A Curious Story

Fred Thompson, whom I've never seen on TV, may soon officially join the race for his party's nomination for President of the United States. He appeals to Conservatives of the conservative party. And as such he has to be anti-abortion.

There is a story currently frothing on a soon to crash wave about Thompson having been hired by a family planning group to lobby the first Pres. Bush to overturn that Bush's rule that clinics that preached family planning (meaning abortion) could not receive Federal Money. Two people in the story I read recall crystal clear incidents involving his efforts in that lobbying. But a spokesman for Thompson, along with John Sununu, the man Thompson allegedly spent time lobbying, both deny that the lobbying took place.

Thompson hasn't spoken directly to the press, but wsa quoted by a spokesman as stating he had no recollection of he events portrayed. John Sununu spoke directly on the issue and said that Thompson did not do the lobbying described by members of the family planning group. The family planning group said that it had made payments to Thompson's law firm. But that law firm has yet to comment on whether or not they received this money. All this was back in 1991.

Supporters of Thompson say that he has public stated that seeing the sonogram of his daughter, who is now three, was a watershed event in his life and whatever his feelings were prior to that moment, with the viewing, they coalesced into his current fervid Pro-Life position, and that's all that should count.

As a former candidate for President, my opinion on this matter is as worthless as anyone elses. But just so there is no mistaking my position, I am pro-abortion. Not for any namby-pamby women's rights issues, but because there are just too freaking many humans on the I-405 Freeway in the mornings and afternoons.

Every few years we hear about one or another of the Channel Islands being overrun with goats or deer and the cry goes up that the herds need to be thinned. Well, the same goes for many areas of the Earth, in terms of the human herds overrunning those areas. It's not like there's any danger of the species becoming extinct! If anything, the danger is that we'll extinct ourselves more quickly at the current pace of breeding than if we began paying women to have abortions.

Hey, if you don't want to have an abortion, or didn't want your woman to abort the seed of your loins, I'm fine with that. But if it's not your seed, I don't think you or anyone should be allowed to offer an opinion to a woman looking to kill, murder, butcher, etc., her fetus. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

You know, if abortions were freely available, perhaps there would never be those icky partial-birth abortions.