Ye gods.. -laughs- This is like the Blog wars, isn't it? But I just have to respond to Annie. It feels like backing down if I don't, and I won't be cowed. Not by someone who calls me immoral, and never thinks for the consequences in my thoughts. It's so stupid to harp on a comment so carelessly tossed, and yet I do. I do because for all that we know each other very little, Annie is something of a pillar in my life. She's been in it long enough that it is what she is to me, for all that she participates very little in it.

Better that a life be discarded than let it come into the world unwanted? Who are you to judge if that baby is unwanted? So the parents might not have wanted this baby...what about the grandparents? The neighbors next door who haven't seen a close up baby in a decade? The lonely widower who lives three doors down? God?

I am not the one to judge, nor have I implied that I was. However, I feel that the option should be available to the parents, should they not want to go through the pain of having a child. I know that an abortion can be a painful thing for parents and babies alike. And yet I think it's better than the lifetime of regret that might be left at the parents' door if they should simply abandon the baby to the orphange. At least in death, according to Christian doctrine, the babies are given a chance at happiness.

...every single baby is wanted , in some way or another.

Walk a mile in these sneakers, dear, and say that again. I've heard that comment so many times, and it's always used to cover a hypocrisy, a tyranny. This may just be me. And then again, it may not be.

How can you say that Abortion is right because that child wouldn't be loved anyways, when in reality that child may very well be loved and grow up to become an amazing person.

We all have that self-same potential. And I'm not saying that the child wouldn't be loved anyways, I'm saying that in a way, the parent may always resent them for whatever life course they'd have to take if they bore the child. If they abandoned the child, they may brood upon it with regrets for the rest of their life. And I don't care how they sinned- if you don't have empathy for a person in pain, you're not a true Christian. No one deserves to suffer for the entirety of their lifetime.

How can you know that when that child grows up he or she inspires the world in more ways than you can imagine, when you don't give them the chance? How can you claim that you're doing the child a favor when in truth you just don't know if they will view it as a favor, because they'll never get a chance to plead for their life?

I don't believe I said that I was doing the child a favor. However, in lieu of the unsentinent child, the parents are required to make decisions. You can only sit and pray and hope that they make the correct ones, but in the end, even you, with your forceful brutality and vivid passion for 'what is right', cannot force their hand, force them to do what you want them to do. People are not your pawns, Annie. They are not toys for you, or any Greater Being to manipulate.

We have always been mortal, and bound, chained to our fates. But we can choose what chains we have, and that's what makes us unpredictable.

How can you believe in a society where mistakes are always met by consequences, when in this case mistakes are met by murder?

I prefer to think of it as a mistake being rectified. Not in the best way, perhaps-- because I do know that death isn't the best way to solve this-- but rectified all the same.

The place where we differ, Annie, is that you believe that the child should be spared all the pain at birth, and given more when it is born, and that the parent should suffer, because they sinned. I'd like to spare them pain all around, though the parent may suffer regrets over the abortion. But I can't help that. And as far as I can see, it's the best way to go. But then, in the end, it's still up to the parents.

How can you think that just because people are doing it everywhere, that it's right, morally.

I didn't say that people are doing it everywhere with the implications that it's right- just that people are doing it still, regardless of its morality.

How can you build a government on democracy and justice...what type of justice do those babies get?

Surely you don't think that you were sensible enough to make your own decisions when you were a baby? Some decisions simply have to be made by those who are conscious enough to make them.

And when you make it illegal, maybe, just maybe, people will think twice before trying to play God with their own hands. And Mr. Kerry believes in this...

Have you ever heard the term "flesh of my flesh, and blood of my blood"?

We are no longer God's creations. We are the mutilated, the mutated descendents of the pure beings that God created. We are the warped, the changed, who must live out our lives as best we can. And the best that I can see is to unmake what has been seeded in the womb, late though the plucking be, though early, and it spoil the fruit.

I honestly don't give a damn about Mr. Kerry-- however, you said that he supported legal abortion, which I agreed with. Which was how that came about.

Any more questions?