Rod, your post, “Let’s Regulate, License, Tax, Credential Abortion,” is quite a provocative comment regarding abortion. The national debate mostly focuses on legalization v. prohibition. Maybe you are right that the real solution to the abortion holocaust is to throw a lot of red tape at it.

Of course, regulating abortion is nothing new. Laws are on the books limiting the terms of pregnancy during which abortion is legal; requiring a 24-hour waiting period; requiring parental notification for a minor seeking abortion; etc. Even Roe v. Wade only legalized abortion during the first two trimesters.

But hasn’t the court struck down abortion regulations that place an “undue burden” on a woman who is attempting to exercise her legal right to an abortion? Sounds like what you are proposing is exactly that: trying to eliminate or minimize abortion through burdensome legislation. Would the courts allow it?

Also, how can pro-life Christians get behind such a tactic, knowing that we are acquiescing to the suggestion that abortion is a legal right? Even if the result of your tactic is fewer abortions, can we with a clear conscience seek any other solution that prohibition?
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UPDATE (01/21/06): In response to the above post, Rod Heggy has written: “Wrong Attitude, Wrong Direction.”