The Abortion Issue

Today's the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. While I'm for legalized abortion, I am not going to call myself "pro-choice," and I hate when anti-abortion advocates call themselves "pro-life."

Abortion rights activists make me laugh when they say they are defending a woman's "right to choose." Choose what? What can she choose from? Come clean! It's that namby-pamby language that makes the "pro-choice" crowd so ridiculous.

And as for abortion rights opponents . . . they should stop calling themselves "pro-life." I don't know anyone who's against life. But "pro-lifers" are against plenty. They're against women controlling their own bodies and their own destinies. They're against sensible family planning. They're against making a sometimes necessary medical procedure safe and legal. They're against abortion . . . so maybe they shouldn't have one.

Actually, 77 percent of all anti-abortion activists are men. The other 23 percent are women that, to paraphrase George Carlin, no man would want to sleep with in the first place.

Oh yeah, the United States is the only industrialized country that even bothers with the abortion debate, while other Western countries have long since settled the issue. Why are wasting our time with this nonsense, anyway! Keep abortion legal, and if you hate abortion, don't bother with it! End of discussion. Now can we please get back to talking about public education?