There are apparently more videos on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DoWdHOtlrk&feature=player_embedded#

Seems like a pretty shaky foundation to draw up public policy on (i.e. H.R. 2454)

I guess you don't read/watch/listen to much news do you :)

Why not set up 802.11 in east Iraq?

Agreed.

And therein lies the rub. Dawkins is not making a case of mere ideas, opinions, or the evidence of hypothesis and testing. On the contrary, he states that unless you agree with his narrow understanding of reality and truth itself your must be both a deluded and unintelligent individual.

In other words, we're not talking about science vs. religion, but two competing religions.

I am not surprised at this turn of events because Dawkins' comments in the God delusion are widely considered to be hateful in nature. Consider that, in the United states, some 93-96 percent of people believe in God and some 40% of people believe in evolution. The intersection of these two is still significant, but the symmetric difference of these axioms is not. Dawkins holds that to be an intelligent scientific thinker you must hold to both strict naturalism and evolution apriori, which is not so subtly implying that all of the other 53-ish percent of humans living in the United states are basically drooling morons.

First the facts insofar as I am able to find, then my opinion.

Although 36 of 50 states have bans on late-term abortions they are still performed routinely. We must concede that any such attempt to put a number on this is fraught with statistical peril due to the fact that abortions are covered under privacy laws. However, just to get a general feel - Wikipedia cites that the CDC believes that some 1.4% of all abortions are performed late term or after 20 weeks. If this is accurate then the best estimates would indicate that some 700,000 late-term abortions have been performed in the US since roe v. wade.

Now my opinion: The 700,000 figure is based on nearly 50 million abortions performed since Roe v. Wade. Although this exact figure is disputed heavily by both left and right wing sides of the argument they both generally agree that some 25 - 33 percent of all pregnancies end in abortion. If you consider that 11 million people died in the Holocaust the math necessitates ought give even the coldest of individuals pause to consider at what point an embryo is a baby - i.e. a human being. Such inquiry is the same sort of foolishness that slave traders were guilty of, namely, marginalizing the humanity of a people group they don't understand.

So, my opinion, put bluntly. It's murder - it is always murder. Concerning the posters: be offended by the pictures, that's the point. It may seem tasteless but it is done for the reason that we remember the Holocaust. The difference in this case is that the conflict is not obscured by history or geography, but imminent.