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Jun. 2nd, 2009 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafI don't want this to turn into a massive argument about abortion, but whether you're pro- or anti-choice, I think Slacktivist's post on the history of anti-abortion campaings in Evangelical America is an interesting read; it certainly surprised me quite a lot.
I suppose the best way to articulate my position on abortion is that it's a bit like Just War*: it's never a good thing, but there are circumstances where it's the least evil choice, and sometimes by a very clear margin, and it certainly isn't for the government to make that choice for women (and men) in what can be agonisingly difficult situations - as late-term abortions are, almost by definition. (This is probably a position that people on both sides of the argument will find wrong-headed, but there you go...)
I hope I don't need to say that murdering a doctor in cold blood in church is never, ever OK.
* And I might add that I tend to agree with the Anglo-Saxon penitentials, which required soldiers to perform some act of penance after battle, even in a good cause, because killing leaves its marks on you, even if you were, to pick the favourite military tribunal question, trying to stop a Viking from raping your sister.
I suppose the best way to articulate my position on abortion is that it's a bit like Just War*: it's never a good thing, but there are circumstances where it's the least evil choice, and sometimes by a very clear margin, and it certainly isn't for the government to make that choice for women (and men) in what can be agonisingly difficult situations - as late-term abortions are, almost by definition. (This is probably a position that people on both sides of the argument will find wrong-headed, but there you go...)
I hope I don't need to say that murdering a doctor in cold blood in church is never, ever OK.
* And I might add that I tend to agree with the Anglo-Saxon penitentials, which required soldiers to perform some act of penance after battle, even in a good cause, because killing leaves its marks on you, even if you were, to pick the favourite military tribunal question, trying to stop a Viking from raping your sister.