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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (125153)	2/3/2001 7:41:49 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You are a very tolerant and broad-minded person. More so than me, I'm sure. Me too. I suspect most of what you call extenuating circumstances, I would call life. I suspect not. For example, most women are not victim of rape and incest. That is life, not such extenuating circumstances as rape. Life is full of difficulties and everyone goes through difficulties and has pressures and limited choices. But life is not as full of rape and incest and mothers whose lives are threatened by unborn children. As a result, there is nothing at all mitigating the wholesale barbarism that commonly takes place in abortuaries. Not an excuse for murder though. I make no excuses. I merely acknowledge the frailties of people when faced with circumstances in which they must sacrifice a great deal. I have said all along that they should make the sacrifices. But I understand they will not. You would claim their murders are not murders, a belief that runs squarely against the facts. When an otherwise unthreatened and innocent life is extinguished by abortion, a murder occurs. Period. No murder is acceptable and all should receive the attention of the law. But we ought to have brains enough to know not all murders are equal, and that as a result the law should respond on the basis of the facts and extenuating circumstances of every murder. And if I believed that something was murder, I'd have trouble being broad-minded enough to allow it as a rational compromise. That is your problem. Fortunately I have brains enough to know not all murders are equal and that as a result the law should respond to the facts and extenuating circumstances of every murder.