Because its a religous argument. You say I am "murdering my kid" because based on your religion, life begins at some point. My religous beliefs, or lack of them, say that life begins the day you take a breath. Thats part one. Part two is this, you don't have one life you are dealing with, you have two. A women has a right to make a decision in her life on whether she wants to spend the next 18 years of her life taking care of a kid, and a lot of times the decision involves taking care of a handicapped or retarded kid, or a child that belongs to a rapist or a one night stand. I am not going to force another human being to make that decision in just the way I want her to make it. I don't have the right, and nobody else does either.

I'm 50 years old. I grew up in the world where abortion was illegal. To force women to back to that world, of back alley abortions, of being forced to raise kids they didn't want, that whole world was inhumane and wrong. You may not like abortion. Good, don't have one. As far as other people go, thats a decision that is just not yours or your church or your political party to make for someone. In the term "mind your own business" thats the kind of business people are talking about.

The bomb joke the guy made was pretty out of line, but the pro-life movement brought that on themselves in a lot of ways by resorting to bombings and violence. Personally, I thnk the abortion debate is over in this country. People are tired of it, and the pro-lifers lost. I don't think it is going to be a big component of this election, and it hasn't even been mentioned much by either candidate or the press, and the demonstrations seem to have evaporated. Only the true believer pro-lifers push it now, otherwise people in general have pretty much made up there mind that it is here to stay, and most people are ok with it.