Joe,

My aplogies to you, sir... I had to reread you post several times but your positions are reasonable, as are Kent's...

Actually, I don't find myself all that apart from John's but we still do have this divide...

I think it is fair to revist why exactly Roe v. Wade came about in the first place... We didn't have these moral positions as much as we had access divisions... Rich and middle class white women were having their little weekends in Mexico (wink, wink) while por woe3mn, both balck and white were bleeding to death in rooms set up behind gas stations... That was the story then...

Now we have the moralist who don't even believe in abortion if the mother's health is in danger, of if the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest... These are the folks who are contolling the pro-life debate... They have scared pharmacists from dispersing birth control bills... They have given the green light to nutballs to shopot and kill abortion doctors... They now want every form of birth control made illegal... There was one on Diane Rheame today... Why is it that reasonable pro-lifers don't have the microphone these days... If I were a pro-lifer I wouldn't admit to it because the movenemnt has been taken over by radical Talibanish hut-balls... I think it's way past time for all pro-lifers to reign in these nutballs because these people are making you look bad... And they are getting microphone time, too...

Lastly, when I say I am flexable, yeah, I am... I have no problem with parents being involved, I have no problems with comprehensive group couseling prior to abortion, I have no problem with adoption people having a input, I have no problem in sex education being taught to kids well before puberty, I have no problem with making contraceptives more available to prevent pregancies and I have no problems with more Public Service ads that are aimed at cutting down unwanted pregnancies...

Actually, for myself, I am anti-abortion unless it was to save my wife's life is in danger but. like Amos, believe that the goverment's role isn't to finf more ways to intervene into our personal freedoms...

B~