Abortion is a horrible business whatever way you look at it and most women who decide to have one rarely take the decision lightly. There is nothing terribly ennobling about terminating the life of a prospective human being at any stage, let alone as late as four or five months which unfortunately is the case in many instances.

I think the fetus is sensate and can experience pain at a much earlier stage; perhaps as early as 6-8 weeks and this should weigh in people's considerations....

On Feb. 22, 1974, Samuel Byck, carrying a briefcase bomb and a .22 pistol, entered Baltimore Washington Intl Airport. At a Delta Airline check-in desk he pulled his gun and shot dead an airport police officer, ran down the jet-way and boarded a DC-9 that was ready for departure to Atlanta. He ordered the pilots to take off, but they were not fast enough, they told him that wheel blocks had to be removed first. So he shot them too, killing the co-pilot. He then grabbed a female passenger and ordered...

Hia all here.

Plato's 'Republic' was possibly the first book of philosophy I've ever read and even to this day strikes me as containing everything a proper work of this nature should possess - a response to the basic question of how we should govern ourselves. His 'Last Days of Socrates' is still among my favourites - a principled stand against dogma (wherein we witness the full force of the elenchus unleashing itself) but most of all Socrates’ willingness to assume the position of ignorance in order to expose...

The economic and political problems related to population growth are all interconnected of course and shouldn't be considered in unison. As the oil runs out and prices rocket inputs for large-scale mechanised farming will rise which will push up farmers production costs and raise the price of grain; wheat, corn and basic staples will rapidly become unaffordable for the billion or so people on this planet who are already regularly on the brink of starvation.

The same oil is being spewed...