Its interesting how you relate to it.

My first summer job was at an amusement park at the beach where they played the top 40 summer hits ALL DAY. Then Kid Rock comes on and steals two great songs to make one bubble gum pop song. At least that’s how I felt in the hot summer sun dealing with little kids eating too much sugar.

To paraphrase a famous shark hunter, “I’ll never go into a ride park again without earplugs”

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Jack, I appreciate you breaking down the abortion debate into such simple terms.

I would like to see the people who want to reduce/end abortion and the people who want to reduce/end  taxation unite behind the idea that the Federal government should not be funding organizations that provide abortions.

I realize the line item is “women’s health”, but if that money needs to be spent, it seems like WIC-type programs could provide all but abortion services.

Many are appalled their tax dollars go to pay for wars that kill people around the world. People who believe unborn babies are people too detest the fact they are compelled to help pay for abortions. I’d like to see both types of government activities reduced or eliminated.

We’re given the A/B choice of for or against abortion, but there’s no reasonable discussion about the government’s role in funding the action. People who support the option for women to abort their babies should put their money where their mouth is in my opinion.

Defining “life” is a tricky business, but it seems like we should err on the side of protecting innocent people on the edges so we don’t go further down the eugenics or euthanasia path.

The future generations we’re stealing from via government debt will some day preside over our health care status. I don’t think that will go well.

As for abortion I agree with a quote from Roe V. Wade: “upon the interim point at which the fetus becomes “viable,” that is, potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb, albeit with artificial aid. [59] Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks”. 

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade/Opinion_of_the_Court#ref_59

The idea is that if a group of cells cannot survive without being attached to another life, then it is just a group of cells. As science gets better this number may get shorter.  I found one article that quoted 21 weeks and 5 days.  This also goes for old age, as there is always cases where a life could be saved if organs could be taken from another, but we don’t do that, unless they volunteer.  Any other action enslaves one to serve the other.