First off, the abortion thing? it's absolutely sick, and absolutely unnessecary. read up on yoru abortion procedures and see what it sounds like to you. I'm not going to get into the specifics, it's gruesome enough i actually worry about being banned for detailing, so yeah. IMO there are enough contraceptives, both before and after the fact that abortion is completely unnessecary. if you haven't made a rational choice three days after sex (the usual time limit to prevent conception, it's an ongoing process for a pregnancy to actually begin. up until 72 hours, the Morning after pill -NOT RU-486!!!! NOT RU-486!!! THERE IS A DIFFERENCE- is still effective to prevent conception. this, combined with condoms, birth control, and any of the more drastic medical means and pulling out, there is no excuse to say "well NOW i don't think i want this developing child to have the right to live." at this point, a woman should be expected and required to tough it out for her kids sake. After you've signed the loan papers the banks aren't gonna just let you change your mind and give you your interest back, are they?

Onto the rest of it (sorry, abortion really really drives me up the wall. its recockulous.) I think the govt. doesn't need to change it's position so much as refine it's means. They need someone to just fine tune things. its the little things that add up, ya know? I work at a foodlion, and i can't tell you how many people still get foodstamps through technicalities, and they come in driving BMW's chromed out, with huge platinum chains and complete Fubu sweatsuits. it's ridiculous, the way our govt. hands out cash to people who don't need it. i'm all for foodstamps, no one should starve, but if you get foodstamps you better be shopping at walmart or the thrift store. same with welfare and anything else, or useless military or diplomatic spending. that stuff needs to stop. fine tune the economics, that finetunes the policy, and that makes everything run smooth enough to start looking at the issues instead of the budget.