zrm (02/15/83)
I've found almost no troglodyte (sp?) conservatives in this discussion group who've been thumping their Bibles on the net. Furthermore, I find most people out there who fancy themselves liberals painting things too black and white. Government funded abortions have a place, and that place is where all other medical procedures are supported for those that can't afford them. On the other hand, there is no reason to fund abortions outside the same guidlines as apendectomies are funded. An interesting difference between leftist and rightist editorial opinion on the subject of abortion is that almost every leftist in print opines for the most liberal and spendthrift abortion laws, while The National Review, on the right, has taken a conspicuously neutral stand when it is highly partisan on almost every other issue. Bringing out my extra broad brush, I think the abortion issue has painted mainstream conservatives as the sort of people who know when to duck an issue, defaulting to the judgement off the individual, while the liberals have been going out of their way to get crucified as fetus flushing facists. RR in '84 Zig