The "I'm tired of hearing about it..." Phenomenon

There used to be some unmentionable taboos in society. You know... like saying the word "pregnant" on television. Those same sensibilities prevented Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore from sitting, much less lying on the same bed, and thus, husband and wife were forced to sleep in separate twin beds.

In contrast, today's television has made it abundantly clear to every man, woman, and child exactly which tampon is preferable, and how sexually active adults can continue to be sexually active, even when one partner suffers from the sexually transmitted disease, herpes. Because he still does, and she still doesn't, and they want to keep it that way. Any questions?

Yet I get a lot of grief from conservatives, not to mention liberals, about all the time I spend harping on the abortion subject. Conservatives seem to believe that abortion is not nearly as important as putting up that wall on the Rio Grand. Liberals... well, they think it is just petty of me to try and manage a woman's private reproductive decisions.

News flash... there are elections occurring all the time. There is an especially important one coming up in 2008, which may well shape the abortion issue for years to come. Slicing up babies as a means to family planning is reprehensible, and therefore, I will be giving the subject the attention it must have. Otherwise, people will instinctively say, "I am tired of hearing about abortion, and I don't want to argue about it anymore."  And abortion will continue as it always has, and that is just plain... reprehensible.

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