As a moral issue, I say look at the old testament and see exactly what the penalty is for causing a miscarriage. It isn't death... it was monetary. If you killed the mother though, that was death. The value was placed on the person who was born, not the unborn child. So if we are using the bible as a moral barometer, lets have some perspective.
I believe it is in Leveticus, which they cite as condemning homosexuality... these hypocrites need to take it all literally or not at all... they should not pick and choose to fit their agenda.
The real question is: Which party will actually reduce the number of abortions? (This is raised and addressed very well by Jim Wallis in his book "God's Politics, Why the Right Gets is t Wrong and the Left Doesnt; Get It")
The abortion rate was down during the Clinton years, primarily because those more likely to have them were better off.
Futher, if Bush and his Congressional allies really want to protect the unborn, they had better get on this NOW:
Unborn Babies Soaked in Chemicals, Survey Finds http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/071405HA.shtml
Excerpt:
Thursday 14 July 2005
Washington - Unborn U.S. babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, gasoline byproducts and pesticides, according to a report to be released Thursday.
Although the effects on the babies are not clear, the survey prompted several members of Congress to press for legislation that would strengthen controls on chemicals in the environment.
The report by the Environmental Working Group is based on tests of 10 samples of umbilical cord blood taken by the American Red Cross. They found an average of 287 contaminants in the blood, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and the Teflon chemical PFOA.
"These 10 newborn babies ... were born polluted," said New York Rep. Louise Slaughter, who planned to publicize the findings at a news conference Thursday.
"If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb," Slaughter, a Democrat, said.
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Republican emphasis on criminalizinbg a procedure without adressing the despation that makes peolple consider it is part of their pattern of talking the talk without walking the walk.
You can't judge policy by laws passed, only by results achieved. This is true of lowering the abortion rate, improving school achievment (No Child Left Behind sure sounds good, but where's the money) protecting the envirnment (note the Orwellian Clear Skies Initiative, which protects us from industrial pollutants by _increasing) the amount of poison we breath), or defense (London).
Likewise, we can't just complain without offering our alternatives and allowing the same accountability that we demand.
I still think Hillary has it best so far... Our goal should none per year. We achieve this through more adoption, better contraception education and availability. However, we need to have legal abortions as a public health issue. No one wants to go back to back alley coat hangers.
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You go to a clinic, it's done by a doctor, and its damned invasive.
What is it if not health care? I mean... you get an abortion to mainatin your health is its normal state, rather than moving through the whole pregnacy-birth cycle.
You may not think its necessary, or justified... but if its not health care, tell me what it is.
but trying say that abortion is a cosmetic operation is just despicable. personally, i didn't think anyone was backwards enough to imply that abortion is a cosmetic surgery, but i guess i was wrong... wow... truly disingenuous... golf clap... nice job...
but it doesn't matter... because all of those are health care...
as are mental health treatments, efforts to stop smoking or lose weight, and just about anything that goes to adjusting the dimensions or operating parameters of your body...
so... you are one of those people who think that women just run around getting abortions willy-nilly because they don't like the pill? maybe you think they prefer repeated invasive procedures to pill-popping??
just not sure where you're coming from...
