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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2104)	1/22/2001 1:40:48 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

Yes, you might be a liberal who opposes abortion personally. Why not? I'm in that camp, barely. But I am not prepared to remove that right from others, however. This is a personal moral choice, IMO. I don't believe abortion is a litmus test and if you embrace other humanist values (like a responsibility for non-aborted feti )then you would actually on stronger moral ground that someone who rejects abortion AND rejects social safety nets. The latter is just irrational. [Edit: given that a good number of abortions are for unmarried minors impregnated by 18+ males, a connection between these issues is logical for births arising under such circumstances]. When you legislate your personal morality and apply it to the greater whole, you are no longer defined a liberal or a social libertarian. That is what social conservatives do. However, I don't think that these broad classification do much to clarify issues.