 | Drummond (60)
08/17/2008 | I certainly do believe the woman has the right to choose whether her body is used as a vessel of birth, but I don't see how school choice is related. Basically, she can make the choice about where her kids go to school. She just can't make me pay for that choice.
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 | abichara (63)
10/06/2006 | I understand that the two issues are related to "choice", as in the choice of parents to take their children to private, or charter schools versus a mother having the choice to have an abortion. In my view there's no correlation between either issue. This listing is set up to point out that parents don't have the choice to take kids to whatever school they want (they do actually, there are private schools, charter schools and even parochial schools available, and in many instances, parents can receive government credits to attend those schools by vouchers) yet mothers can abort a child. This listing is designed to set up moral outrage that parents can't take kids to a school of their own choice, yet the mother can have an abortion should they choose. But the key here is that the concept of choice isn't related and is applied completely differently in both instances, because there is no correlation between these issues!
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
07/08/2006 | I think this one addresses the contradiction of the "pro-choice" crowd being against school vouchers.
Sucks asks an interesting rhetorical question, what's more conservative than go to school where you live or pay for private school? That sounds reasonable until you look at the rate of abject failure inherent in many urban schools.
The public school system, flawed though it may be, is the Holy Grail to many liberals and any alternative proposed is a threat to an enormous power base. And vouchers are just that, a threat to the public school system, which must not even be attempted. We don't want to know whether they might work, they're just bad.
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
07/05/2006 | Strange and convoluted attempt to bridge two seperate issues that so-called freedom-lovers want to be one. . .you go to school where you live or you pay for private school (what's more conservative than that?) and the Taliban would certainly agree with your attempts to control a woman's body. . .I think I'll try to bridge the issues of high medical insurance and the spotted owl. . .
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