So 2 weeks ago Pelosi was on Meet the Press and Biden was on last week. I thought Pelosi sucked and Biden did ok. However, on the abortion thing they both made some mistakes. Pelosi said the Catholic Church's position was always been quenstioned and people give differing opinions on the church. I think she cited Augustine and Biden cited Aquinas. Woops! There was a big backlash on that of course. The Church's position is clear, but some (especially half-ass) Catholics that believe differently.
Biden believes that life begins at birth but he doesn't want to impose his views on others. I don't understand this. We impose our moral beliefs on others all the time in government; it seems a baby's life is important enough for us to do it here too.
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I love McCain's answer on abortion. "Human life begins at conception." I think that's what he said to Warren... I didn't hear the interview, but that's what I heard. I can't really understand the view that life begins at birth... makes no sense to me that a person could hold to that position, though I believe that is the Jewish position actually. May need some clarification on that. I think it's fully for a politician to say that "he doesn't want to impose his view on others" because his entire life and purpose for existence, as a politician, is to impose his views on others! Isn't that practically the definition of a politician. Imagine using that as a campaign slogan... "And if elected I will go to Washington and fight for you... work for you... and try as hard as I can not to impose my views on others!"
The whole question of when life begins baffles me. Does it really matter, or is it just something to argue about & score political points? No matter when life begins, there is a good chance that in 9 months, if you don't mess with it, its gonna be a kid. If an engineer was in the middle of building a bridge & someone destroyed it, you wouldn't say, "well, it wasn't a bridge yet" because you knew that it was going to be a bridge at some point. I thought the most interesting answer to that question was how Tony Campolo thought that Obama should have answered the question.
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