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Guess who stuck a "Kick me!" sign on his own back?

What a dumbass.

Who's pro-abortion?

That's Kevin Woster's rhetorical question here at blogmore - "Is anybody really pro-abortion? Could anybody really be pro-abortion?"

Woster would have us believe no one is really pro-abortion. Wouldn't it be nice if that were true?

Of course the reverse is true - lots and lots of us are pro-abortion. That's why abortion is legally protected in every state in the union. That's why every attempt to ban the practice is fought at every turn. That's why HB 1215 was referred to the ballot. Because many, many people are pro-abortion.

Every voter who votes against Referred Law 6 is, by their actions, pro-abortion. They are acting to preserve the legal protections for abortion. How much more pro-abortion can you be?

Later in his post, Woster devolves to a discussion of "feelings". He writes: "I know people who truly are anti-abortion, who truly find it abhorrent, but say they can’t bring themselves to vote for this particular bill." By "are" we can only assume Woster means "feel like they are". Because someone who says they find abortion abhorrent but who votes to keep the act legal certainly is not, based on the objective measure of their actions, anti-abortion. They may "feel" like they are anti-abortion. But they are pro-abortion.

Who's pro-abortion? Everyone who votes "no" on Referred Law 6, they're all pro-abortion.

It's time to stop screwing around with dishonest euphemisms like "pro-choice" and acknowledge that people who act to keep abortion legal are, as a matter of fact, pro-abortion.

What's it all about, Alphie?

Progressive on the Prairie defends his opposition to Referred Law 6 here. He opposes Referred Law 6 because it doesn't allow killing of the unborn when their existence threatens the health of their mother. He claims he's stepping into the abortion debate but declines to discuss the merits of abortion.

Philosophically the vast majority of South Dakotans oppose abortion and believe that about 98% of abortions currently performed should be illegal. I suspect the core opponents to Referred Law 6 want abortion to remain legal in all cases. But, as that argument doesn't win in South Dakota, they take the debate away from South Dakotan's philospohy on abortion and suggest a new standard - the perfect law.

Referred Law 6 isn't perfect it's opponents say, so we must reject it. "We oppose abortion", many of them suggest, "but this is too much". I don't buy it. People I know who actually oppose abortion support a ban on the practice.

The "Opposed to abortion, but no on 6 without changes." argument stinks on several levels. Should Referred Law 6 pass, it could be amended in any of the many years that will pass before it becomes effective due to the lawsuits that will inevitably be filed to challenge it. If one actually opposed abortion but had problems with 1% or 2% of the abortions that would be banned by 6, or with its allowance of emergency contraception, they would have plenty of opportunities to amend the law.

If someone actually opposed abortion for the killing it is, they might reasonably accept an opportunity to save the 800+ lives lost each year to abortionist's knives and chemicals as the greater good than the lives that would be impacted, not killed, but significantly impacted by the inability to kill the child of a rapist or the inability to kill a child whose existance threatened their health, or the lives that would still be lost to emergency contraception.

Had we applied the "perfect law" standard to the US constitution or to most laws on their initial passage, we'd have no constitution, we'd have no laws.

Some think the perfect abortion law would ban emergency contraception and that Referred Law 6 doesn't go far enough. Some think abortion should be permitted in cases of rape or incest or grave threats to the health of the mother and that Referred Law 6 goes too far.

Referred Law 6 is about abortion. It's about whether we believe it is right or wrong to kill an unborn child. If you think it's wrong to kill an unborn child, you should vote yes on 6. If you think it's right to kill an unborn child, you should vote no on 6.

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Follow-up --

I added this comment at Progressive's blog:

I should have put my name on the bottom of my 10:06 comment.

I polished it a bit and posted it here: http://house.typepad.com/house/2006/10/its_about_abort.html

Tim, it would be interesting to see you step into the abortion ban debate. That is, Should abortion be banned in South Dakota?

Unfortunately we don't seem to be debating an abortion ban in South Dakota but rather pursuing a philsophy of "Hard cases make good law."

Leaving the question of exceptions, if any, to a follow-up debate (in legislative sessions to come) I'd like to see South Dakotans have an actual abortion ban debate: "Resolved, that abortion leads to the killing of human persons and so should be outlawed save for rare and specific cases to be determined by the people through their legislature."

Charley House

Mayor Mike

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If you're suffering from an abscessed tooth or a festering boil and need something to distract you from THAT agony, read this.

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Listen here.

Mt. Gladys Kravitz-more

Wow, I have to check my clock - I didn't realize it's tempest in a teapot time!

Bill Harlan, Chiseler-in-Chief at Mt.Blogmore is Up In Arms over the behavior of commentors including yours truly.

The other day I clicked on Blogmore and saw “SD senators get a Prairie Home spanking”. Garrison Keillor has some talents but moral authority isn’t one of them and I thought “---- ---“ (A two word phrase with an ancient Anglo-Saxon word meaning, among other things, intercourse followed by the objective case of he). So I typed “---- ---“ and hit “Say it!”

That was it. To the extent I thought about it I figured it would get swept out with the trash or, best case, get posted (gasp!). Done and next.

Well I was surprised and delighted when I started getting e-mails from Harlan about it. I missed his comment but now am tickled to see I’ve turned the gas up under his ire to the point where it’s contributing to a post. Wheee!!

To Spearfreak I say "Good riddance!"

To Bill I say "Stay on top of this!! Don't falter! This is very, VERY important!!

Heh, heh!

God called me to make this post.

Glen Brenner is the Kevin Schieffer of Pennington County.