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Anti-Abortion Group Claims Scott Roeder is 'Not One of Us'

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spudly6/01/2009 11:50:10 am PDT

It’s too bad that the activists (on BOTH sides) cannot be less extreme. There is clearly a difference between early and late term abortion, for example (rationally, not from the religious POV, which tends towards absolutism).

Some sort of middle ground policy would end some of the horrors shown in that video (I’m neither “anti-abortion” nor “entirely “pro-abortion” BTW). If the late term procedure was banned (as it should be, IMO, there is virtually no medical reason for it), the ability to suborn a murder the way this video may well have would be very much more difficult—it’s harder to raise the emotional level to homicidal violence over 16 cells than a clearly dismembered baby.

Such a centrist position would also be supported by substantial majorities of both parties, IMO (Ie: OK early with little if any restriction, not OK late-term… the middle, then it gets ugly, probably—but no more than the battle between camps is already).