@ Mrstickball: So then why don't we prosecute women for drinking alcohol and doing drugs while they are pregnant when there is tons of documented evidence that it causes severe harm to the babies? Why don't we prosecute women who genetic diseases that will transfer to their children and make the children's life miserable? Why don't we prosecute a women for not getting prenatal care if it results in a miscarriage?
Why shouldn't we prosecute parents for feeding their children unhealthy foods? Why shouldn't we prosecute parents for not giving their kids vitamins? Why shouldn't we prosecute parents for spanking their kids? That causes pain.
You can argue that based on our scientific knowledge we should abort children if we know they will have Down's syndrome or some other incurable condition. Using science on the abortion issue is a slippery slope, as it can lead to absurd results sometimes. It is as much a constitutional issue as a scientific one.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
