Rkmickey at aol.com wrote:
> And of course abortion is quite widespread in both countries,
> even compulsory under certain circumstances in China.
Views come in such wild combinations that litmus tests almost always fail -- i.e., there are almost no single issues which act as a predictor of a person's overall politics.
Abortion is one of the few such issues. Those who regard abortion as even remotely related to murder are simply not trustworthy as comrades. There must be exceptions -- I've just not met one in the last 25 years. This is one issue on which even almost all Catholic radicals split with their church.
Carrol