Biff just sat here and tried to talk to me about how the Roe v. Wade case was botched. He is apparently "pretty much okay with abortion," but just wants it back on a state by state level. It doesn't seem fair to mandate these things federally, he says. Why make everyone conform to the same rules?
Okay, Biff, tell that to a girl in southern Texas who then has to drive upwards of 17 hours to get to the nearest clinic because of a state law. Or the Hawaiian woman who has to fly to one.
He's a mental midget if he can't see the huge flaws in that particular argument.
I can't even begin to tell you how hard it was for me to just say, "I really can't talk to you about this issue."
I want to kill him, I really do. I mean, if you are going to come out against Roe v. Wade, fine, be a bible-thumping fuckhead and just be anti-choice. Have principles. They're not principles I espouse, but at least they're principles. But don't be for abortion but against everyone having a right to them.
I am just sitting here seething. I can't argue with this guy - there's no point. But now I am just sitting here, pissed, and I can't see straight. I honestly don't know what the hell to do.
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"He’s a mental midget if he can’t see the huge flaws in that particular argument."
Don't want to side with Biff BUT...
If he is pro-abortion, is it necessary that he should seek to impose his views upon everyone else?
My reading of your description of what he said (so, OK, it's third-hand already!) is that he believes that people in a definable socio-geographic area ahould have the right to decide for themselves on such matters and not have them imposed from on high by some centralised dictator. Maybe the girl in Texas has to travel 1ooo miles to get to an area where the people, by consensus, can help her. Beacause the people in Texas don't want to. Maybe you and I disagree with the folk in Texas but why should we dictate what happens in Texas?? Maybe Biffo the Bear (ask Rod about than one) has a wee smigeon of a point here.
Could it be that a wee bit of Biff-blindness is creeping in? The swine!!
Eric
Posted by: Father in Law | January 27, 2004 5:18 PM
Forgive all the wee spelling mistooks in the posting above. It's lack of keyboard skill, not lack of attention to my old English teacher. Honest!
Posted by: Father in Law | January 27, 2004 5:21 PM