I mean, outside of the Red Light District in Amsterdam.

He might have more respect for secularism if he could see the ruins of the cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys that were brutally destroyed during various phases of Christian-on-Christian violence before the secular state came into being.

Secularism came about mainly as a way to protect people of faith FROM OTHER PEOPLE OF (ALMOST) THE SAME FAITH.

Christians who complain about secularism should think about the alternatives.

But perhaps those who can think already have, and it's no use trying to get through to the rest.

but no woman has an abortion on a whim

Personally, I'm far more troubled by the women who get pregnant on a whim-- understanding, however, that it is perfectly within their rights to do that as well, whether I happen to like it or not-- whether it's to try to secure an unstable relationship or because they're bored or just passive. Abortion is an active choice, albeit a less than pleasant one in the way that surgical procedures tend to be; however, carelessness with birth control, denial and/or passivity while pregnant, and indifferent parenting are far weaker and more generally ill-informed choices than recognizing the harsh realities of an badly-timed or otherwise undesirable pregnancy.

It is one thing for O'Reilly to be given free rein by Fox News, but the Herald should be ashamed of itself for publishing this unsubstantiated tripe.

Oh, they should be ashamed alright, but one should be surprised by the Boston Herald acting like Fox News -- it's all Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

The author of this Broadsheet article writes of O'Reilly:

His suggestion that a woman would have, or even want, a post-viability abortion because she is feeling a "bit blue" is both condescending and absurd, as if a pregnant woman just wakes up one day and says, "you know, I don't feel like having this baby after all."

Huh?????

I've never heard any Bill O'Reilly quote that leads me to conclude his IQ is above room temperature.

But O'Reilly aside, many women who are pregnant are All. The. Time. agonizing over whether they want to have the baby. And sometimes they do, indeed, wake up and decide the answer is No.

And well they should, if that's how they feel, because the world has far too many unwanted children.

There is no reason to call this decision a "whim" -- even if Bill O'Reilly does so.

AG Phill Kline of Kansas is an election cheat:

http://www.citizensforethics.org/activities/campaign.php?view=157

He lost anyway.

Dr Tiller was shot in both arms by a presumably antiabortion activist in 1993.

xylu writes: But O'Reilly aside, many women who are pregnant are All. The. Time. agonizing over whether they want to have the baby. And sometimes they do, indeed, wake up and decide the answer is No.

I believe that the "pregnant woman" both O'Reilly & the author are referring to is in her 3rd trimester of pregnancy.(the discussion being around post-viability abortion) By then most women have made up their minds. The point is, O'Reilly makes it sound as if women dilly dally right till the last minute and the fact is, most women try to make the decision to abort or not as quickly as possible, circumstances permitting.

We take this stuff seriously, Mr. O'Reilly. It's not like getting a tooth pulled.

FOX (aka the News Corp.) modus operandi as follows:

Toss a bomb into a crowd. Watch the shrapnel fly and the people scream in horror and run away. Then, in the midst of the blood and triage efforts, have some cynical hack say something really dumb like, "People ought to know better than to gather in crowds like this. Someone might throw a bomb in the crowd and cause all this hysteria." This serves to distract from the real question that sane people are asking like, "Who the hell threw the bomb?"

It's in the category of saying a woman was raped because she was wearing a short skirt and heels. And no one should think for one minute that FOX "news" gives a good goddamn about "morals" or "values". Like its founder, it is amoral and opportunistic. Nothing matters but money and power. O'Rielly doesn't give a tinker's damn about women. The truth is, he's been accused of sexual harrassment of the creepiest kind and he's never been held accountable. He goes on these rants for only one reason: Rupert Murdoch pays him lots of money to do so. One poster noticed the pattern and connected the dots. Bravo. The sooner more of us do the same, the sooner FOX "news" stops offering up half-digested sludge and calling it "fair and balanced."

O'Reilly's discussion focused specifically on George Tiller.

Bill O'Reilly pointed out that George Tiller is known as "Tiller the baby killer" in Kansas, and that Tiller checks the box marked "Depression" as the reason for the abortions he performs.

O'Reilly did not suggest women go there saying they have depression and want an abortion, he said women go there for late-term abortions and Tiller, in subverting the rules and sticking with "endangering the health of the mother, checks the box indicating "depression" as the reason for the abortion.

As O'Reilly stated, none of the women's names were on the records, all had been redacted in accordance with the state's laws.

I doubt "millions of sincere religious people throughout this country, because of their faith, support abortion. It is because of their faith, millions of people oppose abortion. It was the radical left members of clergy that participated in the Clergy Consultation Service which was abolished after Roe v Wade.

There is no alluding about secularists who "worship at the altar of abortion". Abortion is a matter of convenience for the vast majority of women seeking them. Undisputed. The immoral continuing to be immoral and committing murder at the end of it all, then on to an iced coffee at Starbuck's as though it were an ordinary day. Never giving another thought to the life they've just ended out of selfishness.

It seems your tripe is unsubstatiated as you didn't even pay attention to the facts O'Reilly discussed and twisted his essay to fit your biased views to feed your liberal propaganda machine with vindictive personal attacks against O'Reilly strewn throughout. And that's the truth.