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So, where do you draw the line?
Tom Brosz — (archived)

A lot of people on this planet think women should be property. Those are beliefs, and their laws reflect them. Right or wrong? Many people in this country once believed that certain races were inherently inferior. Other people's values were certainly forced on them.

The problem with the abortion issue is if one believes that a fetus (at whatever stage) is human, then one is justified in invoking the law to protect it. If one does not, then the justification does not follow either. The extremists on either side are not about to compromise, one side fighting against laws preventing partial-birth abortion, the other side fighting against birth control methods that prevent egg implantation. Neither side willing to meet somewhere in the middle, which is where most Americans are comfortable with this issue.

I don't have an easy answer for this any more than anyone else does.

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