnancy? >>>
I THINK that asks "Aren't infanticide and government intrusion in early term abortions both evils?"
If it does, my answer is yes, they are both evils.
But in fact, my point was not to rehash the abortion argument, which i've expressed myself on copiously in the past. It was to make this point, still unrebutted:
Conservatives as well as liberals want to use the government to intrude on people's personal lives to whatever degree they can get away with in achieving their own agendas. And conservatives are hypocritical when they claim otherwise.
I do not believe that the issues you mentioned are opposed by conservatives primarily on the grounds that they believe government should not intrude. They interest conservatives because conservatives desire particular ends. (In the list you provide, often material or economic ones.)
This is proved by the conservative view as reasonable the position that the government should stand vigilantly by the bed next to the wife and husband whose condom just broke, or peek in the window to see that no sodomy has occurred.
Liberals admit their intrusive, ideological statist enthusiasms, mainly. Conservatives hypocritically deny theirs. |
