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The battle over abortion rights is really two-fold. On the one hand it is a battle fought legislatively and in the courts, and on the other, it is a battle for hearts and minds. It’s this second front, the hearts and minds, that the Susan B. Anthony List is fighting with the explicit goal of making even the most extreme Republican position on abortion rights–like fetal personhood–seem reasonable.
Case in point, they did it. Republicans officially declared that they are the party of fetal personhood and outlawed contraception. Not that we’re surprised.
It appears that Mitt Romney’s unwillingness to publicly own his radical anti-abortion position is starting to erode his support among the radical anti-abortion wing of the Republican base.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have made a splash last night at the Republican National Convention, but there are at least five reasons why we shouldn’t believe a word he says.
Here’s one creative response to the desperate shortage of access to safe, affordable abortion care.
Fracking and environmental pollution have made our tap water unsafe to drink in some regions of the country, yet our politicians seem incapable of acting and remedying the situation. Maybe that would change if they were forced to drink the water.
These coal miners were forced to attend a Mitt Romney political rally and lose a day’s pay to boot. For real.
We’re putting Elmo stickers on apples and Disney Princess stickers on grapes. Annie Urban asks if that kind of commercialization of healthy food is a good thing.
Go vegetarian or the world will go hungry.
Zerlina Maxwell offers this great piece on how rape is not sex because this is a point of some confusion on the right.
Mazel tov! The world’s oldest woman turned 116!
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+ add your ownIt's not "War on women"! It should be called "War on the innocent little baby"! Taking the life of a baby and calling it a woman's right is so sick! Yeah, it's okay for me to kill my baby...yeah right! Ask God, the Maker of that precious little soul" if He agrees with you. You can bet He is NOT! Murder is murder, and it is NEVER okay, or somebody's right!
I'm sick of this topic, too. Obviously, those of you who depend on religious beliefs, aren't going to change your minds... unless somehow a rape, an incest, a tubular pregnancy, or some other kind of terrible incident happens to someone you love that makes you think again. So why can't we just agree to disagree...? Those of you who believe in what you think the scriptures tell you, must also believe the phrase, "Let go, and let God...[handle it]" If you're right, the rest of us [heathens] will all go to Hell when our time comes. That's not your concern. Let God deal with it. But if God doesn't DO SOMETHING... then you can presume He doesn't find it important enough to interfere. After all, a Soul allegedly never dies...He gave us Free Will for a reason, and He told the rest of you, "Judgement is mine," saith the Lord. Why can't you just pray, and put your beliefs in God's hands? (Is it because you don't trust that God will be able to take care of it?! Wow, what faith you must have, if that's why you think you have to take action in God's Name?) As for the rest of us, we will depend on The Constitution and our Elected Leaders (plus our votes) to ensure our Rights, which include control of our bodies, Equal Pay, Equal Medical Coverage, Equal Marriage Rights, and the right to decide when and if we want to have children at all. CASE SETTLED! Now go to church.
To people like James....who wrestle with MY "moral" decisions to terminate a pregnancy....it "becomes" more than "a fertilized egg" when it can live on its own, outside the uterus.
If it were not so....people would be holding FUNERAL RITES for the miscarried little blobs of tissue which are NEVER recognized as "a baby."
I'm so sick of this argument. A fertilized egg is a far cry from being a child. A fertifilized egg is a potential life only. Lots of things could still go wrong. Would you condemn a mother for an accidental miscarriage if the fertilized egg turned out to be a blighted ovum? Or failed to attach to the uterine wall? What about in the case of a tubal pregnancy? Would you force a woman to continue to carry the fertilized egg until she dies a horrible painful death? Until you get a functioning uterus of your very own, James K, you should stay out of this one.
James we've been through this before. zygotes, embryos, fetuses aren't children. Your view isn't scientific it is the one that is arbitrary. Your kindly paternalistic approach while it may be appreciated by some, falls once again. The life you speak of becomes a child when it is born.
Most states do no allow abortions beyond 24-25 weeks well before there is a connected delineated brain mass differentiated by white and gray matter which occurs after 3 months out of the 9 month experience in the womb. It is not a human being until then. I realize your faith based on imaginary friends won't allow you to accept that. Let go of it. It is misogynistic and presumptive of you.
Heather - I can understand that it takes place in a woman's body, and I am trying to understand the sensitivity of that most delicate of situations. But I am also trying to recognize the other life involved. A fertilized egg is not just an egg anymore; it is a zygote cum embryo cum fetus... Let me ask it this way - when is it no longer just a fertilized egg to you? (You know my point of view obviously, which seems to me the only scientifically valid one. It seems to me if one chooses any other time in the developmental process one is being arbitrary. And thus the danger comes in, in my view, because such subjectivity about the beginning of life can lead to other subjective judgments on the worth of a life, etc. and people deciding who lives and who dies, much as was done in Nazi Germany. For what it's worth, I think the question is how can we respect and show compassion for the woman/mother and her situation and show compassion for the new life developing at the same time.
It's really very pointless to debate someone who a) can't tell the difference between a fertalized egg and a toddler and b) can't grasp the concept that reproduction takes place within a woman's body.
Heather - I wasn't speaking of women controlling their own lives; I was speaking of mothers taking the lives of their children in the womb, what would be to me controlling another's life. I was trying to get statements as to when that control would end - should it last until a year or two after birth, as some (Peter Singer) have proposed… or longer… or just when the child comes out of the womb…? At what point does that life become another life that one cannot control by destruction? (And I wonder why the control of a woman's own life should depend so much on her ability to destroy the life in her womb… It seems to me that women are doing the things that uncaring, selfish men do to them. Is the solution to be just as uncaring as they?)
The opposition to abortion is from men who fear women being able to control their own lives. If you doubt that just read the comments here from men like Nikolas K who says women "use sex as a form of control to get what they want from life" and James K who says "I can only see the danger in anyone, even a mother, being given such power."
Majority of abortions are from woman who lack self love and just cannot face up to the consequences of their actions. They want their cake and want to eat it as well. They use sex as a form of control to get what they want from life and fail to understand that for all our actions in life come responsibility and consequences. They see murder as a viable option just like our governments sending troops into foreign lands under the creation of an entity that does not exist
called terrorist to kill to get their control of the assets .
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