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I remember one particular training exercise when I was in the Marine Corps stationed in North Carolina about certain limitations put on us regarding how and where to conduct our field training. Apparently, there were some red-throated woodpeckers that were on an endangered list and they were living on that particular base. So the government had set aside some of the training area for these birds with their living area marked by yellow ribbons and their nesting trees marked with red ribbons. Of course, their marked territory was right in the middle of three separate training areas and a large portion of corner of our firing range. To think that the world's most powerful military was limited on it's own base because of some woodpeckers.
It reminds me of something I was reading about how Tennessee was forced by the Supreme Court to halt construction on the $116 million dollar Tellico Dam because it might destroy the Snail Darter (a 3-inch fish). And that California faced a similar situation when it's $340 million dollar dam project was legally challenged over a Daddy Long-Legs Spider that might have been destroyed.
However, it is our same Supreme Court that ruled on January 22, 1973, that until a human being is "capable of meaningful life," that the State has "no compelling interest" to prevent it from being aborted. What is going to happen to a nation that puts quotas on whales and porpoises (and even goes so far as to protect spiders), but allows over one million of its babies to be murdered each year?
I remember one particular training exercise when I was in the Marine Corps stationed in North Carolina about certain limitations put on us regarding how and where to conduct our field training. Apparently, there were some red-throated woodpeckers that were on an endangered list and they were living on that particular base. So the government had set aside some of the training area for these birds with their living area marked by yellow ribbons and their nesting trees marked with red ribbons. Of course, their marked territory was right in the middle of three separate training areas and a large portion of corner of our firing range. To think that the world's most powerful military was limited on it's own base because of some woodpeckers.
It reminds me of something I was reading about how Tennessee was forced by the Supreme Court to halt construction on the $116 million dollar Tellico Dam because it might destroy the Snail Darter (a 3-inch fish). And that California faced a similar situation when it's $340 million dollar dam project was legally challenged over a Daddy Long-Legs Spider that might have been destroyed.
However, it is our same Supreme Court that ruled on January 22, 1973, that until a human being is "capable of meaningful life," that the State has "no compelling interest" to prevent it from being aborted. What is going to happen to a nation that puts quotas on whales and porpoises (and even goes so far as to protect spiders), but allows over one million of its babies to be murdered each year?
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