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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [qb] [QUOTE]The elected officials did not put it to a popular vote, rather they decided that what was in their own people's best intrests was the same as what private intrests (campaign contributors) wanted.[/QUOTE]The idea of representative democracy is that the will of the people should be carried out by their chosen representatives. If their representatives don't act according to the will of the people, they aren't reelected. As for campaign contributors, no amount of money can reelect a politician who has sufficiently angered his or her constituants. [QUOTE]There's going to be a lot of women sneaking across the border to other states to have a medical procedure every other woman is [b][i]entitled[/i][/b] to.[/QUOTE]How is someone entitled to an abortion? I would agree that you could say that someone is entitled to life-saving medicine or care, but an abortion? Rarely is an abortion needed to preserve a mother's life, and that procedure was not banned in South Dakota. Abortions are generally performed to avoid inconveniences or some sort of vaguely defined mental or emotional harm. Rather than killing the child, there are always various forms of birth control prior to conception and adoption after. [/qb][/QUOTE]No amount of votes can keep a politician in office past their term either- that's where those campaign contibutions, connections and money come in- to [i]further[/i] a political career. As to "entitlement", it's [i]her[/i] body and (as defined by both science and national law) the thing growing in her is not "a person" for quite some time after conception. This is where the moral issue comes into play, and is aside from my point, but if you wnat to go there, why not hammer the issue home and give all unwanted children automatic custody (and financial liability) to the [i]father[/i] then? After all, it's the menfolk making the decisions as to weither the woman should have the child. Or should the [i]state[/i] care for them all? South Dakota is not exactly booming ecomomicaly as it is. It's always easy to sit in judgement when it's someone [i]else's[/i] problem. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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