Reply #261: You make some good points BUT

[liberalpragmatist]

I'm not calling for women to be imprisoned. That would be ineffective. A fine, perhaps.

Moreover, you're right - almost every other country in the world has settled the abortion issue - on grounds that you would find insufficient. In most of Europe, abortions are only legal w/out question within the first or second trimesters. Look it up. It's true.

Frankly, I think those are the lines on which we should have legalized abortion. I agree with Roe v. Wade, but I think a strong case can be made that b/c the issue was never settled by Congress, we never had the kind of debate other countries had - it was judicial legalization, and while I agree with Roe v. Wade and am glad it happened, I do think it has made the debate far longer than it has existed anywhere else.

And yes, I realize I'm breaking my own rule of not responding. Sorry. I won't do it again.