For shame, Daily Kos.

Daily Kos has never been a major contributor to the cause of civility in the political arena. But this post comparing pro-lifers to terrorists is moonbattery above and beyond the call of duty.

One does not argue in favor of legalized armed robbery because people who hold up banks are sometimes killed. There were at least three alternatives to back alley abortions before Roe v. Wade: 1)don't have sex (and the number of conceptions which result from rape or incest is well under two percent of the total); 2) if you're going to have sex, contracept; or, 3) have the baby, and either raise it yourself or put it up for adoption by one of the couples who desperately want a baby but can't have one of their own- and drastically outnumber the babies who are aborted every year.

Anything that can be done to improve the alternatives for women considering abortion should be. Bill Clinton to the contrary, nobody is in favor of sending women to jail for having abortions. But there is no question that the human fetus, by every biological definition of the word, is alive. Nor is there any question that it is genetically human- and that both of these things are true as of the moment of conception.

If we accept the principle that there can be living members of our species who are not persons, we have crossed a line which is our only defense against arbitrarily defining the mentally handicapped, the elderly, and perhaps members of specific ethnic and racial groups out of the human race. Abortion among African-Americans, in fact, is so prevalent even at present as to raise questions as to whether in a very few generations there will be any African-Americans left! "Genocide" is not to strong a word for what abortion is doing to the African-American community.

Yet this is not to accuse even the shrillest and most radical pro-abortion fanatic of genocide. Nobody wants that. It's a shame that the Daily Kos isn't able to summon the fundamental decency to concede that nobody wants women seeking to terminate unwanted pregnancies to die, either.