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To: Lane3 who wrote (10339)	1/30/2006 10:39:43 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541688

I doubt it's offensive to all libertarians. It's offensive to you. I think you are the only person I ever met who found it offensive (not that there aren't one or two others out there, somewhere- I've just never met them). It's like being offended by the government interfering in airbags, and mandating their presence in cars. We know not all people benefit from airbags, but so many DO benefit, and they have so reduced the risk of injury in auto accidents, that we use the regulations as a short hand to save the most people. If there was a legitimate reason to regulate abortion- if it saved "people" I'd be more inclined to be sympathetic. But unlike airbags, and seat belts, which get belted on people, with abortion we're talking about cells, which one side calls the same as a person because of religious doctrine. For legislation I require secular purpose, and secular logic AND I require that statistically the legislation makes sense.