Abortion
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament"
Florynce Kennedy
Abortion is a hot-button issue, one that touches deeply the innermost questions of man's religious and moral beliefs and government is at its worst when it argues its right to legislate such matters. In fact, to the degree that abortion is most often a cause where God and religion are called as witnesses, government is prevented from the debate by constitutional separations of church and state. Yet prevention is not enough, in the furious dialog we demand to know where our candidates stand.
I stand exactly on the same ground from which I consider all matters of philosophy or religion, intrigued by the arguments on either side and between the cracks of such matters, interjecting my own thoughts with vigor. Then, I would hope, coming away with somewhat modified opinions and eager to sit in once more where intelligent thought respects another's intelligent thought. Maybe that's a cop-out, but there are many things i…