ABORTION.......

Sure!

Make it sound like you are some kind of gentleman...and only landed one kick!

We both know the truth!

How many here have always wanted to slap Frank repeadly while yelling "Wake up...Wake up, damnit!" I got to do that last night.

Whew! I thought that I had a decent command of the English language, and communicated rather well. Apparently, if some people don't agree with me, they divine some arcane postulates, as they go along.

Another thought. If one looks at any backward society, one of the overriding concerns of that society is the regulation and repression of women, especially in the area of reproductive autonomy. It is the old patriarchial system, where a society literally keeps its women barefoot, pregnant, and subservient to the whims of the male.

Whether a woman is obliged to wear clothing that hides their entire body, so that a man might not be "tempted", the barbarity of clitoridectomy, the practice of "honor killings", women sold into sexual slavery, or the inability of a woman to make a choice over what she can or cannot do with her own body, even the strictures that some religions have over birth control, it is all part of the same phenomenon.

The difference is only a matter of degree.

Am I reading this right? So the whole abortion thing is a matter of a woman's power over man? Women's repression? Is this the real reason that women have abortions?

Whew! I thought that I had a decent command of the English language, and communicated rather well. Apparently, if some people don't agree with me, they divine some arcane postulates, as they go along.

Abortion is a kind of genocide.

Planned Parenthood is a big supporter of abortion rights, but don't forget Planned Parenthood's founder Martha Sanger wrote that she favored birth control and sterilization to get rid of the poor and undesirables. You can read about this in her Malthusian Population Doctrine and in the Birth Control Review- 10/1926. (The following was taken from a letter to the editor) "The next time you hear someone bragging that Sanger's Planned Parenthood provides birth control and abortion to the poor, remember this, it does so not out of any love for the poor, but because it was founded on a doctrine that holds the poor in such contempt that it hates to see them reproduce."

Many women I know who support the right to an abortion do so out of a compassion they feel towards those women whose pregnancies may present a hardship for them. I prefer not to get into arguments over that. I understand their reasoning, but I hope they can at least see beyond the euphamisms for what abortion really is. I choose life.

Rush Limbaugh said he was against abortion because it "cheapens life".

He was once confronted by a pro-abortion advocate who told him that abortion was necessary to prevent a child who is terminally ill or deformed from suffering. Mr. Limbaugh told that person that life is full of suffering. Everyone suffers, we can't avoid it. If we justify abortion to avoid suffering then why should anyone bother being born at all? Life can be hard sometimes. Choosing life can mean hardship.

Designer families are possible in the U.S. With abortion people can pick and choose when to have their kids, decide on how their ages will be spaced and can rid themselves of unwanted and imperfect children by early prenatal detection of mental and physical defects. I read an article in the paper where scientists were claiming that in a few years there will be a "cure" for cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases. This will be accomplished by the in-vitro fertilization of the egg so that the genetic make-up can be examined and any imperfect embryos can be discarded down the sink drain. Is this a "cure"? It sounds like genocide. Imperfect people would be denied the right to be born. It's a dilemma. Given the choice between having a healthy child or an unhealthy one with genetic defects how many are going to pick the unhealthy one? I'll tell you one thing for sure, this isn't a "cure" for these diseases.

Here are some more reasons pro-abortionists have said we need abortion. We need abortion to reduce the number of babies born with drug addictions and A.I.D.S.. They say we need abortion for the poor to keep the number of babies born on welfare down so that our overburdened welfare system doesn't become more strained. They feel abortion is the answer, the "cure", for these problems.

A few years ago I watched a documentary about an abortion clinic in India . India has a problem with overpopulation and poor. In India a man has greater value than a woman. It has something to do with their religion I believe. I forget exactly how many abortions were performed at that clinic- one hundred? two hundred?, yet I was shocked to hear that only one of those abortions was performed on a male fetus. Genocide. Women are expenable because they aren't valuable. If the family was poor and couldn't afford a lot of children and the child was female then it was the most apt to be aborted.

When we make exceptions for killing it puts everyone at risk. What is to prevent someone from making you or your kind an exception?

Women have abortions for numerous reasons. If one boils it all down to one general reason, it is:

She does not want to carry the pregnancy to term.

Whether the particular reason for the abortion is rational, logical, well thought out, or immature and frivolous, the bottom line is that it is the woman's body, and, IMO, as long as the product of the conception is not a legal person, she has a perfect right to do with it as she wishes.

So if abortion was illegal, and the unborn had legal protection and status as a person, what would be your position then?

God does not and has not changed the law.

And, just where would you be today, if your mother had decided not to have you? You wouldn't be here arguing to make it okay for other children to be aborted. So, you got a chance at life, why try to take that away from others?