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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Mexico and Abortion

With McCain the present 5-4 upholding of Roe Vs Wade would change. McCain favors the four anti-abortion Supreme Court justices and in a McCain administration, he would install a fifth and maybe a sixth as well.

Breitbart.com: Mexican Supreme Court upholds legal abortion
Mexico's Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico—and perhaps beyond.

But conservative President Felipe Calderon, whose administration appealed the Mexico City law to the Supreme Court, is unlikely to stop fighting efforts to expand the availability of abortions.
In the same article is one of the most clear expressions of the anti-abortion sentiment that I have seen. It sums up a good deal of the mental and cultural force in the anti-abortion movement -
Brenda Velez, 38, said she visits the clinic four times a week to recite the rosary.

"They are just encouraging women to be dirty and loose," she said. "The justices' decision is only going to spread more irresponsible behavior."
Are you getting what I'm getting. Its as if at the base of it all is the fear of a woman's sexuality. Where have we seen that a million times.

In some respects, this argument denigrates human sexuality from another direction. In so doing this, it actually promotes what it wants to curb - the issue being the loss of the sanctity of life.

Abortion is no light matter. People are as confused as ever.

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