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Unenforced and unenforceable laws SHOULD be taken off the books, laws like that lull people into believing that something is being done about the problem when in reality it isn't.


If Catholics believed in reincarnation I'd suspect that Pale was the return of Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator who decreed a death penalty for any woman who had an abortion. It didn't work very well, in fact it was a disaster because ol' Nico did exactly what Pale is recommending: pass the law making abortion illegal and THEN try to figure out how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of unwanted babies. Ceausescu couldn't figure it out and when the population revolted and put him to death there were orphanages all over the country overflowing with sick, neglected, starving babies that no one wanted.  Pale always tries to make it a discussion of why an innocent should be killed, but the discussion is really about the lesser of two evils, aborting fetuses that no one wants or forcing women to carry and birth them first and then letting them die by inches in a culture that hates welfare and has continually reduced money for the care of infants, children and pregnant women.  Ronald Reagan is the poster boy for this attitude with his belief that: Life begins at conception and ends at birth.


I don't know how many abortions are done each year in this country, but I do know that the systems for caring for unwanted children are stretched to the breaking point right now and if we do as Pale's emotional appeals ask, then we will dump tens of thousands more unwanted babies into a system that doesn't want and cannot care for the ones that is has right now. It will be just like in Romania, an unmitigated disaster--for which women will receive the majority of suffering and blame.


I think that the idea of new and better birth control products is a good one, but let's get them online before we ban the tools we have now.  If the religious people and Pale, are so unhappy with things as they are now, then they should put political pressure on the government to fund more research and give money themselves for research.


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