And this is precisely what I hate about the so-called pro-life advocates. The problem is that their rhetoric is more than often couched as a moralistic crusade against "baby-murderers". While those of us on the pro-choice side might see a certain logic in the pro-life argument and might be willing to look for areas of commonality and agreement (see Obama's speech of a couple of weeks ago at Notre Dame) the religious right tends to see any talk with other thinking people as compromising with evil.
How can you have a rational debate and discussion with people that think you are the devil incarnate? Oh yeah, you can't. Instead, debate turns into the yelling matches that bring in the big bucks for the "news" stations.
More seriously, the rhetoric and reflexive hatred makes murder not just possible, but likely. You can't go around calling people baby-murderers and then act surprised when somebody starts talking (and acting on) "justifiable homicide". Some of the anti-abortion people are trying to run away, as fast as they can, from this member of their ranks that perpetrated this crime (in a church, no less), but in reality they created the monster. In fact, many in the movement are actually encouraging more such murders. So much for pro-life.
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