Partial Birth Abortion

Gosh, you don't think that's doing this subject a bit of a disservice?The fact that we go round and round on this topic is pretty conclusive evidence that it's a fuckin' complex issue. I hardly think it's fair to expect Jar to translate that into the finite set of platitiudes you're asking for.The position of a moral relativist is that many moral situations are too complicated to be represented by a short list of generalities. You do Jar and the topic a disservice, I feel, by suggesting that it's a "cop-out" to recognize that.

Well, it can sometimes take up to 3 months to find out you're pregnant. Add another two weeks of soul-searching and a few more months to actually arrange the abortion - as many states don't have the facilities or trained personnel to perform and abortion after the first trimester - and you could easily be at the 8-month line before an abortion can finally be performed.

Yeah, no shit. What a great message the Catholic Church sent: "Dear women: you have no worth except as a vessel for the unborn."

That's a pretty severe misstatement of my post, I have to say.Since you missed it, the woman in the scenario I proposed actually decided to have the abortion 3 1/2 months into the pregnancy. The rest of the time is often how long it takes for a low-income person to locate a doctor who can perform the procedure and raise the cash to travel to the location and pay for it.