[MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ

[Michael Poloukhine]

> [Krimel]
> My Top 10 fears about overturning Roe v Wade:
> 
> # 10. I fear a tangled nest of conflicting state laws that force
> women in
> some states to travel away from their homes to seek medical
> treatment. 
> 
> #9. I fear that women whose health is jeopardized by prenatal
> complications
> will discover in the potential of motherhood, a death sentence.
> 
> #8. I fear that couples who discover birth defects during the
> prenatal
> period will be forced to bear such children to term.
> 
> #7. I fear women without such resources being desperate enough to
> seek out
> unsafe and illegal back-alley abortions. 
> 
> #6. I fear the government stepping in to make personal moral
> decisions for
> its citizens. 
> 
> #5. I fear the return of medieval Blue laws.
> 
> #4. I fear for the future of unwanted children abandoned into an
> already
> underfunded foster care systems. 
> 
> #3. I fear an epidemic of child abuse and neglect resulting from
> stupid
> people being forced to procreate.
> 
> #2. I fear this would signal a victory for pinned headed religious
> fundamentalists' and embolden them just when it seems like they are
> just
> about to finish eating a heaping bowl of shut the fuck up.
> 
> 
> And my Number 1 fear is:
> I fear that all those abortion protesters lining up in front of
> women's
> health clinics will have nothing to do in their spare time and will
> haunt my
> local IHOP making it difficult for me to get service and pestering
> me to
> read idiotic tracts about the afterlife while I am waiting to be
> seated. 

MP: Wow. That's a lot fear, Krimel. A lot of closed minded and pretty bigoted 
fear at that. If we weren't sure already that "fear is the mindkiller" you are well 
on your way to proving it.

Do you think we can't legislate reasonable abortion laws, locally or nationally? 
Why? Has the nation been over-run by those you fear, hate and malign? If so, 
then why risk legislating on a whole host of other issues? Why not let the courts 
make *all* our decisions? 

You are abdicating to the court the responsibilities of democratic freedom out of 
fear. Its a losing proposition; you will still end up with fear, but have lost your 
freedom.

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." Ralph Waldo Emerson



MP
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"Don't believe everything you think."