Of course you have so just cover your ears and talk real loud and none of it will penetrate.

Interesting point you brought up though on the federally funded abortions and how the FF's would view that concept. Since a safe surgical abortion wasn't really available to women in those days, I wonder just how women and men dealt with unwanted pregnancies back in those days (wire coat hangers weren't invented yet either). Of course in days when the driving force for having children wasn't necessarily some religious or philosophical issue as many make it today but dealt more with survival, I doubt few really wanted to end pregnancies.

But if they did, I'm curious how they went about it. It probably involved extreme abuse of the woman such as beating her gravely enough that the child would be stillborn. My guess is too that the attitudes about premature births or defects were probably pretty brutal and realistic back then when the additional burdens of having to deal with an unhealthy or crippled infant might determine a family's survival. There was probably lots of occurrences where the child was just allowed to pass (God's will) or maybe even some forms of mercy killing were allowed. That's all speculation of course but would fit human nature well. With conditions like that my guess is the debate about a medical abortion had it been available would be pretty much along the same lines it is today and possibly even tilted more into the pro-choice side. This bizarre linking of Biblical verses to the anti-abortion movement is a rather recent phenomena.

I'm not sure how progressive thinkers back then would view our tax burdens of today if they were able to look upon the incredible infrastructure those revenues gave us such as giant hydroelectric dams on on our rivers, a vast and productive transportation system, the internet, the incredible power of our military, our space program. There is simply no way you can equate that centuries revulsion with taxes that pretty much only went to the aristocracy and created hunger and poverty among the masses to the place we are today. I hate the current income tax system but we as citizens have an obligation to give back to a society that provides us such protection and economic opportunities. Somehow I'd think that a Thomas Jefferson would see the advantages the system has given us. He'd probably come up with a better method of collection though.

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