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To: TimF who wrote (109786)	4/17/2005 7:29:41 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793820

It wouldn't resolve the battle There will never be a consensus on this. You can't get a consensus between those who find any abortion an abomination and those who find state control of their bodies and procreation choices an abomination. Never happen. That leaves us with two choices. We can keep on fighting about it forever. Or we can agree for the sake of peace to compromise on some middle ground and each side learns to live with its distress over what it has given up. I don't think we could even get a consensus on either side on whether to continue to fight the purist fight or whether to compromise and make do let alone get both sides to agree on an approach. If we were going to compromise, like you I know of only two approaches. We can pick some point nationally in the development cycle (variance by gestation period) around which we permit/constrain abortions along the lines of Roe v Wade. Or we let the states each do their thing (variance by locality). I vastly prefer to resolve this by compromise. My preferred approach to compromise would be the state route. If we went the national route, I could probably learn to live with any result that permitted unquestioned abortions during the first few months regardless of what restrictions were placed on later gestation periods. But I wouldn't like it any more than you would. Which is probably how we define a good compromise--both sides hate it the same. I imagine, though, that there is a critical mass of people unwilling to compromise and that the war will continue over the foreseeable future.