I've always felt that to understand someone's perspective you have to understand their views on a number of issues. Only through looking at their views in aggregate can you begin to understand where they are coming from and why. In doing this, you're able to contrast their views with your own and broaden your perspective.

This page contains articles I find interesting as well as a series of numbered posts which I have written. Taken together, these form a synthesis of my views on a number of current issues (and yes, the numbered posts are ordered in such a way as to reflect their relative importance to me). Although I am not registered with either party, I tend to have a distinctively left slant. After reading my posts, consider the issues again in terms of the tradeoff between individual freedoms and economic freedom. (Check out the multi-axis spectrum linked in the left sidebar.)

Submit your comments to these posts - I look forward to hearing your views and responses. Whether we agree or disagree is irrelevant. The dialog is what matters. Our form of government relies on having an interested electorate and the very fact that we are discussing our views on these important issues perpetuates its success.

(10) Abortion

Since studying the case in law school, I have been a firm supporter of the Supreme Court's holding in Roe v. Wade.

I agree with the trimester analysis as well as the "viability" distinction which they drew. I feel very strongly that within the framework set forth in Roe, the government has no right to interfere with a woman's decisions regarding her body and any such interference is a violation of the right to privacy that is protected under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
This has been made into a moral issue, but it is not. This is squarely about who has the power to decide - the government or the individual. I will go with the individual every time.
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