Where Angels Fear To Tread

Where Angels Fear To Tread - Give me all the good old-fashioned conservative hot-wire topics; American Exceptionalism, Firearms Owners Rights, Taxes, the Nannystate, whatever; I'll eat 'em for breakfast and ask for more.

But I've tended to avoid abortion. It's not that I don't have an opinion on the subject - it's just that it won't fit into a seven-second soundbite. The libertarian in me doesn't want government regulating it (or paying for it); the Christian and conservative doesn't want people getting them; and to be fair, "choice" needs to be more than just that of the mother.

It's an issue where 20 percent of the population would ban the procedure, 20 percent regards it as a sacrament...and 60 percent is somewhere in the gray area in between.

It is, in short, an issue where, despite the raw emotionality of the topic, reasonable people can disagree.

The problem is, some of the parties to the debate just aren't reasonable:

The head of the National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is opposing a double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case, saying it could provide ammunition to the pro-life lobby.

"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday

Ah. Better that a murder go unatoned than the pro-"choice" lobby be faced with a legal inconvenience.

The rest of the article is more of the same. It shows how far we have not come.

Kerry's Priorities - John Kerry was busy raising funds during the funeral of the first Massachusetts soldier to die in Iraq, according to Drudge:

So why wasn't U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry [D-MA] at last week's funeral of Matthew Boule, 22, the Dracut, Massachusetts native who was the state's first soldier to die in the Iraq war?

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was in Arizona on Tuesday -- fundraising and campaigning -- the very hour Boule was being buried, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

How very...Clintonian.

Posted by Mitch at April 21, 2003 06:39 AM