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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j_b who wrote (1968)	9/9/1998 11:46:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Isn't the Replcn party the one that primarily against abortion? This seems to me to be them telling the population how to think>> Only if you say that prohibiting murdering one's wife is telling the population how to think. It's simple. Over the centuries Society has been in a perpetual state of redefining (a purely moral issue) which life forms are defined as human beings with full civil rights and which life forms are not defined as full human beings with full civil rights. At various times the non-humans or semi-humans have included captured persons (slaves in Roman times were just people who happened to have lost the last battle, without any regard for race, creed, color, etc.), blacks, women, children, homosexuals, etc., etc., etc. The issue today is in which class (full civil rights, partial civil rights, no civil rights) the unborn child (or, if you prefer, the fetus, the bundle of tissue, the fertilized cell, etc.) belongs. Of course it's a moral question, just as it's a moral question whether women should be required to perform suttee on their husbands' pyres or not, or whether girls should be circumsised or not. If you believe the unborn child should join the "recognized as a true human being with full civil rights" group, you view abortion as simple murder just like killing any other person. If you believe the unborn child falls within the semi-human or not-human classes, they you see no problem because it's okay to kill a semi- or non-human for your personal reasons without any interference by the government. EVERY law we have tells the population how to think (using your word; I think the term "act" is better because laws can't control what's in your head but only what you say or do). That's the purpose of law: do what we think is the right thing for you to do, or be punished.