I was listening to bits and pieces of the Laura Ingraham show earlier this week as I was getting ready to go to work. At one point she was talking to a man who seemed to be involved with religion (I mean as a preacher or priest) and the subject was abortion. I just happened to be passing through the bedroom (the radio is my alarm) when I heard him say something to the effect that a fetus, if it was aware, should know to stay in the womb. As long as it remained a fetus, the Republicans cared for it. As soon as it is born, the Republicans no longer care for it.

That statement stuck with me and I mulled it over on my drive to work. What could he have possibly meant? Did he mean that Republicans think that fetuses should not be killed indescriminately but as soon as it is born then it is open season? As intertaining a thought that it is that some stupid Liberal would think that, I don't think that is what he meant.

No, he probably meant that the Republicans care about unborn fetuses but not for children -- only Democrats care for children. And the more I thought that over, the more convinced I became that this was indeed what he meant and the more disturbed I became at to what he was admitting.

Republicans, or maybe I should just say Conservatives or Right-Wingers, are just as concerned with babies in the womb as out and they are concerned with both in exactly the same way: they are against anyone killing them. Democrats (Liberals/Left-Wingers) have quite different feelings depending on which side of the birth canal the child happens to be on.

In the womb, Liberals aren't just indifferent to the fetus/unborn child. They fight tooth and nail to prevent any pregnant woman from coming into contact with any alternatives to abortion. They have specifically stated that an abortion is no more of a moral issue than trimming a hangnail. They don't just support abortion, they advocate abortion! There is such an elevation in the importance of abortion that they oppose any limitations to its practice. Of all the rights we have -- religion, speech, assembly, press, whatever -- name just one that has no limitations on its practice. Only abortion is so critically important.

So the fetus somehow manages to get through the gauntlet and, plop, it is born and promoted to "child." In a matter of minutes, this...thing...has gone from something to be destroyed whenever possible to something that is so important it becomes the keynote for much of the Liberal dialog: "Do it for the Children!"

OK, so now they care. But just what do they mean by the word "care"? One clue is to consider why they think the Republicans don't care. The Republicans are willing to let the parents take full responsibility for the raising and education of the child. Republicans even advocate lowering taxes so the parents are in a better financial position to provide for the child. They support institutions, such as marriage, which provide a better environment for the raising of a child. They oppose practices they feel have negative influences on little children, such as nudity, profanity and excessive violence in TV programs, movies, video games, radio or just on the sidewalks.

Democrats, to be blunt, don't. The care that Democrats feel for children extend no further than their favorite social program. When they speak of "caring for children," they only mean spending other people's money (Liberals donate far less of their own money and time to charity than Conservatives) on programs that, at best, have no real impact on improving the lives of children and, at worst, place substantial barriers in front of parents trying to raise their children.

Liberals, please give our children, and the families into which they are born, a much needed break and quit caring for them so much.