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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (17094)	4/18/2000 9:26:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

Steven, there are interests that can be negotiated, and the outcome, one hopes, will be "win- win". However, one cannot guarantee that all parties will be satisfied, and therefore one might have a "lose-lose-lose" situation, only one that is better than nothing. And some matters are beyond negotiation. We either have chattel slavery or we do not. What was the compromise, beyond a possible phase- out period? We either had self- government, or we remained subject to the Crown in Parliament. We either have a substantially free market in capital, or we have central planning. I consider myself a moderate on abortion: I favor throwing the question back to the states; compassionate exceptions for rape, incest, and substantial threats to the life of the mother; and differential sanctions depending upon the term, and mainly aimed at the doctor in the first couple of trimesters. I have nothing against most forms of birth control. But I would be painted a fanatic by some, an advocate of "government controlled family planning". Given the gravity with which I view abortion, I consider such a charge frivolous........