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

To: Bill who wrote (15936)	11/25/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 67261

You cannot legislate a respect for human life. You can only enact laws dealing with actions taking a human life- and their must always be exceptions to the proscription against killing another human. The Democratic from of government we have in this country, and for which we should all be truly thankful this holiday, allows the majority (or at least the majority of those who vote) to decide when one human can end the life of another. This is true whether the matter is criminal execution, assisted suicide, or abortion. Oddly enough many of the people who so fervently want to protect the unborn have no problem in blowing up doctors,nurses, security guards or innocent bystanders. This seems completely illogical to me. If life is really sacred (and this is an area I admit I know nothing about) than their protests should be peaceful and they should be marching with equal vim and vigor for condemned murderers and waging campaigns to end war and brutality world wide. Further many of these people do not wish to pay taxes to support the maintenance of unwanted children. Nor would most of them wish to take such children into their homes. Although I find abortion personally repellent- I can't really tell you why since it does not stem from a religious reason but only from a generalized love of my own children. I personally cannot think of any logical way to differentiate between the killing of the born and unborn save on issues of viability. But laws do not have to be logical nor do they need to be moral- they merely have to represent the majority opinion and be Constitutional (as defined by the present US Supreme Court justices). While that may seem arbitrary (and it is) and not a great deal of protection, it is more protection than most of the world's people enjoy. Retroactive abortions are frequently practiced in China and India and most of the rest of the developing world- and in this country children are murdered every day by child abuse. I think the attentions of the radical right to life movement would be better focused on securing life for the already born. I know its a radical idea.