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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (23128)7/7/2006 10:47:16 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 541538
 
This bit particularly resonated with me:

"Even strong believers in abortion rights (I'm one) ought to acknowledge and respect the moral sincerity of many right-to-lifers. I cannot share, or even fathom, their conviction that a microscopic dot -- as oblivious as a rock, more primitive than a worm -- has the same human rights as anyone reading this article...Nevertheless, abortion opponents deserve respect for more than just their right to hold and express an opinion we disagree with. Excluding, of course, the small minority who believe that their righteousness puts them above the law, sincere right-to-lifers deserve respect as that rarity in modern American politics: a strong interest group defending the interest of someone other than themselves.

Or so I always thought -- until the arrival of stem cells."

My being respectful of them and their position has always been somewhat challenged by their apparent lack of equivalent energy in taking in the children who would otherwise be aborted. But that's not such a simple matter so I had been able to put aside my reservations. But that they don't come down hard on fertility practices is harder to put aside and I now struggle to maintain that tenuous respect. I'm on the verge of hanging it up.
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