a) not a life and b) you realize that includes women, don’t you. and c) if you really want to reduce abortion, support sex education and contraception, but, oh yea, you don’t really care about “life”, you just want to control people and push your morality on others to feed your sense of self righteousness.
Some Years ago, I worked with a young woman who was very strongly anti-abortion, saying, “The baby has a right to be born.”She also smoked almost a pack of cigarettes a day at work. When she got pregnant and continued smoking I mentioned a study I’d read which mentioned that smoking while pregnant often caused retarded development of the fetus.She got angry and said that she had a right to smoke.She got angrier when I said that if a baby has a right to be born healthy.
All life matters. The concern should not end at birth. How this has become a political issue is beyond the bounds of logic and religion. My Republican grandparents told me to respect other people’s religious beliefs and not try to impose mine on anyone else. Has this changed? Are we no longer following the Constitution?
If you want there to be fewer abortions, make sex education better & make access to contraception easier. If you want to have more misery, try to legislate your morality.
Abortions are not funded by US taxpayer dollars, with exceptions for health/life of mother, rape and incest. The executive order takes funds away from organizations if they even TALK about abortions, not just those that PROVIDE abortions. So if a 10-year old is pregnant and bearing the child would ruin her physically for life, you can’t even tell her or her parents that abortion is an option. If a fetus dies in utero, you cannot advise that woman about an abortion option even if the dead fetus is poisoning her (remember the woman in Ireland). If a woman already has a lot of children, but her husband insists on unprotected sex, then she cannot be advised that abortion is an option. The Catholic organizations won’t tell people about birth control, and that is where the money would go instead.
BubbleTape Premium Member over 7 years ago
a) not a life and b) you realize that includes women, don’t you. and c) if you really want to reduce abortion, support sex education and contraception, but, oh yea, you don’t really care about “life”, you just want to control people and push your morality on others to feed your sense of self righteousness.
Melki Premium Member over 7 years ago
By all means . . . make sure fetuses have more rights than women.
walfishj over 7 years ago
IF all persons are created equal, do you include illegal aliens? Muslims? Anyone different from you. Steve Breen, you are such a hypocrite.
RAGs over 7 years ago
Some Years ago, I worked with a young woman who was very strongly anti-abortion, saying, “The baby has a right to be born.”She also smoked almost a pack of cigarettes a day at work. When she got pregnant and continued smoking I mentioned a study I’d read which mentioned that smoking while pregnant often caused retarded development of the fetus.She got angry and said that she had a right to smoke.She got angrier when I said that if a baby has a right to be born healthy.
martens over 7 years ago
In re: Trump’s abortion gag rule endangers maternal lives and increases the abortion rate by cutting funds for family planning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/opinion/silence-on-abortion-equals-death.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
Two studies showing that this gag rule increases the abortion rate internationally due to concurrent restriction of family planning resources.
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/12/11-091660/en/
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/evaluating-mexico-city-policy
So much for their highly touted reverence for the sanctity of life…
superposition over 7 years ago
All life matters. The concern should not end at birth. How this has become a political issue is beyond the bounds of logic and religion. My Republican grandparents told me to respect other people’s religious beliefs and not try to impose mine on anyone else. Has this changed? Are we no longer following the Constitution?
DrDon1 over 7 years ago
Some are “pro-birth” but NOT “pro-life!”
Lyman Elliott Premium Member over 7 years ago
I’ve said many times that no one says it any better than George Carlin: "If you’re pre-born you’re fine, if you’re pre-school you’re f*****.
Teto85 Premium Member over 7 years ago
If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 7 years ago
Breen, Trump is causing more abortions with this Executive Order:
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/12/11-091660/en/
If you want there to be fewer abortions, make sex education better & make access to contraception easier. If you want to have more misery, try to legislate your morality.
Nantucket Premium Member over 7 years ago
Abortions are not funded by US taxpayer dollars, with exceptions for health/life of mother, rape and incest. The executive order takes funds away from organizations if they even TALK about abortions, not just those that PROVIDE abortions. So if a 10-year old is pregnant and bearing the child would ruin her physically for life, you can’t even tell her or her parents that abortion is an option. If a fetus dies in utero, you cannot advise that woman about an abortion option even if the dead fetus is poisoning her (remember the woman in Ireland). If a woman already has a lot of children, but her husband insists on unprotected sex, then she cannot be advised that abortion is an option. The Catholic organizations won’t tell people about birth control, and that is where the money would go instead.
KCDockal over 7 years ago
Noticed you didn’t quote that correctly. Rather convenient to drop the “men” part.