There is.

There are tons of people looking to adopt babys who can't due to low supply.

Seems counterintutive since there are tons of kids who go unadopted, but the truth is...

people want babies.  Any Baby put up for adoption now adays is readily snapped up... and babies are in such short supply that we litteraly import them... and many more would be imported if not for strict laws in regards to it.

It's just... once a kid hits 2 or so... he's considered "Damaged goods".   Already has the smell of someone else on it... or something I don't know, i don't want kids so I really don't get the mindset.

It becomes a human when the brain is developed enough to support some kind of conciousness.

So... sometime after birth then.

Are you saying newborn babies do not have a conciousness?

The reality is that there are very few African Americans that are part of the GOP.  Same goes with homosexuals.  Hispanics are partly there, but usually don't support much.  Jews are more of an exception here.  I base what I am saying on a quote by a Republican who was asked about minorities in the GOP, and he spoke of there being some Jews around.

You would be right in regards to a racist who is non-white not being Republican (and likely Democrat), at least in this era (since the shift that has happened after Nixon was president).  Non-whites aren't there much, and those who are operate under the reasons I stated.

And there is evidence for what I speak of:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118937/republican-base-heavily-white-conservative-religious.aspx

PRINCETON, NJ -- More than 6 in 10 Republicans today are white conservatives, while most of the rest are whites with other ideological leanings; only 11% of Republicans are Hispanics, or are blacks or members of other races. By contrast, only 12% of Democrats are white conservatives, while about half are white moderates or liberals and a third are nonwhite.

This poll was from 2009.  Find a more recent one to refute it.

And this one from 2008 points to diversity deficit with the GOP:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10464.html

At the start of the Bush years, the Republican National Committee — in tandem with the White House — vowed to usher in a new era of GOP minority outreach. As George W. Bush winds down his presidency, Republicans are now on the verge of going six — and probably more — years without an African-American governor, senator or House member.

That’s the longest such streak since the 1980s.

The original post fails to end up recruiting anyone of diversity to the GOP, while, at best, merely is meant to drive minorities away from the Democratic Party.

Not anymore then the last few weeks of an allowed abortion.

And less so then animals we routinly slaughter for food etc.

I didn't dispute your analysis of the racial make up of the Republican Party. I took issue with your calling minorities who have chosen to be Republicans "tokens" who are "operating under a delusion".

We should probably note, though, that in 2010 - just two years after your second article was written - the Republicans fielded more black candidates than they had in decades, if not ever. Of course only Tim Scott and Allen West won election, but that's really out of the Republicans' hands (racists or not).

The logic works but all the same conditions have to be met.  In the Republican case, Maher was talking about the 2 parties that control American politics in the present. A specific situation that is concentrated in one specific area of the world; and reducing racism to that of caucasians towards non-caucasians.

You Muslim example doesn't work because you made it too broad.  But if you were to say "not all Muslims are Terrorists, but if you are a terrorist in the Middle East then you are probably a Muslim", then the logic would have some sense.

I do think a newborn has more brain power than say, a cow.

Anyways, I think that as soon as activity starts in the brain of the fetus, it becomes a human being, because it gains a human conciousness.

Here we get into the difference between 'human life' and a 'person'. Ending a fetus is not murder if it is not considered a person.

@Jumping. In the early stages a fetus has no brain activity at all.

@Kasz. The definition of a planet is based on rigid parameters - it has to have its shape defined by gravity and it has to have cleared its orbit. 'I think therefore I am' is not a rigid scientific statement, it's a philisophical one.

@Kasz again. A newborn has a HUGELY more developed brain that a fetus at say ~25 weeks.