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p> PILATE POLITICS br> Re: George Neumayr's Abortion is Un-American : /p>

Mr. Neumayr's case against abortion is eloquent and convincing... in a vacuum. To the pro- and anti-abortionist crowds in this country, this is a binary issue: off/on, good/bad, right/wrong, black/white. No gray area. Does anyone have any area of their lives that falls into those neat little categories?

p>It is time the anti-abortionists go beyond stale rhetoric and begin to show their seriousness with deeds and not words. Why not adopt all of the children in foster care so that there is room in the system for the 1.5 million additional children that will be born each year? Why not setup a system for caring for these unwanted and uncared-for children that will flood the U.S. each year? I am not pro- or anti-abortion, just sick of the rhetoric of both sides that continually fail to deal with the issue in any meaningful way. br> -- Ben Berry br> Washington, D.C. /p>

This is a very fine article.

I do not understand why our conservative writers, journalists, and politicians continue to use the term "democracy" when our founding fathers greatly feared that term for our government and society. The United States was founded a Republic and as a Republic, a government ruled by law (not the will of man).

Further, the Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution to protect the individual states from federal interference in those areas of state's rights and was not ratified until they were added. Now most interpret the Bill of Rights are there to protect the individual from local and state government allowing the federal government to create all kinds of social, educational, and economic programs that run into billions of dollars.

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