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Well, I guess those lawbreakers involved with the Underground Railroad back in the day should have just let the black slaves get sent back to their masters instead of getting all huffy about their belief that slavery is fundamentally depraved. It's not as though baby killing is all that much less depraved, you know.
(no, I have too much scientific understanding of the medical field to buy that crap about babies that can't yet scream loudly in pain being less than humans deserving of the right to life and self-determination. if you want legal infanticide, just strike up the band, tell the parents it's the will of Baal, and toss the little rug-rats in an open fire - it worked for Carthage until the Romans and the Greeks out-bred and out-fought the baby-burning monsters! and yes, the Romans and Greeks DID think that the Carthaginians were monsters because of it)
It is obvious you know this information because you are living in the dark ages.
""Ba'al" can refer to any god and even to human officials; in some texts it is used as a substitute for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven."
Jack-
You make a good point, but you're off in a couple of ways.
1. You say you have "too much understanding of the medical field" so you surely can't be comparing birth control that prevents sperm from fertilizing an egg to "infanticide." Surely as someone with great scientific understanding you know an infant is a child that's been born and doesn't refer to an ovum.
2. Birth control is a matter of family planning and as such it's a fundamental constitutional right. See Griswold v. Connecticut, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connec... There are very few fundamental rights.
3. Concerning civil disobedience if someone doesn't like the shackles that confines slaves then maybe they should get out of the shackle business. That's the best kind of civil disobedience and would make the strongest statement. When you choose to be in the business of serving the public you can't pick and choose what public to serve.