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Originally posted by sgtclub
I've been following this conversation for pages now, and the one thing I can't figure out is why were you guys are equating desegration with abortion rights. You seem to believe that, like segregation, the pro-life folks are just objectively wrong, without considering that there may be something to the protecting life argument. In other words, the comparison is certainly not perfect, and this is not JUST a question of civil rights. That is why the federalism side of the argument is very attractive to many . . . because, unlike segregation, we just don't know enough to know who is right on this issue.
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I put the rabbit in the hat there. Nice catch. I was wondering when somebody'd flag that...
I doing so, you also highlighted the real anti-abortion position. Why can't we just have the open debate about abortion? I think its because the pro-lifers fear that the majority of America would view it as a necessary right of women. As I said earlier, if put to referendum nationally, abortion would remain legal. Perhaps restricted a bit, but legal. Thats why the pro-lifers have hidden behind this bullshit federalist agenda. It puts them in bed with the gun lobby and all the other interests who want the fed govt OFF their back. They get to push their agenda as though they're being denied a right, when all they're trying to really do is deny other people's rights at the state level.
Its the pro-lifers dishonest hijacking of federalism that makes them so loathesome.
