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When Conley and his kind can offer the option of transferring the fetus to their own bellies, and of taking all the risks of birth and raising and deadbeat moms, then and only then they should be permitted to express an opinion on abortion.
(It might happen. I have a former law partner whose personality strongly suggests that anal intercourse in not an infallible contraceptive.)
Until that time, let's recognize the sly homilies of the fetus-worshippers for what they are: a subset of the fundamentalists' worship of human beings (most specifically themselves) as the center of the universe and the beginning and ending of time.
By the way, in all the jurisdictions I know, and I don't pretend to know all of them, Mom has no power to waive the child's right to be supported by the biological parent, and the statute of limitations doesn't begin to run on the child's right to collect until the child reaches majority.
