[Protoclown]

And what about the innocent civilian who just happens to get caught in a bomb blast?

As for the abortion issue, Rorshach, I am still pro-life on a personal level. After a great deal of thinking however, I have realized that politically, I had to change and become pro-choice. Because I honestly believed that in certain situations (rape, where the mother would die, etc) it WAS okay, I realized that you can't have it both ways. You can't pick and choose...condone "murder" in certain situations and condemn it in others. Where does one draw the line, after all? Any distinction would have to be rather arbitrary in nature, and there will never be agreement over it. It's all or nothing, and to continue to remain wishy-washy over the issue made me a hypocrite, in my own estimation. I'm having a debate about this very thing with VinceZeb in another thread, and I'm using the same realization that I had to try to illustrate to him that there is no such thing as a black and white morality. Only in theory, not in practice. The world isn't nearly so clean or precise.

I still abhor abortion as an after-the-fact method of birth control, I find that to be an utterly vile act resulting from the worst sort of irresponsibility. HOWEVER, I believe that the law has to protect the right of other people to make their own personal choices, whether I agree with them or not. Who am I to say that abortion is okay in SOME situations but not others? What gives ME that authority? These are decisions that we each have to make for ourselves and live with the consequences.

We will NEVER know the exact moment life begins because we cannot agree on a DEFINITION of terms. Maybe it IS murdering a being with a soul, maybe it is not. It depends on when you think that being of pure potential actually becomes a real person. This is something there IS no scientific measure for, and there never will be. I only know that I would consider it horrible to doom a mother to almost certain death or force her to carry a baby that is the result of rape because of laws that make abortion illegal in ANY situation.

So I stand by the right to abortion. I may not agree with it in every circumstance, but I do not believe it is MY place to enforce my own personal definitions of life on others, or to influence their decisions.

So I would still say that I respect all human life, regardless of how you may disagree.