Abortion

Here are my positions:

1. I take the traditional conservative position, that the best government is the least government. This is not an issue for the government to be involved.
2. I am pro-life. I am opposed to abortion in most circumstances.
3. I am pro-choice. It is not up to me to force my moral view on others. It is up to the potential mother to make her own moral choices.

I would put it a little differently. I say that it is my moral obligation to avoid putting a woman in a position where she would want an abortion. It's not up to me to decide what is the woman's moral obligation. I agree. That's an argument for birth control. It should not be an argument for abortion.

That was the direction we were heading before Roe v. Wade. I think New York had allowed abortion, or was getting close. It was still a few years away in other states. Roe v. Wade short circuited the political process, and was probably a mistake. It would have been better if this had been worked out through the political system.But I think we can't go back to the status before Roe v. Wade. Too much has changed since then.