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Originally posted by iccky
I agree that this is a pretty good argument for this kind of law. But I don't think the slippery slope argument can be dispensed with that easily.
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The slippery slope argument is simply not valid. Perhaps in the future there will be more laws passed that outlaw abortion, but that is its own issue. If we can have harsher penalties for hate crimes, as asinine as that is, why can't we have harsher penalties for damage/death to a fetus? Is abortion so important that we must ignore justice just because maybe in some future the people of America decide to limit abortions? Perhaps the reason so many pro-abortion people fear this 'slippery slope' is they have come to realize that being pro-abortion is not a majority issue and they are afraid of it ever coming to a vote? They then fight any legislation no matter how just hoping to keep the issue of abortion out of the legislative branches?
GWB has stated many times that he only supports abortion in cases of rape, incest, and where the health of the mother is in danger, and the deepest darkest fear of the pro-abortion people is that someday such a position would come to a popular vote because its pretty clear it would pass. But you have to ask yourself is the fear of such a vote on abortion as a form of birth control, WORTH opposing fair and just laws?
What kind of person does that make you?