"Whatever happened to states’ rights, normally the partyline of the Republican party? I guess it depends on which right is at stake." We know how you feel, Jeralyn. And by "we" I mean all the men who have no reproductive rights, and who suffer through the left's sanctimonious speeches about "equality." There is no real equality around reproductive rights. Women have them, men don't. How has that escaped the purview of those, like you, who parse the constitution, seeking any and every slight and injustice? How is it that, in 2007, a supposedly intelligent person could NOT see that men are screwed in this debate, and not care? How could so much money and time and federal attention be paid to this issue and still nobody will grant men the free pass that women enjoy when faced with an unwanted pregnancy? If abortion is to remain legal, then it should be written into law that men have a choice regarding their finances. A woman can abort, or carry the fetus to term. Her choice. A man should choose if he wants to spend the next 18 years paying for that child's every need, with the feds' dirty hands in his wallet. People love to pin the responsibility on men. It's so unfair. If you do, you reinforce the notion that women are NOT responsible, which flies in the face of your other arguments, which would be that women are capable of doing the high-paying jobs that men are enjoying. Which is it? Are women helpless or capable? Everyone loves to punish men for unwanted pregnancies. "The man should have thought about that before he inserted his penis blah blah blah." That is such a childish argument, because it precludes women from any responsibility. But that's today's society. Men are to blame for everything. But is a woman partly responsible for everything that led up to the conception? Of course they are! Buy why does that fact never make it into anyone's argument? Because we don't want to hold women responsible for anything these days. After all, they are helpless victims. Well, if they are helpless and incapable, then let's take the decision-making powers away from them. With about a dozen methods of birth control, if you can't keep from getting pregnant, then give up the right to control what happens as a result. The abortion argument never fails to raise the REAL topic for me, and that is that our society is biased against MEN, too. But the hypocrisy is that nobody wants to do anything about it, even as they spout off about "equality." I think it's morally and intellectually degenerate to try to pass off abortion as "health care." That is truly preposterous. Abortion is not cancer, or treatment for a broken leg. It's the destruction of what could be a human life. If you're so comfortable on your moral soapbox, while you're up there say a thing or two about mens' lack of choice.

[...] Abortion Debate Running in Place Jeralyn has already posted about today’s Supreme Court ruling upholding a federal ban on partial-birth abortions, [...]

Abortion rights are still as safe as a babe in her mother's womb.