Bill Bennett is an idiot with a mouth big enough to hold both feet

[Tonchi]

Why is abortion so much more offensive to these politicos than killing those babies after they reach 18 and can be sent to Iraq, or wherever else we are "liberating" at the moment?

I'm waiting for some (insert ethnic designation here) to announce the only reasoning behind the rabid no-abortions-for-any reason policies of this administration is their fear of not being able to maintain enough cannon fodder in the pipeline. I mean, it follows the same twisted logic as Mr. Bennet's formula for crime prevention, so why hasn't some rabble-rouser reached this conclusion yet? Item: The last dictator of Romania actually FORCED his people to have children by forbidding any form of contraception, including abortion, because the decline in population had the government alarmed. It worked, but it led to 50% of these children born to unwilling women to be "stillborn", abandoned to die, or dumped at the dismal and understaffed state orphanages. Later they decided to forbid adoptions outside Romania also, because it was bad publicity for the regime that so many people from Western nations were coming there and grabbing up these children which nobody in Romania wanted. So much for the politics of regulating births.