You, Smokezero, are a collection of cellular tissue and genetic material. But that does not disqualify you as a unique member of the human species.

If there is a conflcit between your right to continue to live and the right of someone else to continue to live, then, obviously there would be a dire need for balancing competing rights. So your tragic examples (the hard cases) that you have just emphasized do not demonstrate that the human being at her most vulnerable stage of development is analogous with the cancerous tissue that is part of an individual and not a distinct human being.

It doesn’t matter that some people are ill-informed and choose to see the human being as something other than a human being. Their misperception does not decide the objective facts of human embryology.

Self-governance is based on respecting the human dignity of our fellow human beings — the most vulnerable amongst demand by their very existence far more protection than what you just described.

Since when is one’s freedom defined by discarding someone else just because that someone else is unwanted? You know that is what PP is really about and not really about the hard cases and the dire circumstances that you described. Hence my previous comment about proportionality.

Planned Parenthood does not encourage people to get out and have abortions because they are fun, exciting, worth while, will make you cool, could save your soul, etc. They offer a service to women who need a medical procedure. Some see the fetus as a simple collection of genetic tissue, much like a cancerous tumor. Others see the fetus as a baby. But, it isn’t the “government’s job” to mandate that type of “moral code.” That is left up to self governance. The same self governance that is touted as the center for “free market economics” must be available for “free society.”

Smokezero, that only makes sense if you believe the woman’s rights to be the only rights at stake, as Planned Parenthood does. Somehow, children don’t enter into Planned Parenthood’s picture of who gets to have rights.

The outrage towards this lobby group does not match the other lobby groups, corporate interests, and other vile people who are siphoning money, so its not just about “evil lobby groups.” This is about “Lobby group I disagree with.”

James Dobson, Planned Parenthood, and a plethora of other lobby groups have made their beds as overglorified ideas, and if you are going to get mad at PP, why not focus some of this anger towards Focus on the Family too? They also get government kickbacks.

No problem. Let me know once you’ve made your donation, and then I’ll tell you what I’ve heard.