Bruce, if an anti-abortion (I don't believe the phrase "pro-life" is correct) movement pickets an abortion clinic, calling for all people who work there and go there for abortions to be beaten up or subjected to discrimination, then yes, that anti-abortion movement is as bad as any neo-Nazi group. Similarly any pro-abortion group who pickets a Roman Catholic church and calls for Catholics to be beaten up or subjected to discrimination is as bad as any neo-Nazi group.

In the pro/anti-abortion movements though, the former do exist. I've yet to hear about the latter taking place (except in conflicts between religions, when abortion isn't the issue at hand).

I will live with the line you draw, if and only if it doesn't conflict with my and other people's rights to have differing opinions about how *they* live their lives. I will not live with the line you draw if it attempts to regulate *my* or other people's opinions on living life.

I have no problems with anyone having different views from mine, on a spectrum from Genghiz Khan (or Maggie Thatcher :-) through to Karl Marx. They can do what they want themselves. I don't even mind them trying to convince other people that they're right, so long as I'm also allowed to convince other people that they're wrong if I think they are. But when their message is "I'm right, and other people must change their behaviour because of that", they can get right out of my face, thanks.

Graham.