It's not about abortion, it's about reproductive choice, or rather, taking that choice away from women.

These would be the same conservatives that fight tooth and nail any legislation to track down deadbeat dads. In fact, they often try to insist that there's no such thing as a deadbeat dad, saying "only" 12% of women with absent father's don't receive child support. Only 12%!? In short -- all the responsibility for women, all the choice for men.

Teenage abortion rates have dropped dramatically as more Sex Ed programs have included information on preventative measures like condoms. But Bush is against that, too. He's trying to appoint a doctor to a key FDA position on women's health who refuses to prescribe birth control. Hell, Bush is against "safe birthing" kits for third world countries that include such radical life-savings items as a clean plastic sheet to give birth on and a sterile razor blade to cut the umbilical cord to prevent infection. Doesn't sound very pro-life to me.

If anti-abortion crusaders were genuinely concerned about the sanctity of life, they would be targetting fertility treatments like artificial insemination. No one pickets outside of fertility clinics or assassinates fertility doctors. You see, apparently, it's okay to kill 20-30 fetuses in the process of one woman choosing to have a child. That's not the same, right? What hypocrasy!

At least the Catholic Church sends a uniform message (it opposes both on the same ethical grounds), but you won't find that among most of the anti-abortion advocates.