Options, when does actual thought begin in a child’s life? If humanity =thought then when do you consider a child as a thinking individual? I hope you were using that equasion as a means to define the difference between a human “collection of cells” and plant life and not as a determining factor on how late a woman can have an abortion.

Yes it is. Why do you feel the need to sugarcoat the reality that abortion is the act of killing a human albeit in a very early stage of development?

Earlier this year, there was a bill brought up in the Indiana senate that would have mandated every girl entering grade 6 to receive the Gardasil vaccine. The ensuing debate did not revolve around the vaccine’s effectiveness, how much it cost, or even the fact that Merck was clearly trying to maximize its profits. No, the debate centered around morality and how it would send a mixed signal.

Judging from some of the messages that I seen in local message boards and the letters to the editor, some of the members of the religious community were also viewing it as the removal of a deterrent and punishment to having sex before marriage.

When I was in high school, my high school had the highest pregnancy rate in the area. What was the solution that the board chose? To have someone come every couple months to preach (let’s just say separation of church and state is a foreign concept where I grew up) abstinence and to scare us into not even looking at a member of the opposite sex. Guess what? Nothing changed as of the last I checked. However, I do recall at least one of these speakers actually using the word punishment in the context of what it would do your life.

Now as to whether or not my take on what Obama meant with that phrase, I don’t know. I am a person who tends to give people more of a benefit of the doubt more than what they deserve at times. If my view is correct, he certainly didn’t think it through enough.

Palin is the saviour now huh? Maybe you should read this from somone who knows her:

http://my2bucks.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/a-letter-from-someone-who-has-known-sarah-palin-since-1992/

Or this from CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATORS:

http://politicalirony.com/2008/09/02/palins-lawyer-uses-a-very-bad-example/

Deb, president of the Harvard Law Review and a U. Chicago Lecturer are quite a bit more challenging than mayor of Wassila. If the parties were reversed you wouldn’t stop laughing. Stop being a partisan and open your eyes.

Also, the death penalty has NOT always killed the guilty and I find it amazing that you can reconcile man’s ability to determine guilt and death but you can’t rely on man’s ability to determine life.