and that's a shame - even though the Traisters would have you believe that an abortion is the same as removing a wart, many people feel it's murder - and that those who have abortions must be of questionable character (because a killer may not be of the highest character). Now we smarter-then-them progressives know that a fetus is nothing more than a mass of tissues (which is why I never understand why women get upset at a miscarriage - natures abortion)- but sometimes we have to view the unwashed as people too - you know, with feelings and even, maybe - at least sometimes, the ability to reason. Yes abortion is legal - so is pornography - so is gambling, so is drunkeness, so is prostitution (in some places) - so is canned hunting (http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/hunting/canned_hunts/) -- the legality of a behavior hardly justifies it or elevates it, and as long as the left refuses to see the humanity of the fetus - or the humanity of those who believe that babies in the womb are still babies, then the left will look like heartless baby killers and the right will look like caring baby lovers - which is funny, because the left actually does care about children far more than the right... But the cons are still better at marketing!

"telling city commissioners that he was alright with the issue being raised"

Please don't tell me that "alright" is now accepted usage in American journalism. Is it?

What is the world coming to? Forget all the unborn babies and masses of tissue... Someone please think of the children and show them how to spell, or the terrorists have already won.

You know what, sometimes abortion isn't a tragedy. Sometimes it is the right thing to do. Sometimes, it is the best choice for all involved. And yes, sometimes it is a tragedy (a family can't afford another child, the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest) but sometimes it is the right thing a the right time. Soemtimes, it is even the moral choice. Can we stop judging people based on individual choices they made at particular times for very personal reasons? Can we finaly grow up?

Unauthorized access to medical information is against the law. Forget about the officer, did it occur to anyone that access to and publication of the *woman's* medical history is a violation of state and federal law, not to mention her privacy and dignity?

"the right will look like caring baby lovers"

You mean like the anti-choice Catholic priests who just LOVE children, espcially on their knees? Or maybe Randall Terry, the anti-choice criminal who dumped his wife for another woman and disowned his own son for being gay? Or maybe Bob and Mary Schindler, who used the tragic condition of their daughter, Terri Schiavo, as a way to get on Fox News and make a little scratch on the pro-LIE rubber chicken circuit?

You right-wingers look like what you really are - self-righteous, intrusive blowhards who are miserable and angry at the fact that everywhere in America, people think for themselves, reject your idiotic dogma, and have the nerve to be happy.

If we start outing all the powerful men whose girlfriends have had abortions, conservatives better brace themselves for some very public embarrassment.

I'm a native Fargoan, and let's just say that growing up in the 80s and 90s amidst the "Lambs of Christ" crisis in that town was quite an experience. My older brother, long since my favorite feminist, was an escort at the local Fargo Women's Health clinic, helping women seeking any sort of gynecological services there enter and exit safely, as well as protecting the doctors and their children at their homes and schools (yes, teenaged children of doctors were being followed and harassed at their schools). I even vaguely recall my brother being attacked by a priest one summer and various license plate numbers being taken down carefully by protesters with notebooks. Fargo has a long history of an uncomfortable relationship with abortion, and this is just one more moment for me to shake my head a little at the obvious chafing over the issue up in my hometown. Hopefully, in the future, the new interim police chief will have far better things with which to occupy his time than answering questions that are dozens of years late and inappropriate, as well!