No, not really, CD. My views are held by one of the 284,000,000 folks in this country. No more, no less. But they do represent 1/284,000,000th of the views held by the American people.

My perspective comes from years of working in civil rights and with folks who we don't hear from here. The truely impoverished. My experiences in social work brought me in close contact with folks who you, CD, probably know nothing about. I have worked with folks in the projects in South Richmond and in Churchill of Richmond. My motivation comes from reality. Not fantasy. The streets. Not Wall Street.

Where I am personally anit-abortion I am still topuched by the reality of poor women, abandoned by paternal fathers, left in the projects to cope. You don't know of this level of coping, GUEST. I know in my heart that you cannot posssibly fathom the despair of living in the projects. The absolute horror of knowing there is no way out. The violence. The pain of hunger. The pain of having a child shot dead while playing in front of his or her house. I've been there! You haven't!

So, when a woman comes up pregnant andf cannot bear the suffering of yet another unwanted child, yes, I can accept her *choice* to not take on what can push the situation beyond the point of sanity. You can't. You have never seen this. I have.

Now, in a world where Suzie Creamcheeze flies off in a Bohing 747 for an abortion/vacation out of the country, it is unfathomable that you, and folks like you say to the impoverished: Screw you, you slut!

Yeah, take your elitist, pseudo-Christain, caring butt into the ghettos of America and come back and tell me that you still think your position is one that God has given you.

Bobert