Milo;373232 wroteAlso laughable is your comment that, "We've agreed that morals should not be imposed upon others", after which you go right on insisting that government should do just that.
Please make up your mind.
If you want government to avoid the imposition of morality on citizens, then a whole host of current government services are going to go away. and yes, Mother's Allowance will be one of them.
But that is not what you are arguing for . . . you are arguing for the imposition of your morality, in some misguided belief that your morality is somehow better than others.
Hubris, thy name is Mark.
As I responded to Trigs, LEGAL abortions do not equal MANDATORY abortions.
If you're against abortion, don't get one. This isn't a moral imposition of the government, this is the government taking responsibility to ensure all persons, regardless (there's that word that means there or not there) of one's personal morals is afforded the resources and opportunities to access medical procedures that are legally available.
YOU are defining moral imposition as the fact that since you and yours think abortions are immoral, then they shouldn't be accessible for anyone, at the LEAST not on your dime. In this case, I refer back to my man-hating lesbian.
If I thought it was morally wrong to eat meat, this is the equivalent of me throwing paint on anyone wearing leather, and protesting any meat-serving place of business. And everyone laughs at those nutjobs. Abortions, as well as eating meat, are legal, and those that have no moral problems with them should have access to them without harassment and red tape boogaloo.
Mark
Edit: Hubris? I can live with that as a descriptor, but you must acknowledge the fact the difference between my saying "Abortions need to be available for those that want it" vs. "Abortions are wrong, and should not be available to anyone". I'm not walking up to some ill-prepared young woman, who has improperly used contraception and is now pregnant, but a very religious gal, and telling her she really should go and get an abortion. See the difference?