So, pro-life Obamaicans, which is better for our pro-life position: a president who doesn't talk about abortion or pro-life issues but wouldn't promote it or be an advocate for it either, or someone who has such a low view of life that he calls a baby, "punishment" and would make an apologetic for it using his own daughters?
I think it's clear that Obama isn't post-partisan on the abortion issue, he is decidedly pro-choice.
Nuance all you want, babe! The truth usually comes out.
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Besides - what are y'all worried about anyway?
Are anyof you going to feed those approximately 1.8 million unwanted children per year? Are any of you going to raise the results of a botched abortion, with all of the medical funding that would require?
Who among you is ready to take that on without raising taxes to do so?
Personally, I am glad both Obama and Clinton are pro-choice. No one has the right to tell a woman she can't have an abortion if she needs one. (she decides if she needs one, no one else). The anti-abortion people don't have to have one. Do the anti-abortion people really think that reversing Roe V. Wade will stop abortions? Women will either leave the country for one (but not all can afford that), or go to a hack with a suit case full of equipment, or get out the trusty wire coat hanger and try to do it themselves. Women had known how to abort unwanted pregnancies for centuries. Fortunately in this country it is legal, thus offering safe terminations. I agree with Obama, I wouldn't want a child who gets pregnant to have to carry to term. There are already too many girl children with children, who BTW, they can't feed or take care of. As was mentioned above, the late term abortions are IMO only performed under certain circumstances. Those decisions made by patient and doctor...no one else. (as should be any medical procedure).
So I'm glad Obama made his position clear...and if he is the Democratic candidate,he's got my vote, for that a lot of other reasons. He also made clear that he is teaching his girls morals and responsibility, but so have many other parents. Hormones take over and there is a pregnancy. It happens. The girl should be able to have an abortion safely and privately.
"Are any of you going to feed those approximately 1.8 million unwanted children per year? Are any of you going to raise the results of a botched abortion, with all of the medical funding that would require?
Who among you is ready to take that on without raising taxes to do so?"
Right on meh. That is precisely the issue that makes the "pro-life" position window dressing for what it really is: anti-abortion. Pro-life republicans are so freakish about social programs that these simply do not come into play to leverage the position. This is why the position is implausible.
A Baby is not a punishment. A baby is a blessing. If you are stupid enough to get pregnant, when you do not want or cant afford to care for a child then dont have sex or wear a condom while on birth control and make sure the man pulls out! An innocent child should not be killed because its parents were selfish. That baby is being punished, NOT the parents! Its considered murder to kill a child but If you kill an unwanted pregnancy its suppose to be ok? How is that different or fair? Be responsible people, dont kill another life because you are immature and irresponsible and ignorant! Obama should have been aborted because he will be punishing us if he becomes president!
i am a woman, and I believe a woman has the right to choose whether or not she has a baby, but she makes that decision BEFORE deciding to have sex...21% of women have had an abortion,70% of women who've had abortions didnt use ANY form of protection, and 43% of women getting abortions have had AT LEAST one before so all the feminists out there crying out that women are strong need to start living up to that claim and be responsible and strong enough to use protection....that would reduce unwanted pregnancies by a lot and then those 30 percent will be a blessing to all the parents seeking adoption....accidents happen, i have a friend who not only had a condom break but the morning after pill failed as well, and i see her in therapy years after because of the horrid experience and the regret she feels....if women want to claim to be strong, be strong enough to accept the situation, be strong enough to take the difficult path...we are teaching our children how to find the easy way out, making unprotected and irresponsible sex more appealing cuz it can always be "taken care of"...stop fooling yourselves that an unborn baby is not a person, at what point in the pregnancy does a blob of cells become a person? oh today one more cell divided so its a person? that makes no sense, but its certainly EASIER to think its just a blob of cells...own up to the consequences of your actions, and you will probably find that the baby was not a punishment and when you look into your babys eyes be glad that you didnt kill it...when was the last time you heard someone say "i wish i never had my son or daughter"??? cuz that would be MESSED UP!
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