"Very few 'pro choice' advocates are in favor of parents having the right to just summarily decide at the last minute, "no, we'd rather not have a baby." Horror stories about late term abortions are usually red herrings to cloud the matter."

Actually, Bill, I disagree (surprise!). There is no great rush from the pro-choice side of the debate to clarify this point, or reach a reasonable compromise on the issue.

The call to restrict late term abortions -- a social compromise, a social middle ground --- comes from the pro-life side, and is met with vehement disagreement from the pro-choice side (demonstrating that it is they who are at the social "extreme").

The pro-choice side fights vehemently and politically for all they are worth for any abortion, any time. And they characterize any wish to restrict late term abortion as "extreme" even though, even as your own post would intimate, most don't agree with "any abortion, any time".


Ebbie,

I've scanned my "thou shalt not" thingy. It reads fine to me. Sorry, do you not understand? Really?

I'm saying that there is no social issue that American's standards are not more lax about than they were 20 years ago. Did you really not understand my point?

It doesn't matter how vocal some "moral majority" might be. The reality is that the social standards are still more and more lax no matter how that "moral majority" may bellyache.

You really think there are more restrictions on personal and social behavior now than there were 20 years ago? Really?