Reply #32: As always, I object to the methodology [View All]

Perhaps you can't really measure this one with a poll question and break it out into chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

I don't like the idea of abortion, least of all for convenience. Now, my mother will tell you that no woman would have an abortion for convenience, that it's painful and sickening. She's never really said how she knows that, but we suspect that her miscarriage in younger days may not have been spontaneous. Be that as it may, and there is no point in pursuing this in discussion with her, what she must mean is that no woman would ever have a SECOND abortion on a whim.

But I do support legal abortion, especially early on. Where I get hinky is after the point of viability. My spiritual philosophy (soul entering the body at birth) is not as certain at that point, because infants born after that point survive and are people. If I were firm in my belief in the immortality of the human soul, then I would be confident that an abortion at any time would not matter or be a moral issue- but I'm human and lack that confidence. So I support abortion up to two weeks prior to the earliest medically established point of viability.

In a poll, where my choices are limited to those offered, I might come off differently from my actual position. In a poll, which has no consequence, I might offer my PERSONAL opinion rather than my political position.

Am I the only one whose personal opinion, or values, are not always in harmony with my political position? For example- I would love to drive the Mormons back to Utah and turn the Orlando temple into an opera house; but, I wouldn't support a law which ordered that.