LINK: I was perusing evangelical outpost's thoughtful argument on Wes Clark's position on abortion, and I realized that my previous objection to attacks against Clark may not have made my own position clear. Three things I think about abortion:
1. I have no problem with the partial-birth abortion ban, though stating this preference left a few of my friends aghast.
2. I think pro-choicers tend to underplay or ignore the emotional effects of abortion, but, having neither a uterus, nor ever having had an abortion myself, I'd like to minimize everyone's perception of how strongly I make that claim... I just sort of suspect that there's a tremendous emotional/psychological question involved.
3. I think Roe v Wade needs to be overturned, if only to get away from all the bad law that's piled up behind it (Planned Parenthood v Casey) and to make the debate about abortion about abortion again, and not regulations for abortion clinics and other sneaky back-door ways of not taking the issue head-on.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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