Casey...
Kerry is exercising the separation between church & state.
That's BS and you know better. He is a Catholic seeking the Catholic vote and Catholics don't have a sign up sheet where you decided what you do and don't support before joining. Pure crap double speak. All had to do was say he supports a womans right to choose and will work to keep it so. He has no moral courage because then he knows he'll lose some Catholic votes. Who knows, a courageous stand, right or wrong and maybe he'd pick up votes?
The point I'm making about abortion is that it is NOT settled legally any more than slavery was. It is in legal limbo which is a threat to us all. 30 states apparently are prepared to pass legislation legalizing abortion.
To me, until we legalize drugs and prostitution you have no more right to do whatever you want with your body than I do.
The slavery issue was that slaves, Constitutionally, are OBVIOUSLY not property and therefore have equal rights under the law; viola, end of slavery.
You are entitled to your own opinion as to abortion, but it is a life and it sure as hell is human and abortion is supported typically by people whom wouldn't put Tim McVeigh to death and whom support the rights of snail darters and trees.
It is better if we settle it than leave the legal abortion that is Roe v. Wade (right to privacy) as the Dredd Scott of our day.