The Abortion Debate, Driven by Emotion on Both Sides of the Issue...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Lib e rty -vs- Tyr a nny Debate over a women's reproductive rights, or put another way the right of a woman to select abortion continues. This nation, as a result of the SCOTUS 1973 decision legalizing abortion took the back alley abortion practice that was all to common before 1973 off the table. This was certainly a humane positive move forward. Yet here we are today in the month of July 2013 even more polarized and irrationally inclined than perhaps we were in 1973. Any reasonable and rational individual recognizes that abortion, certainly for the purpose of this discussion, means to terminate a developing fetus and thus the potential for human life. These same reasonable and rational individuals also realize that prior to a certain point in gestation the developing fetus is incapable of surviving outside the womb of the host female uterus, even with life support systems to keep it alive. Up until this point in gestation, typically...