The answer is YES. Sorry it took you five hours to figure it out.

I can’t vote for republicans because they can’t seem to keep their religion out of politics. I can’t vote for democrats cause they just raise my taxes and are general morons. I can’t vote for libertarians cause they can’t win….. Anybody down for a revolution where in the end we place a monkey in charge?

As long as the monkey’s photogenic, I’m all for it.

This bill will be passed by both chambers, vetoed, and overridden in 2010.

Mr. Messenger, you really need to call out the Democrats on this one. The reason so much time is being spent on this bill is because the Democrats are fillibustering.

Should the protection of innocent life be a priority? It’s a pretty simple answer, isn’t it? Abortion kills over 1 million babies a year? It is the leading cause of premature death.

Any logical person’s default position should be that human life is good. Ending human life is bad. When human life is to be ended, then each politican and person for that matter should provide a good argument to why it is justified. Does the party-going chick who just wants to drink, screw, and avoid consequences really have such a good argument to end a life?

larry,

This isn’t a religious issue. It is basic biology. Human life begins when an egg is fertilized. You learned that in Junior High. If you think the ability to end another person’s life is a libertarian issue, then I think you are a bit punch drunk.

” Human life begins when an egg is fertilized. You learned that in Junior High.”

I don’t remember seeing this in any biology textbook–elementary thru college. Perhaps the parochial schools have a “special” edition.

I like that column a couple of days ago, that says that anti-abortion does not necessarily logically imply pro-life. Generally, the religious right wants to forbid abortions. But these are also the same people (according to the apparent party platform) that don’t want to pay taxes for schools or help other people support their children, support the war (maybe life at 18 is less valuable?), and support the death penalty. Apparently, all life is sacred… unless it isn’t. To me, it’s offensive because it stinks of a control issue, rather than one of morality, because birth control doesn’t actually kill babies, but they don’t like that one either. A bunch of men who want to force women to live according to their rules.

The anti-abortion folks are an election too late. With Nixon in office and President Obama, they’re out of luck till 2012. The Republicans may be playing to a portion of their base, but they’re losing more votes than they’re gaining. It would seem part of politics is timing and picking winnable fights.