My recommendation to vote for Gore is not a protest vote, but a desparate suggestion in the judgment that Gore represents the best opportunity for gridlocking the government. The only course I see is to bog the government down with its own petty in-fighting while we proceed to educate more people about the value of principles, and voice our support for more principled defenders of capitalism. Abortion I believe the mother must decide to abort the fetus well before the point of normal birth and that the rights of the fetus do actually begin before the baby is born. The standard for when the fetus' rights may properly begin is when the fetus could remain alive if removed from the womb. Australia The issue of abortion does center on the question of where rights begin, which is when a human being does exist, not when it might .
Individual rights begin at birth, with the creation of a new, separate human being.
Rights are a concept applicable only to individual, actual human beings, not a merely potential one. The actual entity has attributes that the merely potential does not. The timing of the woman's decision has no impact on when the fetus becomes a rights-bearing entity, i.e., when it is born. Both positions confuse the potential with the actual. Abortion is a political right, and, like many rights-protected actions protected, are not necessarily moral.