Agreed...back to the dark ages. I also have mixed feelings on this issue, but I have no mixed feelings on an outright ban...that's just stupid.
Here you've got a country in which the "sanctity of life" is so important that many people would make emergency contraceptives illegal, but would also advocate the death penalty...as in states like S. Dakota. It's people like these who should have been aborted in the first place for lack of intelligence. I guess I should readily admit that there are people like that in Canada too.
I personally don't believe in the sanctity of life. I believe that my own life is important, as are those of the people I care about. I respect that other people's lives are important to them, but I don't grieve for the life of a tsunami victim I didn't know...death happens. I have empathy...I try not to cause other people pain. I hate seeing others suffering. I sometimes feel bad when I crush an ant. I don't hunt, because I see no reason to cause animals any pain. Other people think differently, and that's up to them as long as they're not making me pull the trigger or clean up the carcass.
I wear leather and I eat steak, but I don't personally kill the cows. Maybe I'm a hypocrite, or maybe I'm a real, live human with no "absolute" rights and wrongs.
All of that said, I support a woman's right to do what she wants with her body, but I don't have to respect it in cases I don't agree with (e.g. getting 4 abortions after repeated careless sex). Personally, I'd have a hell of a time deciding what to do if I found out my kid was going to have Down syndrome or something.... how can there be a "right" answer in a case like that? It's a lose-lose situation*, and it's up to the individual.
*Don't mean to offend any parents of Down syndrome kids...I just know that I would personally be very troubled if a doctor told me my kid was going to be born that way. It would be a hard life as a parent, and it would be a hard decision to abort and possibly live with the guilt.
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