A hotly contested though civil exchange. The starting point is the Hyde

Amendment, which sought to ban federal funding of abortion, but the general question can't help being raised. HJH: "George Will... said that if you think of people as meat, meat you'll become. And I think human life has become so cheap that human life has become just like animal life--not even as good as animal life, since we have quotas for dolphins, and we don't have quotas for human beings." HP: "I think human life becomes much more cheap when you say to a poor, sick woman, who has seven children and can't support them, 'I'm sorry, you'll have to go ahead and have the eighth.' "