Daily Kos writes to me, "Join the campaign today, to show that you’re part of a majority of Americans who support reproductive freedom". The petition assumes a false dichotomy between legal abortion and "anti-choice".
At the referenced poll, http://kos.salsalabs.com/... , you can see the tagline, "The majority of Americans support legal abortion, but states and Congress are overrun with anti-choice politicians." The use of "but" in this tagline suggests that somehow being anti-choice implies opposition to legal abortion and vice versa. However, that is not the case. I oppose recognizing an untrammeled right to reproduce, but that does not make me opposed to legal abortion. I am very much in favor of legal abortion. But honoring a total reproductive freedom would be inconsistent with the dreams of socialism. If every faction is accorded freedom to produce so many children as it wants and to instill its principles in each of those children, the potential (certainty in my opinion) exists for such a faction to take over the future, to the exclusion of everyone else. Then it won't be possible to provide each individual the material means of life, as these are limited, but reproduction would be otherwise unlimited.
William Waugh