The potential of life

abortion would be considered to be the same terrible act of brutality that has been seen as for the last 1000 years

anon, I think you must be at least partially mistaken here. For if there had been total agreement on your view of abortion for 1000 years, why would there be any controversy now? Clearly, while some people agree with you, many do not. I don't have a quote to prove it, but my impression is that Margaret Sanger saw abortion as a brutal experience for the woman. Which indeed it was, given the methods of the time. And yet, many women, even then, were more willing to subject themselves to this brutality than they were to give birth to a child they didn't want or didn't feel able to care for. This would seem to show that in some cases, women themselves consider childbirth more brutal than abortion. How do you explain that?

i explain it the same way i explain how slave holders claimed that african americans weren't full human beings and should be treated as property.

anon,
where do you get that I am pro-choice?

THIS ad supports consequentialism.
Moro has it right. This is a silly, ridiculous argument. The immorality of abortion does not depend on the identity of the aborted.

An, uh, obviously, not all young unmarried or unstably married women abort, even Democrats, even those carrying biracial babies, so why do you assume that Obama's non-abortion is strictly a function of the year he was born.