AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Main Entry: vi·a·ble Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation: vbl
Function: adjective
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from vie life (from Latin vita) + -able -- more at VITAL
1 a : capable of living <the skin graft was viable> <viable cancer cells> <a viable infant>
b of a fetus : having attained such form and development of organs as to be normally capable of living outside the uterus <a 7-month viable fetus>

vi·a·ble (v-bl)
adj.
1. Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/viable

Well, that's why it has a very specific meaning when used as "viable with a fetus".

At least that's how non-native English speakers learn it. Via American dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

. . . . In February, California's Democratic-controlled Legislature, faced with a $42 billion budget deficit, trimmed $74 million (1.4 percent) from one of the state's fastest-growing programs, which provides care for low-income and incapacitated elderly people and which cost the state $5.42 billion last year. The Los Angeles Times reports that "loose oversight and bureaucratic inertia have allowed fraud to fester."

But the Service Employees International Union collects nearly $5 million a month from 223,000 caregivers who are members. And the Obama administration has told California that unless the $74 million in cuts are rescinded, it will deny the state $6.8 billion in stimulus money. . . . .

Such a federal ukase (the word derives from czarist Russia; how appropriate) to a state legislature is a sign of the administration's dependency agenda " maximizing the number of people and institutions dependent on the federal government. For the first time, neither sales nor property nor income taxes are the largest source of money for state and local governments. The federal government is. . . .

. . . .The Economist says the administration has "ridden roughshod over [creditors'] legitimate claims over the [automobile companies'] assets. . . . Bankruptcies involve dividing a shrunken pie. But not all claims are equal: some lenders provide cheaper funds to firms in return for a more secure claim over the assets should things go wrong. They rank above other stakeholders, including shareholders and employees. This principle is now being trashed." Tom Lauria, a lawyer representing hedge fund people trashed by the president as the cause of Chrysler's bankruptcy, asked that his clients' names not be published for fear of violence threatened in e-mails to them. . . .

. . . .The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity " the political allocation of wealth and opportunity " is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption. . . .

WHOLE ESSAY HERE:
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will051409.php3

So far as the unwanted children of the world, the kindest thing to do is to kill them? Why is not the kindest thing to do to teach adults personal responsibility and to accept the consequences for their choices and behavior?

As we should all be aware, even some fetus die before they are delivered from the womb. Natural abortion occurs whether right-to-lifers wish them to have a life.

Every single one of us WAS viable from the moment of our conception or we would not be here.

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Every single one of us WAS viable from the moment of our conception or we would not be here.

You are plain and 100% wrong. We were not viable from the moment of our conception. You are trying to use definitions that do not fit the discussion, because using the actual definition is harmful to your case.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

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Every single one of us WAS viable from the moment of our conception or we would not be here.

You are plain and 100% wrong. We were not viable from the moment of our conception. You are trying to use definitions that do not fit the discussion, because using the actual definition is harmful to your case.

Cycloptichorn

Cyclop, at your insistence, I've already conceded that you weren't viable and don't exist or else you are a second attempt at Frankenstein's monster. What else can I say?

That you are so eager to attack and so reluctant to actually defend your own arguments tells me that I really hit sore nerves with you. And that alone tells me that I am more right than you are. You might take the hint.

I believe personality is determined by factors which do not exist until a person can survive without being attached to another person's body.

It works both ways DTOM. Either you approve education and social pressures for people to be responsible or you don't.

Either you put your money where your mouth is... (running) orphanages. I know a LOT of pro-life groups who are.

I know many wonderful couples who have been waiting and waiting for an infant to adopt but those giving up their babies for adoption are almost non-existent.

The problem is neither as cut and dried nor as simple as the pro-abortion advocates wish to make it and the many other elements at play in the issue are usually denied by those who point fingers ... and accuse

Many pregnancies do end without coming to full term even when the mother heroically attempts to save them. But that is nature. But you are here DTOM. CI is here. I am here. Walter is here. Cyclop is here. Every single one of us WAS viable from the moment of our conception or we would not be here.

And not one of us would be here had our mothers opted for abortion.