RANDY RANTS AT REPUBLICAN--ABORTION IDEAS

BLOOD IS SPURTING FROM MY EYES--now that I've listened to their crazy ideas on this vital subject.  I CAN---AND SO I WILL SPEAK MY MIND:  THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ARE EARTHSHAKINGLY, DISASTEROUSLY WRONG ABOUT ABORTION:

• A FERTILIZED HUMAN EGG IS NOT A PERSON----ANY MORE THAN  AN ACORN IS AN OAK TREE.  

• BOTH  ACORN AND  EGG -- TAPER GRADUALLY INTO SIGNIFICANCE. 

• UNTIL THEY HAVE REACHED THE POINT OF SIGNIFICANCE IT IS BOTH LEGAL AND MORAL TO DESTROY THEM. THEY ARE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF EXPENDABILITY.

• THERE ARE GOOD REASONS TO DESTROY BOTH.  UNWANTED BABIES ARE A CURSE ON THE WORLD; AND IT IS IRRATIONAL TO TRY TO PRESERVE EVERY ACORN.

• THE SUPREME COURT HAS DECIDED THAT 22 WEEKS SHALL BE THE LIMIT OF EXPENDABILITY FOR FERTILIZED HUMAN EGGS. (In most cases)(Roe v Wade etc) Beyond these limits we forbid the killing of fetuses because it offends our collective sensibilities.

• MANY CITIES HAVE DECIDED THAT 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER SHALL BE THE LIMIT OF EXPENDABILITY FOR OAK TREES.  (destroying any larger oak tree requires a permit)
• 22 WEEKS FOR ZYGOTES AND 3 INCHES FOR OAK TREES MAY SEEM TO BE (and indeed are somewhat)  ARBITRARY NUMBERS(could have been 21 weeks or 3 and a half inches)  BUT THEY ARE BOTH REASONABLE  GUESSES AND HAVE BEEN SET BY DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
• IT WAS DIFFICULT , CONTROVERSIAL AND COURAGEOUS TO DRAW THESE SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY LINES BUT THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR A FUNCTIONING SOCIETY.     

• BECAUSE---IF YOU DO NOT LIKE  SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY LINES---(reasonable guesses)-THEN YOU DO NOT LIKE CIVILIZATION---FOR (somewhat) ARBITRARY LINES ARE LARGELY WHAT DEFINES A CIVILIZATION:(speed limits, voting age, marriagable age, alcohol consumption, election elgibility)(indeed our constitution itself is mostly a long list of (somewhat)ARBITRARY limits) 

• We could (and may) move the limits slightly, more or less, for both. But WE CANNOT MOVE THE LIMIT BACK TO ZERO AS THE REPUBLICANS ADVOCATE WITHOUT IMPOSING GREAT CRUELTY ON WOMEN FORCING THEM TO BEAR CHILDREN THEY DO NOT WANT.  

• IT IS FANATICAL TO BELIEVE THAT A FERTILIZED EGG---BARELY VISIBLE TO THE EYE-- IS AS IMPORTANT AS ---SAY--A 3 YEAR OLD CHILD. ( prove it to yourself: imagine a fertility clinic is on fire and you only have time to save the 3 year old or 10 fertilized eggs in a pitri dish.  Which would you save? )

• REPUBLICANS I KNOW DO NOT WANT TO BE CLASSED WITH FANATICS--AND YET THEY HAVE MADE COMMON CAUSE WITH  RELIGIOUS FANATICS TO GET THEIR VOTES.

•   TO AVOID THE HORRORS  OF AN OVERPOPULATED WORLD WE MUST CHANGE THEIR MINDS ALONG WITH THE MINDS OF MUSLIMS, MORMONS, CATHOLICS AND FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS AND JEWS--ABOUT ABORTION.  IT MUST REMAIN SAFE, LEGAL---AND HOPEFULLY RARE.

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