Bush's first veto

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

We agree except for abortion. Here is a book you might find interesting:
"Parecon:Life After Capitalism" by Michael Albert. It has some interesting concepts, you can read about it here:
http://www.myspace,com/parecon

Somer, I have a pen pal of 25 years now (we started writing when we were ten, believe it or not) who is also ardently anti-abortion, but she's also very pro-birth control, and so I respect her position and we have had a very harmonious friendship for a quarter century now. S'okay to have a different opinion; makes the world go 'round. And I think it's through fairly and openly debating the different views of issues that we all (hopefully) arrive at the best solutions.

I'd recommend to everyone, if you can find it (it's out of print, but maybe google the title and used books or something), "When Abortion Was a Crime," which looks at the roughly 100-year period when abortion was more or less illegal in the US (1867-1970). Very interesting read for both sides of the debate because at least it gives you the historical context of what you're talking about. And I'll take a look for the book you suggested, Somer, my fellow Keystonian. You can take the girl out of Pennsylvania, but you can't take Pennsylvania out of the girl...