Reply #33: I'd call it a "keen sense of the obvious."

[TahitiNut]

That it's a heinous act is indisputable, imho. The question is what kind of heinous act. I see a denial of a person's civil rights as heinous in many instances ... and this is one of those instances. I regard a Birth Certificate (or the equivalent, in a de facto sense) as establishing civil 'personhood' - a condition necessary for the establishment of one's civil rights. (All else is religion.)

I'm personally as much 'pro-life' as I am 'pro-choice' - since 'life' can be meaningless without privacy and 'choice'. I think this is what most miss. 'Life' in a civil sense is not just about biological function. The most essential element of civil 'life' is that minimal degree of personal sovereignty called 'privacy' or 'choice'. Thus, in denying (reproductive) choice and privacy to a living person, we deny much of life itself. Even felons in prison should keep their personal privacy rights - they should not be tortured, used for medical experimentation, forced to have an abortion, or a plenitude of other violations of their human/civil rights. (Yes, I'm opposed to the death penalty. Of course. It's insane not to be.)