Intro: "In states across the country, women are being arrested for the crime of ending their own pregnancies - though they have a constitutional right to do so in a doctor's office. Michelle Goldberg on a worrisome new trend."
Woman at window. (photo: Cultura/Corbis)
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As for your 50 Million potential American citizens, call me when you've found enough jobs, affordable housing and healthcare for the people who are already born and alive in this country. Only an ideological moron would suggest that this country would be better off with another 50 million people when we can't take care of the ones we already have.
The real moral issue here is that you fundamentalists only care about "life" before it is born. And you do everything in your power to make it impossible for us to care for life AFTER it is born. You have it completely ass-backwards. But that's what happens when your belief in a book of fairly tales takes precedence over the reality on the ground. And the reality on the ground is that people have sex, people make mistakes, some people can't afford to bring more children into the world, and society can't afford to bear the burden of those children.
Or did you make your decisions after the extremely radical religious folks began their campaign, even with the help of democrats, against abortion. Was it when George H.W.'s administration began an earnest effort to divide citizens - abortion being an easy one to manipulate. Or once the extremes began getting elected and entering school boards? Or was it when George W. jumped in with a message from god?
Whenever it was, you took the bait and joined the effort to run it into the rest of us. See? A LOT of us know your side of the argument.
Look, the issue is about choice and clearly it is't a choice for you but it is for others. We live in a diverse society and need to trust people to make responsible choices that work in their life. If you really want to provide an element of choice why not work for fully funding social programs such as welfare and food stamps. Why not work for healthcare and housing. You want to provide people with a choice then give them the support they need to make it. I am biased and see this as a woman's issue. Sorry, but your body is not on the line with this issue.
We are rightly outraged by the Taliban "morality police". Sadly, we remain silent when it comes to our own.
What makes this really bad it that the men don't have to take responsibility personally or under the law.
Intrusive government is not the domain of Democrats. It is solely the device of the Republican Party. And they are peering more and more into the lives of women.
I's ok the GOP/TP will take care of overpopulation with "vouchers" - and if you've had a kid - you have a pre-existing condition.
I Hate the STupremes who gave big corporations first amendment rights to "buy our government" --- Scalia/Thomas slept with Koch brothers b4 that 2010 decision and now should resign (No Supreme should make a decisonj by $$ or political influence.
VOTE 2012 -- register now and request a "mail-in" ballot (in case the repugs move your polling place) -- get granny to vote too
we are saddled with a Republican party cum TeaBag Stupidity party that are so caughtup in their own filthy minds they are willing to create this kind of horror as an ordinary way of dealing with "their" problems, not ours.
If they take the Senate in 2012 you can be sure we will be well on our way to the Dictatorship the George W Bush claimed would have made his job as president so much easier.
That is where we are headed.
You have choices!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
How Planned Parenthood Duped America
Sanger's other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as "scientific" and "humanitarian." And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America's human "breeding stock" and purging America's "bad strains." These "strains" included the "shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South."
Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as "unfit," a plan she said would be the "salvation of American civilization.: And she also spike of those who were "irresponsible and reckless," among whom she included those " whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers." She further contended that "there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped." That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of Sanger considered "unfit" cannot be easily refuted.
And Planned Parenthood, which I used years ago, is one of the best things that has happened to America. Women for the first time were able to get some control over their own bodies. Exactly what the repugs do not want.
It's simple, if you don't believe in abortions don't have one. If you want to make the decision for someone else - support that child yourself.
Vote 2012 -- register now. Get granny + old man down street registered now (post office) and request a "mail-in" ballot - deadline is about a week before voing date.
Look at who is contributing to the GOP/TPer if you're considering voting for one of them - it will be big corporations bc in 2010 the Stupremes gave big $ "first amendment rights" -- an UNCONSTITUTIONA L decision.
Scalia/Thomas were wined/dined with Koch brothers before that decision. LAW states that a Stupreme who makes a decision based on $$ or politics -- MUST BE impeached. So you 2 should resign to save us $$.
VOTE 2012 -- no more Repubs -- There are a few really GOOD Dems but I see NOT one decent GOP/TP in Congress -- do you? (and this is my opinion)
I was young and pregnant when abortion was made illegal by the US government that these idiots claim to HATE. It was a nightmare for those who decided to go to "the back alley" for abortions or just did it on their own with a coat hanger. But there were NO arrests for self-inducement that I was aware of.
I, instead, had a child and because I was too young and poor to raise it on my own, gave it up for adoption...anot her nightmare...too long of a story.
Suffice it to say, this is certainly going to be the icing on the cake for a failing, imploding America that sees family planning as wrong and equal only to abortion.
Get a grip, America; you're on the downward slide, and it's your greatest treasure that will suffer most: ALL people.
Stop the madness!
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