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To: Poet who wrote (100)	2/17/2001 6:18:19 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 51712

Great questions though, Karen. <gg> Okay. I've beaten that to death. The current situation is that abortion is legal. Access is sometimes limited and government money won't go to it, but it's legal. Pro-choice people are more or less satisfied with that. Most would like greater availability and some would like government support, not just tolerance, of the procedure. The pro-life camp finds abortion abominable because they consider a fetus to be a person entitled to the rights thereof. Their proposal is to make abortion illegal. The implications and ramifications of that are unclear, or at least no one has yet offered to explain them to me. I think that they're so focused on fighting the good fight to make it illegal that they haven't thought it through. So we have this standoff. The playing field changes from time to time at the margins, but basically everyone is dug in and I guess we stay at standoff until technology bails us out sometime in the future. I suppose it's possible that the balance could shift enough to make abortion illegal, but I doubt it. It's sure not going to shift more toward greater access. The battle lines are drawn in such a way that this problem can never be solved. Neither side wants to entertain any other way of looking at the problem best I can tell. Maybe that's because everyone is so entrenched and habituated, like Northern Ireland of the Middle East that their creativity is shot. Or... Maybe this is like the cold war--the standoff IS the win and the energy that this debate consumes is just part of the overhead of life in a democracy. Maybe I'm the only one too stupid to realize that. Karen

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