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Thread #104170   Message #2136400
Posted By: John Hardly
29-Aug-07 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mutual respect
Subject: RE: BS: Mutual respect
Snail,

The two "extremes" of the abortion question:

No abortions for any reason vs. any abortion for any reason--no restrictions

If I allow as how No abortions for any reason is too extreme -- and believe (as I've said at least three times already in this thread) that abortion in the case of rape or incest is permissable, and that abortion to save the life of the mother is advisable, my position is a compromise from one of the extremes.

The pro-choice side does not make a similar compromise. The pro-choice side has made NO compromises. The pro-choice side has stood steadfastly upon any abortion at any time for any reason--no restrictions. They even have done so throughout the partial-birth, late-term abortion debate.

Thus, the pro-choice side of the debate is the one that is "extremist" -- a point I was adressing to PMB's initial assertion that it is the pro-life side that is "extremist".