It bothers me when pro-life people try to make the argument that pro-choice people are advocating abortion or advocating murder. I think abortion is a terrible thing, and I would never suggest that somebody get one. I think people should use birth control effectively to avoid this problem in the first place (which statistically is what has been happening, which I think everyone can be happy about). But that doesn't mean that I feel like I have the right to make that decision for everyone else. I like living in a society that can make this distinction.
If someone wants to have an abortion, that is completely up to them. I don't condone their decision, but I am completely respectful of their right to make that decision for themselves.
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
