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I spent the day traveling to Rhode Island for Netroots Nation so what follows is an abbreviated version of Dispatches. We’ll be back up to full strength tomorrow including reports from all the happenings on the ground in Providence.
Anti-choice conservatives seems to be changing course a bit. Instead of going piece-meal after reproductive rights they’ve decided to go whole hog and put every conceivable anti-choice restriction into one big omnibus bill and ram it through. That’s exactly what’s happening in Michigan. And of course Michigan has taken a page from Kansas, so we can expect to see this tact in other states in the coming months and years. It would be one thing if Republicans were just writing ridiculous and cumbersome anti-choice bills, but it’s not just that. They’re denying fair debate and an honest exchange of ideas on these restrictions and THAT is a concern all Americans can get behind.
Not content introducing a host of new direct anti-abortion restrictions on the women of D.C., House Republicans decide to take the indirect route as well.
Really, PETA? How is this helping?
After continued reports of the forced sterilization of thousands of US women, a call to action to do something about it.
After seeing this, you’ll never look at pink ribbons the same.
Montana is pushing a fertilized egg as person ballot because what we need now is more personhood measures.
The anti-choice movement sees a tremendous victory in Wisconsin, but should they really be so cocky?
This might be my favorite reproductive health and justice story I’ve written. Planned Parenthood has teamed up with Los Angeles County school districts to provide reproductive health services in local schools and guess what? It’s working.
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+ add your ownGOD'S WORD SAYS A PERSONS LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. THAT SETTLES IT!
Carrie T.
Please, at the very least, TRY to spell God's word correctly!
And secondly, that's not God's word. That's God's word. Interpreted by straight white men. Let's keep that in mind.
This is a favorite passage among pro-life Christians, but they probably be much less enthusiastic about it if they knew more about the third verse. The philosophers of many cultures around Israel -- including Plato of Greece -- believed that the unborn were formed and designed in the soil of the earth, and then were supernaturally lifted into the womb of the mother. The third verse of this passage betrays this ancient superstition. Pro-life Christians try to get around this damaging observation by claiming it is only poetry. Which, of course, ruins their attempt to use this passage as literal science.
So tell us all about what God said to you - you do realize of course, that the bible is NOT written by God, right?
Carrie T: GOD'S WORD SAYS A PERSONS LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. THAT SETTLES IT! And “God” told you this when?
I think that you need to go back and read your bible - According to the bible, life begins at birth--when a baby draws its first breath. The bible defines life as "breath" in several significant passages, including the story of Adam's creation in Genesis 2:7, when God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul
.When Jehovah gave monetary equivalents to the value of people of certain age groups in Leviticus 27:1-7, the lowest values were given to children between the ages of one month and five years. Boy babies were worth five shekels, and girls were worth three. Below the age of one month, they did not even merit a price. For census purposes in Numbers 3:15, only male babies older than one month were to be counted. Below this age, they were not considered persons to be counted. Psalms 139:13-16: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." This is a favorite passage among pro-life Christians, but they probably be much less enthusiastic about it if
GOD'S WORD SAYS A PERSONS LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. THAT SETTLES IT!
this is completely archaeic way of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. i'm beginning to think that most woman should not go out at all unless it's to work and back to home. men are on the prowl everywhere. you must protect yourself. be home at 10 p.m. nothing good happens late at night. abortion should be up to the mother. she knows her limitations. god will forgive her if she choose not to be a single mother. i'm not advocating abortions but alot of times girls don't see these so called lovers beyond one time and have no help with bills and the kids are so unsupervised that the mother gets in trouble. pls advocate for abortion if the mother is in favor of it. it's her life. if she cannot support a child alone, god will forgive her.
this is completely archaeic way of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. i'm beginning to think that most woman should not go out at all unless it's to work and back to home. men are on the prowl everywhere. you must protect yourself. be home at 10 p.m. nothing good happens late at night. abortion should be up to the mother. she knows her limitations. god will forgive her if she choose not to be a single mother. i'm not advocating abortions but alot of times girls don't see these so called lovers beyond one time and have no help with bills and the kids are so unsupervised that the mother gets in trouble. pls advocate for abortion if the mother is in favor of it. it's her life. if she cannot support a child alone, god will forgive her.
this is completely archaeic way of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. i'm beginning to think that most woman should not go out at all unless it's to work and back to home. men are on the prowl everywhere. you must protect yourself. be home at 10 p.m. nothing good happens late at night. abortion should be up to the mother. she knows her limitations. god will forgive her if she choose not to be a single mother. i'm not advocating abortions but alot of times girls don't see these so called lovers beyond one time and have no help with bills and the kids are so unsupervised that the mother gets in trouble. pls advocate for abortion if the mother is in favor of it. it's her life. if she cannot support a child alone, god will forgive her.
this is completely archaeic way of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. i'm beginning to think that most woman should not go out at all unless it's to work and back to home. men are on the prowl everywhere. you must protect yourself. be home at 10 p.m. nothing good happens late at night. abortion should be up to the mother. she knows her limitations. god will forgive her if she choose not to be a single mother. i'm not advocating abortions but alot of times girls don't see these so called lovers beyond one time and have no help with bills and the kids are so unsupervised that the mother gets in trouble. pls advocate for abortion if the mother is in favor of it. it's her life. if she cannot support a child alone, god will forgive her.
"an egg is a person" No it isn't. An egg is one of a hundred thousand other cells stored in a woman's ovary until it's released to travel down into the uturus where chances are it will not grow into a human being. Instead it will just flow out of a woman's body with the rest of her menstral flow and be discarded. It seems like a woman should know this.
And they're targeting Wisconsin, those fools. Not if I can help it.
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