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C-dub wrote:

ClarkLZeuss wrote:

C-dub wrote:Bill O'Reilly is discussing this right now on Fox News.

Doh! I had hoped he would, and wanted to hear his POV about it, cause he has really skewered Tiller over the years. What did he say?

He had a lot more information than I did, obviously. This guy had performed over 60,000 abortions with many being after 24 weeks gestation. I think he said that according to Kansas laws there must be a reason provided by the doctor that a late term abortion was medically necessary for the mother. Or something like that. Anyway, the excuses given by him in many of these cases was EXTREMELY flimsy.

nitrogen wrote:

C-dub wrote:KeithB,

O.G. & Nitro,

Similarities aside, aren't most of or at least many of our laws based on the Bible, not the Koran or Torah.

Laws in America come directly from Common Law from colonial times, as well as bits and pieces of Roman law. It can be argued that many laws from those times were influenced by the faiths of the people making them.

Most civilizations can agree on quite a few things, no matter what their faiths are (Don't murder, don't steal, don't lie, respect authority) and most faiths have commandments stating at least this. Therefore I'd think that most of our laws are based on commonalities in faiths, not one specific faith.