political suicide, you're correct - thats what I meant. I think those politicians were pretty stupid to vote against the bill, from a political standpoint - but thats my opinion. The rest of the population is welcome to think otherwise.

It is interesting that you assume is that I side with the husband. My original assertion was that the media was being one-sided in order to provide the best story, not the most facts - and its getting a lot of press because its an emotional subject. As an aside, I did read a very good article on CNN the other day (on my cell phone no less - when my internet connectionw as down). It actually provided a good summary of all of the recent happenings from a fairly unbiased perspective. My other point was that the fact that numerous courts have come to the same conclusion leads me to believe there is something that the media must be missing - even if the appellate courts only have the facts from the lower court. In my case, I'm too lazy to go read more about it, and therefore I am left with doubts for either position.

If you read my posts I never claimed that the protestors were uninformed. Nor did I claim to be more informed than they are. My claim was that average people were being spoon fed by the media and not being critical of the source of the material.

I do agree with erroring on the side of life. I also agree that the courts and legislation is perhaps struggling to keep up with the "issues of today", and perhaps more accuratly struggling to abstract the issues such that the technology becomes irrelevant.