nathan1977
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Conceding this point would be a great start for our conservative posters on the forum.
The conservatism that undergirds the legislation is a fact that I can certainly recognize. I can also certainly recognize that the Akins of the world are idiots; so can voters, who turned those loons out of office pretty quickly, and good for them.
As someone who, as I said earlier, considers himself privately pro-life but publicly realistic, I realize that abortion is an unfortunate and sometimes tragic medical necessity. As a result, I don't think it's constructive to label people on the left a baby-killer, the same way I don't think it's constructive to label people on the right woman-haters. Judging the motivation of legislators as a result, for me, holds about the same weight as the slippery-slope argument.