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Posted on June 20 at 8:47 a.m.
what a freakin' troll LOL
Posted on January 23 at 6:50 p.m.
Wow, nothing like misspelled christian fanatic chain email in screaming caps and sans punctuation. Yep.
Posted on January 23 at 6:45 p.m.
Regarding viability, take your first trimester fetus out of the womb and see how well it does without brain development, adequate circulatory development, things like skin and lungs..
Most abortions are completed around or before the first trimester, somewhere between 12 and 15 weeks. Delays often have a lot more to do with the difficulty of getting to a clinic before further development of the fetus occurs, and this is usually the cause for an attempt at a "late term" abortion.
Pro-lifers seem to think this is just some casual decision like changing one's haircolor - that it's not a difficult choice to make. It's not like getting a manicure.. women are required to go through a battery of physical examinations and usually a 24 to 72 hour waiting period in which they are given time to change their minds when they schedule the procedure. Then, day OF the procedure, the woman is usually kept at the clinic for several hours more, and usually isn't even fully sedated - all so that she has an option to say "no" up to the last minute.
and kmbjd40.. if my mother had decided that NOT giving birth to me would have been in her best interest, how could I argue with that? Why would I wish suffering upon my own mother? I agree with another poster here in that there are worse things than not being born.
The hard religious line usually drawn in this debate never fails to surprise me in its unabashed lack of faith in the mercy and wisdom of its purported deity. It would seem to me if you TRULY believed in the omnipotence of God, you wouldn't feel the need to micromanage the issues which lie solely between himself and individual humans that are supposed to be in his hands, NOT yours. If you're so convinced in the power, wisdom, love, mercy, and grandiosity of God, who the heck are you to sit here on earth, committing your own brands of sin, and trying to do "corrective" work that's supposed to be within HIS jurisdiction alone?
Posted on January 23 at 12:17 p.m.
Momof1,
don't you think it's a LITTLE presumptuous to think that, as an adult, I haven't made my choice already? Or that you are going to be the one that gets the "soul saver" points because you're going to be the one and ONLY person who I've ever heard this from?
you know, the "hard sell" thing doesn't work very often, if anything it drives people away because it insults their intelligence and comes across as short-sighted and/or manipulative.
Posted on January 23 at 12:10 p.m.
momof1, by that logic, you bear a burden for suicide bombers, homeless people, welfare fraud, substance abusers, the economic crisis, the Kennedy assassination, the innumerable violations of civil rights in Africa, etc, etc, etc..
you better get hoppin.. that's a whole lot to answer for.
Black and white, all or nothing right?
Posted on January 23 at 12:02 p.m.
Momof1,
NEWSFLASH
Not everyone believes in your God.
*GASP*
No matter how biblical you want to get on here, it won't make a bit of difference to a legal citizen of this country who is interested in his or her own personal legal rights that shouldn't have ANYTHING to do with your personal religious preference.
oh oh oh.. omg.. and guess what? There are people who DO believe in your God and have different interpretations of the bible. There are probably things that those people believe that would leave YOUR congregation with a case of the dry heaves.
That's actually supposed to be one of the PERKS to living in America. Freedom from religious persecution. Those American freedoms are what we've used to indoctrinate and inspire all those poor men and women who are overseas getting killed and losing limbs to PROTECT those fundamental American freedoms.
Guess what, Momof1? What you and other people who are demanding an end to choice are preaching, IS religious persecution. YOUR religion persecuting others who want nothing to do with your overbearing religious dogma. If you can't understand this, you'd best STAY in this end of the country. It's not acceptable in most other places.
if you're so secure in the righteousness of your beliefs, I fail to see why you need to bolster it by forcing them upon others.
Posted on January 23 at 11:46 a.m.
momof1, even better.. you're only allowed to enjoy sex as a married woman.
So much for equal rights. As soon as you can find some men who'll agree that they only enjoy sex while married, and you can make enough of a movement out of it, MAYBE you'll have a point.
However, the extremely high number of women raising children ALONE should tell you something. It must look like a pretty sad world to you if you honestly believe that every one of those women are just loose and easy. The truth is that a lot of them start out married and men leave to go enjoy sexual freedom outside of marriage.
but apparently in your narrow, black and white world, it's okay for women to be nothing but breeding stock that must be "managed" properly
Posted on January 23 at 11:23 a.m.
freedom42,
In regard to public health and the availability of birth control... you go try it.
While attending a local university in this area, I was subjected to a presentation on sex and STDs in a college biology class by a woman who could not bring herself to utter the proper names for male and female reproductive organs. Additionally, all she spoke about was abstinence and the "scare em celibate" photos of advanced STD/STI cases were either mislabeled, or they were conditions that had nothing whatsoever to do with sexually-transmitted conditions. We were told that having sex would increase risk for breast and testicular cancer, and all sorts of ridiculous claims intended to demonize sexuality. When students ASKED this woman from a local health department about birth control options, we were dismissed and told that if we didn't practice abstinence, we were practically as good as dead. Finally someone flat-out asked if we COULD get birth control from the health department and we were told that we would have to fill out a form declaring ourselves sexually active, and that we would have to pay fees comparable to that of a doctors office because the health department would not foot the bill for our "risky behavior". She then told us that the other option was to fill out the same form and declare ourselves abstinent, but as such we couldn't expect to get birth control from the health department because the form would indicate that we didn't need it.
So, I asked the question "What if you declare yourself abstinent, but a year or so later you come back with a baby and need help or birth control?" Her reply was "Having that baby should have been birth control enough. You can't expect the health department to help you when you LIED on a legal document and now have evidence (the baby) that you engaged in sexual activity despite claiming that you were abstinent"
I excused myself at that point, thinking of the innumerable things wrong with the presentation, what she was saying, how illegal, illogical, and as far as I am concerned, inhumane implications to all that this STATE HEALTH REPRESENTATIVE was telling us. In a college classroom, no less.
So you go have fun trying to get the health department to help you out with anything. Especially if you're young, unmarried, and low on income. In other states? Yeah, health departments are very helpful in obtaining birth control. It usually works along that whole "separation of church and state" thing, wherein personal expectations of people based on certain religious dogma do not determine whether they will be able to get health care or not. In Mississippi, it's nonsensical, superstitious, and backwards, like most things.
Even if the woman was talking a lot of nonsense, this was a public health representative who just scared the living hell out of a bunch of college students who now won't even TRY to get help based on the information she gave them.
Posted on January 17 at 9:23 p.m.
Just to throw in a couple points...
with the number of rape cases that go unreported, the likelihood of an abortion being specifically cited as a result of rape is rather low.
Some women do get pregnant as a result of natural, perfectly normal and healthy physical urges. This does not mean that they want to bear a child. It doesn't mean that they are "loose women", or immoral. I'm getting a mite sick of this "if they just kept their legs closed" argument. Sexuality is only for men now? I thought we were out of the dark ages.
Some women (*gasp*) do NOT want children. Individuality, including lifestyle preferences such as religion or sexuality, is a large part of what separates human beings from other mammals. The idea that they would be FORCED (should pro-life get their ultimate way) to undergo a pregnancy that might very well repulse and terrify them is akin to torture and enslavement to someone ELSE'S dogma, and could only cause emotional/psychological damage to the woman.
Abortion is not a pretty thing, and no one goes into the clinic overjoyed, planning on going out for ice cream or something after the procedure. However, instead of living in la-la land and pretending that abolishing the right to choice will somehow magically restore some sort of "good old days of family values", it might behoove us to look at reality.
The reality being that men and women end up in bed together, they have since the beginning of time, and they always will. Men, however, are able to walk away from the responsibility of pregnancy, both societally and by virtue of physiology. As such, I'd rather see a woman have the option of walking away, too. If you hadn't noticed, ladies.. single mothers are the most rapidly growing percentage of our population, and no one's sitting out there just waiting to take care of them. Wouldn't you rather have another baby you were REALLY able to take care of, rather than divide the resources that aren't even enough to take care of the one you already have?
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Posted on June 21 at 1:18 p.m.
love this...
"-Best general news story, third place — Adam Koob, “Hospital lays of 65”"
that Hospital was getting BUSY... oh god... LOL
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