Thank you. Excellent post. I have one more addition.

Hoosier: Do you know many rapists who would stop to put on a condom?

So many married men complain that their wives aren't wanting to have sex often enough. Why do they think this is? Perhaps they really don't want to get pregnant.

Yes - zero, but we weren't discussing rape.

Surely every "unintended" doesn't get aborted.

And if we encouraged the "unintended" to get an abortion, the per-year total would fall from 1.3 million to 74,393 +/-

I have never understood how or why abortion became the most prominent plank in the libs and dems platform.

Because as opposed to having states moderate that crap themselves, it became a federal issue. Now instead of talking about how the heck to make filling out tax forms easier, we have to deal with abortions all the time.

-Rudey

Oh, probably for the same reason it's always an issue at the Republican Convention and that platform as well.

People are passionate about it from both sides.

The religious ramifications are a pretty big catalyst, too.