Yo, CD, to your last question. If you are black in America, your chances of making 29 outside of incarceration or the morgue are less than 80%. That's not too good.

Yes one in five black men will be either incarcerated or dead by the time they reach their 29th birthday. The percentages go way down at 40 years old and 50, 53, 58, 60....

Now I probably wouldn't have as strong an opinion on this issue if it weren't for what I have seen. White folks have always been able to get thiese little "annoyances" handled. Black folks and poor white's haven't.

My position is based more on the socioeconomics andm fairness rather than abortion in its self. I just think there should be a level playing field and if that means supporting "pro-choice" carte blanche then so be it.

And yeah, CD, you guessed my socioeconomic background pretty well. Having grown up in a middle class family and going off to college, I disappointed my family by emerging myself completely in the area of social work, which paid lousy but allowed me to live with a lot of folks that I am blessed to know and have known. My proudest moment, as a white kid from the middle class was the night that I was first called a "nigga" by a black man. And after that moment I knew what it meant to be a "nigga". And still do.

So my feeling are carved more from a position of fairness coupled with reality. Hey, I can live with that.

Bobert