Jim Morin for February 05, 2012

And in this election year, the discussion will bet even more deranged, like “Save the babies, bomb Iran!”

What lies are you referring to Tig?

I’ve often seen folks post messages here and not bother to label them.

This is the first time anyone remembered the label and forgot the message.

The Komen Foundation’s alleged rationale for severing ties with Planned Parenthood was that they don’t want to fund any organization that is currently under investigation.

If that’s the case, then why did they also not end their relationship with Penn State?

Best cartoon today.

Good summary of today’s “Christian” climate.

I never call these folks, ‘Pro-Life,’ to me, they’ve always been the, ‘Anti-Choice’ crowd..

Abortion is a wedge issue that repubs use to motivate people to vote against their own interest. They want people to vote against educating their children, against taking care of retired workers, and against attainable health care for everyone so that those politicians who are owned by big corporations can be elected. Gay marriage and gun control are two other issues that are used to divide us. Against abortions? Then don’t get one.

This strip is ridiculous. Planned parenthood does NOT do mammograms or breast screening for cancer. They only refer and get paid money for doing so.

Cancer cells are living organisms inside a woman’s body, so, we have to ban “lumpectomies” and cancer surgery to remove these growths, right???

Abortions are not the real issue. Unwanted pregnancies are the real issue. Prevent unwanted pregnancies and the abortions issue all but goes away. It then becomes socially, morally, politically, and economically manageable.

We must stop the well-intended but miss-directed clamoring about the symptoms of the disease (abortion) and to start fully addressing its (viral) cause, i.e. unwanted pregnancies. We can do this by (1) Fully funding all Family Planning Programs and (2) fully educating, starting with 7th or 8th graders, our sons and daughters in the science of the personal and social ethical, moral, medical, mental, and economic issues and consequences of social and sexual behavior and choices.

Remember, in the end (like you and I did) our sons and daughters are going to make those decisions for themselves whether they have the best information or not. It is time we stop failing them.

Far Right or Left Political and Religious Fundamentalist Dogma’s always reek of beliefs and policies that put in place dead end, twisted moral and political standards that are then used to justify, at least to the practitioner’s satisfaction, the piles of dead and dying they leave in their wake. Let us count the ways: Communism, Stalinism, fascism, national socialism, laissez-fair capitalism and corporatism, collectivism, socialism, conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism, anarchism/nihilism, imperialism, despotism, plutocracies, theocracies, autocracies, and monarchies…that’s just about all of them, hmmmmm, that means that if we really want to change things that we are going to need a new and original system, any ideas? Or do we just continue to muddle-on trying to make the best of what we Have just a little better?

George Orwell was only partially guessing, his conjectures were based on what was taking place at the time and then projecting them to their logical conclusions. What is even scarier is that today’s science is making it possible to achieve, and in a much more technically precise way, what Aldous Huxley projected in his 1931 book “Brave New World.”

Probirth would be better. All talk about forcing births but little talk about helping kids in the system or poor single parents.

More like this. “She died because the person who was to find the cure was aborted!”

they don’t care what happens after you’re born. The 1st guy was finally seeing the real way it works. The 2nd guy don’t care about her.

“Orwell’s” father in real life had responsibility working for Britain to increase opium production in Afghanistan to hook more Chinese so the empire could expand. HIs view of the future was shaped by his father’s “diplomatic” function.

Pro-life, ha!

Why don’t you want to call it a child? Do you think it’s less human if you call it an unviable fetus? It’s still a human being. So what if it’s unviable? That’s part of the life process. You shouldn’t have the right to kill it. Also, you don’t have the first idea about what I give a fig about, so shut up about that.

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.