Reply #21: No, I contradicted his point.

[Dhalgren]

The issue of reproductive rights is not about abortion. People who are against an individual's right to reproductive independence want to make this about abortion - and to a large degree have succeeded, but it doesn't make them right.

The numbers batted around by various groups, for various reasons, in this debate have caused me to be very suspicious of any of these numbers.

"Most people are in favor of more restrictions on abortion'. So what? At the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, "most people" were not for full equality for Blacks, either. But it didn't make the movement "wrong".

There are always going to be people who try to stick their noses into other people's private lives, but we do not have to legislate their obnoxious peculiarity...