I feel the need to get something off my chest on what is just about the liveliest third-rail topic in any country's politics.
One of the things that has bothered me for a very long time (amid a very long list) about those who scream from the rooftops that the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") is going to destroy civilisation and America's health care system ("the greatest in the world" unless you use pretty much any metric used to measure the quality of health care systems) is the fact that very, very many of them identify as being anti-abortion (or "pro-life" as they would like to put it).
Watch The Daily Show's Asif Mandvi render a Fox News correspondent speechless while covering "the greatest health care system in the world (if you are outside the US you are going to have to Google the video and try and find it yourself this time!)
Now, there are of course all sorts of arguments to be had about when life begins and if and when abortion should be an appropriate option for a woman to have, but we don't need to go into that here. What we do need to do is to take, at face value, the beliefs of people who call themselves pro-life, that they believe that abortion is murder. Not only murder, but the most wicked and nefarious form of murder: the murder of a totally defenceless child (so defenceless that it couldn't even survive outside its mother's womb). And to make matters worse, the person instigating this heinous act, is none other than the child's own mother.
Viewed from that perspective and holding those views, abortion really is a very wicked thing.
