Dogmaphobe
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Why?
I could make the smart ass comment all you are doing is killing off 300,000 potential democrats a year, but I won't.
Why do you care? A right leaning supreme court said it was legal, so why care?
I don't.
Why the need to frame the issue according to liberal and conservative? Why not think about what occurs, ask some basic questions by way of implications and think it through without restricting yourself to some artificial paradigms?
It shouldn't be a matter of "I am a liberal or a conservative, so I think this". It should be, "I have arrived at this conclusion based upon my own value system".
If I were to ask any question as it relates to ideology, though, I would offer that if protecting the weak and powerless from the tyranny of a majority has long been a liberal principle, why can't liberals approached the issue as a matter of protecting the developing human until such a time he or she can make an informed decision?
I would imagine most of us would answer "yes" to the question "Do you wish to go on living now", so extending our attitudes towards our own life might answer the question in regards to another's.