SHS Hits 15,000 Monthly Visitors
In less than a year when I began keeping track, visitors to Secondhand Smoke have increased from 10,000 to the just hit 15,000-plus visitors each month. I am most pleased. Granted, it isn't a Little Green Footballs or a Daily Kos, but I am happy.
The issues with which we grapple here are among the most important the world faces. I deeply appreciative everyone who takes the time to stop by here and who ponder the issues of human exceptionalism, intrinsic human worth, bioethics, assisted suicide, animal liberation, slavery, and the other matters covered here. And I wish to reeiterate a point I have made before about how impressed I almost always am by the thoughtfulness of the commenters here--and the courtesy with which people debate--an attribute too often lacking in the cybersphere. I will keep striving to find stories of interest and to find ways to make the site fresh and worthy of your important time. Thanks again to all.
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posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 9:15 AM
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2 Comments:
A most excellent site. It is much needed in this society. Do ever discuss abortion? I have been reading your blog for about 8 months now and have not noticed whether or not it has been directly addressed. On Jan 13, 07 you wrote something that needs clarification: "In the abortion case, Congress did pass such a law. So, will the courts rule consistently with Gonzales and its medical marijuana rulings? I doubt it. There is a factual distinction in that women have a constitutional right to abortion, which is not true of assisted suicide or consuming marijuana for medicinal purposes."
Is this your view? That abortion is a constitutional right in line with our founding father's intentions or are you just stating the current status?
Hi, Phos. Thanks.
We generally stay out of abortion here. I work in coalition with pro choice and pro life advocates on the issues about which I advocate. That is best done, with rare exception, by leaving that issue alone. Besides, once it comes up, that is all that is talked about.
The point stated was not an opinion one way or the other as to propriety, but was, as you stated, a description of the current status. It is what is. As I learned in law school, the Constitution means precisely what the Supreme Court says it does.
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