Reply #86: Good. I'm glad the notion of your body belonging to you isn't alien.

[Warren DeMontague]

There are plenty of people who don't think reproductive freedom is "important". Maybe you should try to expand your horizons a bit, and try to see how everyone's body should belong to him or her self, period, and not just in circumstances that you approve of or personally consider "important".

I do expect to get things done. Frankly, I think the American Public is far more libertarian on social issues than the conventional wisdom nabobs give them credit for. This is why Terri Schiavo bit the GOP on the ass. I think one way to "get things done" is to unapologetically embrace a personal freedom agenda.

As for your last sentence- do you think alcohol prohibition worked very well? Was the reason it didn't work because people kept drinking, or was it because it was a fundamentally idiotic idea? Or a little of both? Do you expect that every person in this country would give up alcohol if they were only lectured about it enough? Do you think that's a realistic goal? (Believe me, I've seen the damage alcohol can do.) Do you honestly think it's worth spending billions to make every person who has a glass of wine or a beer a criminal?

And more importantly, why are stupid law enforcement boondoggles the responsibility of the people who, while otherwise minding their own damn business, happen to break the idiotic, anti-freedom laws? Here's a question, and I'd really like an answer to it: In Texas, until the Lawrence SCOTUS decision, there was a law on the books in Texas that made consensual gay sex between adults against the law. Was the "answer" to that law, and whatever misguided funds Texas spent enforcing it and otherwise keeping gay adults under at least some minor shadow of criminality, for the Gays in Texas to stop being gay or stop having sex?

Or was the answer to call that bullshit law what it was, an affront to personal choice and freedom, and work to get it off the books for good?