Ebbie, I agree with you.We have a case here in my county. They are willing to build a new juvenile detention center but not to fund the staffing of the youth centers.
DON'T get me started on adoption. We tried to adopt. Yeah! Right!
Those who support the death penalty and are anti-abortion seem to me to have a more logical stance than those who oppose the death penalty and support abortion. One side says that a criminal should die but an innocent unborn should live. The other says the child should die and the criminal should live.
kat, just what right does our, or any other, government have to go into another country-often unasked-to give out birth control and/or abortion information? In the places that we have meddled before such as the Sahel (Southern Sahara) our efforts have resulted in over-population and the subsequent desertification of the area. We need to study what the possible results of any kind of social or medical intervention will be BEFORE we sent aid of any kind.
Yes SeamM. The problem is one of definition. When DOES a life begin?
Re: Roe vs Wade. Bush cannot repeal it. Only Congress could do that by passing a law repealing it. The Supreme Court has repeatedly refused to reconsider it and if Bush appoints non-ideologues like his father did, I don't expect them to in the future.
Ishall now retreat to my cave, roll the BIG rock in front of the door, and await the ....well...the whatever.

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