It isn't a matter of whether you agree with it (that's a non sequitur, as are eating meat on Fridays and the Inquisition), it's why you wouldn't understand that people who believe abortion involves murdering innocent, helpless human life are so appalled by it and feel it's their duty to help save all those lives, no matter what it takes.
I reject their premise, and I'm very firmly pro-choice, but I have no trouble understanding why it upsets them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Emily, I began leaving the Catholic Church when I was 17 and they said it was no longer a mortal sin to eat meat on Friday. The final straw occurred a year later when I was sitting in my boyfriend's World History class and learned about the Inquisition. This was all in the late 60s and abortion was not yet the inflammatory issue it is now. I understand that people think the foetus is a person and that it's killing a person but I don't agree with this POV. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:20 PM, "emilymaenot@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Share, did you not say you were raised Catholic? How could you not understand the issue well enough to understand "some people getting fanatical about it"? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Judy, sure I've heard the arguments against abortion. Yet I still think some people get fanatical about it and that is what I don't understand. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:59 AM, "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Have you really never read or heard any of the arguments against abortion? That's hard to believe. BTW, abortion is not necessarily always a "personal tragedy" to those who have one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Lawson, I admit I'm flummoxed by peoples' fanatical position on Roe vs. Wade. What is that about?! Abortion is a personal tragedy for sure. But why does the religious right try to turn it into a matter of public policy?! On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:06 AM, "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Saunders isn't a corporatist, and I certainly would vote for him in a national election. But I would never, ever vote for him in a primary. Lesser of two evils issues are all we CAN get in Presidential races and all we will ever get unless we take a page from the political book of the Religious Right, who have been working to overturn Roe v Wade since the day it started by starting from the very bottom and voting in sympathetic dog catchers and school board members who then run for higher political officer after they establish their political credentials. Moderates and liberals simply don't have the multi-generational fanaticism to play that game, counting on people's "better nature," instead. The Religious Right knows that there's no such thing [the Bible told them so], so they always assume the worst about everyone and manipulate, er, act accordingly. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <raunchydog@...> wrote : So who isn't a corporatist? Obama? Or didn't you know that when you voted for him?
