All true but I feel better for it. Sometimes the atmosphere can be so stifling, intellectually I mean, that it's good just to let rip. My language was as colourful as my thinking was sloppy, but buried in my mini-rant were some home truths. The US Supreme Court is now well in the sphere of influence of the Bush Administration. The legislature does have some real whackos in it. I mean people in the US were bagging that Scots blowhard from London, Galloway, but fair dinkum some of the people you allow into Congress are neanderthals compared to even Galloway.

Now to the point. This a medical issue but religion is invoked. For me that indicates the paucity of thinking about the issue. In a nominally secular society like the US, religion should have no place in public policy. But there it is.

The policy should be decided without reference to any religion. The policy should be strongly advised by the medical profession - preferably medical advisers that are disciplined enough to keep their religious views out of their medical judgements. The policy should be decided on grounds that focus on the woman and her right to choose whether or not she should give birth to the child. Her decision should be informed by medical advice - secular medical advice. Above all, the wellbeing of the mother is of prime importance.

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"There were no D-Day Heroes in 1973" - Cold Chisel Khe Sanh