Wow! Who could have imagined this! What else could they be hypocrites on, I wonder?
GOP brushing off abortion opponents
In South Dakota, where fewer than 1,000 abortions are performed annually, Republican leaders voted to ban all abortions except to save a mother’s life. Nine other state legislatures have followed suit with their own attempts to directly overturn Roe vs. Wade.
You might think this would be a big priority in Florida, where roughly 90,000 abortions are performed annually and where Republican leaders regularly tout their “prolife” credentials.
You might think so, but you would be wrong.
“All they have done is protect and make the rich richer and make the poor poorer and give all the benefits to insurance companies and the HMOs. I challenge them to give as much effort to passing the South Dakota initiative as they did to saving Terri Schiavo after 50 or 60 judges had said no, or to repealing joint and several.”
Liberals and plenty of Republicans have long questioned whether conservative leaders really want to make abortion illegal. Removing it from their culture war arsenal would be a blow to the GOP get-out-the-vote playbook.
In his 2004 bestseller, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank argued that Republicans have convinced working class and middle class Americans to vote against their own self-interest based on cultural wedge issues to which the GOP ultimately only pays lip service.
I’m always amazed why people continue to argue about this. Debate my ass! No one can debate a decision that is mine, and mine alone to make.
Abortion is MY DECISION, my choice, and only mine. I don’t go around telling other people how to make decisions. This whole thing is akin to having ME decide if you should put your aged, confused and demented mother in a retirement home, make your husband get his prostrate surgically removed instead of radiation therapy or chemo, or if you should pull the plug and donate your child’s organs….those are your decisions about YOUR LIFE. Heck, maybe the government should just mandate that all women — after child bearing age — should have their breasts removed, because they’re not doing anyone any good Dictating abortion is just as stupid!!!
Do, you really want the government — or ANYONE — to mandate these things?
A zygote is a fertilized egg. Big deal. IT’s not life. It’s a chicken egg where the rooster met the hen. A lot of fertilized eggs fail to implant..is that murder, too? Give me a break. Women miscarry (although, technically, an early one is called a spontaneous abortion). Is this murder? Men jack off…is this killing sperm? Should we really value life more than anything? All life, or just babies that happen to be conceived at the wrong moment and are unwanted?
What pro-life advocates fail to take into account….is that it’s worse to life life unwanted and uncared for, abused or abandoned…than it is to never have lived at all.
Is life so unvalued that a life of suffering is considered better than no life at all? Do you know how many children live in foster homes and orphanages around the world because no one wanted them….and still don’t want them? How many pro-life advocates have a housefull of abandoned and orphaned and unwanted children that they’ve decided to raise? Very few, I suspect. Have any of them ever held a premature drug addicted infant (they cry 24/7, by the way) who is the result of a quick trick by a crack whore. What about the children with massive physical and mental deficiencies? What about the children that are shaken by parents that are too stressed out..and reduced to being vegetables. These “babies” need 24 hour, intense care all their limited lives. Who cares that these babies would have been spared if the mother had access to low cost abortion?
These aren’t the picture of the “white, well fed babies” of the propaganda….but they all exist.
Oh sure, in “theory” every baby should be wanted. But this isnt’ lalalala land, it’s reality. And reality is…poor women ARE the most likely to get pregnant (very few contraceptive services are available low-cost or free anymore), and these are women who are most hurt by additional children.
AS for the stupid RHINO republicians…and the Christian right….they should just stop this nonsense. Quit spouting stupidity, and think!