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I am posting this in multiple places so that people would know where you stood:
Wow, you are contributing so much to the board. We all bow down to the power of your intellect.
-JulieF
By the way, why are you a coward? Why do you contribute nothing of substance, only dismal, vacuous one-liners or websites with no gravitas?
I am still trying to figure out why you are on here posting nothing that anybody would care about, then going back over to Proboards and saying, gee, they're so stupid, they're like the most backwards and rednecky of my relatives. A whole thread----seriously?
I'm concerned with the rights of a woman to have control over her own body and mind and not be pushed in either direction by anyone else.
I'm not getting into the "what is a life" argument because that just goes nowhere fast.
As far as the Republican stance on this topic, I find it horrible that the R's seem to want to get rid of abortion and at the same time get rid of funding that might help ease the financial burden of those who are forced to keep the child they cannot afford because hey! Bootstraps!
Like Kuus said, contraception is not 100% effective. The only way to 100% prevent pregnancy is abstinance. I don't think that's a reasonable request to make of any couple.
Abortion is rarely used as a form of birth control. Very very few women take abortion lightly and will just head off to the abortion clinic when they get pregnant after unprotected sex. That stereotype is about as accurate as the Welfare Queen.
This.
Also? I'm such a liberal, my uterus eats babies. 4 of them. I only thank God that the Personhood amendment failed here in Colorado, otherwise I'd be rotting in jail for committing uterine homicide.
But seriously though - this is such a complicated topic, I think it's quite unfair to say "Democrats love abortion!" There are a LOT of Democrats who don't - and who are pro-Choice but put an emphasis on enacting social programs that decrease the rate of abortion significantly.
Republicans are bad news for fetuses, whether they want to admit it or not.
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I would appreciate it if the 'pro-life' movement would start referring to themselves as 'pro-birth'. Let's be honest. You have no interest in taking care of those children once they're here (as evidenced by proposed massive cuts to social programs), but you stick to your guns because you don't like the idea of abortion.
You care about birth. You don't care about life. If you did, you've be in favor of a government that would collect more taxes from the extraordinarily wealthy and invest it in the lower income members of society who you would force to have children.
The problem with restricting abortion for only cases of rape and incest you're going to have a lot of rape and incest victims who are still within the hold of their abuser NOT getting abortions because of all the red tape, and you're going to have a lot of women who weren't raped making false reports of rape just to get an abortion they desperately want.
Making something illegal doesn't make it go away and regulating it only makes it more difficult for women who need it- also postponing their abortions, meaning their embryos getting larger, changing the very medical nature of their abortions, i.e. chemical v surgical, and it would even push some women who discovered their pregnancies late into the second trimester.
Children shouldn't be a punishment. They should be wanted by stable and mature individuals.
And that's why the right to choice is a good thing. Pro-choice does not automatically = abortion even in cases of rape.
Here is an article with a perspective I never even considered until I read it. The woman was raped, had her baby, and then the rapist sued for custody of the child which, apparently, is legal in 31 states.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/opinion/prewitt-rapist-visitation-rights/index.html
I can't imagine going through what she went through. To come to terms with and accept the pregnancy you didn't consent to and then to have the man that violated you come back for "his" child? Just blows my mind that he would even have a leg to stand on.