Text 34799, 76 rader
Skriven 2009-08-07 18:06:00 av Lee Lofaso (3:800/432.0)
  Kommentar till text 34794 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: affordable health care
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Hello Ross,

>LL>The same people who are so vocally opposed to abortion are
>LL>the biggest proponents of the death penalty.  Whether by hanging,
>LL>gassing, firing squad, lethal injection, beheading, or any other
>LL>means, the death penalty is *good* in their eyes.

RC>and it is in yours...

Those on life row should be allowed to die a natural death,
same as everybody else outside of life row.

RC>Reverse your logic, you all favor killing babies but not murderers.

Abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare."  Anything less would
be an abomination.

Look at it this way.  You are not a woman.  As such, who are you to say
who should, or should not, get an abortion?  You have absolutely no idea
what goes on in a woman's mind when she is preggers.  The decisions she
makes should be her own, hopefully with advice from her physician.

Making abortion illegal, especially when including cases of rape
and/or incest, makes things very unsafe for a woman.  And especially
unsafe if the individual who is pregnant is a young girl.

What happened before Roe v. Wade was women would terminate their
pregnancies any which way they could.  Including hiring what was
commonly called "abortion doctors", who may not have been doctors
at all.  Oh, wealthy women could afford to get abortions in this
country - legally - by bribing a real doctor to say her life was
in danger if she tried to carry the baby to term.  And many did
just that.  Pay a doctor thousands of dollars, in cash, to perform
the service.  Those women who could not afford to pay had to resort
to cheaper means - such as using a coat hanger.

Is that what you want?  Thousands upon thousands of young women
endangering their own lives because CONservatives are so holier
than thou as to mandate women to give birth - whether they want
to or not - while at the same time encouraging their wives and/or
girlfriends to get an abortion (they could afford to do so legally)
so as not to be embarrassed that their lady was cheating on them?
Oh, don't get me wrong.  CONservatives do their own share of
cheating.  And some of them even get caught.  But listening
to their sob stories, always with their wife at their side,
they have done nothing wrong.  Like Jerry Falwell, they have
"sinned", and beg to be forgiven.  And then, come election time,
people are stupid enough to actually vote for them.  Again.

But hey.  That is not what CONservatives want.  What CONservatives
really want is to maintain the status quo.  Keep abortion legal.
Not that CONservatives care about women, or the lives of anybody.
What CONservatives want is POWER.  The POWER over life and death.
To say who lives.  And who dies.  That is why CONservatives never
sought to make abortion illegal during GWB's reign of terror.
Not even when CONservatives controlled both houses of Congress,
and seven of nine justices of the Supreme Court on their side.

Far better that abortion is "safe, legal, and rare."  Just as
Bill Clinton (the man who cannot keep his pants zipped up) said
so many years ago.  Even CONservatives agree with Mr. Bill.

If CONservatives were truly as pro-life as they claim to be,
then CONservatives would be leading the call to ban the death
penalty.  But no.  CONservatives would never do that.  Better
to kill `em all, let God sort `em out.

After all, nobody deserves to be on life row.

--Lee


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