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The abortion debate: what a fizzer! : Comments
By Helen Pringle, published 11/3/2005Helen Pringle argues that on the basis of recent history the abortion debate won't result in any change.
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Some fizzer!
Keep up the good work. It is probably worth reminding ourselves of the broader context of Wendell Phillips speech to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1853:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — power is ever stealing from the many to the few…. The hand entrusted with power becomes … the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."