It can be used for birth control, examinations, STD screenings and abortions:
For the first time, Planned Parenthood in Indiana is offering gift certificates. The organization said a big increase in calls and visits from newly unemployed and uninsured Hoosiers prompted what it calls the unusual, yet practical gift option.Yes, nothing celebrates the birth of our Savior more than giving an abortion in the name of a loved one. "I didn't know what to get you, honey so I sponsored a woman's abortion in your name." Why give money to the Salvation Army to feed and clothe the poor, when you can give it to Planned Parenthood so that they can maximize their profits (yeah, I know they're a nonprofit organization that makes millions of dollars and gets millions more in grants from the federal government)?"People are making really tough decisions about putting gas in their car and food on their table, so we know that many women especially put healthcare at the bottom of their list to do," said Chrystal Struben-Hall, Vice President of Planned Parenthood of Indiana.
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The organization hopes people might purchase the certificates, and then turn them back in for their patients who need reproductive healthcare, but can't pay for it.
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That is not the issue, ZZ. There is no scientific agreement that those cells are human, or alive. They cannot function without their mother. If my mother had aborted me, I suppose I would have been born to someone else. And the only reason I would blow my brains out anytime soon is if I had to deal with people like you on a daily basis.
But the Jews of the Holocaust were real, live people who had already been born. Who were exterminated in a pogrom of epic proportions that could never have happened without the full complicity of the Xian churches and their members - who now want to use that dead to make cheap political shots. So don't goddamned dare touch my dead.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Abortion is not a sin in Judaism. We will never side with the conservative Xians on that on. But stupidity is a sin.
"They cannot function without their mother"
So, the minute you have to move to a nursing home, you get a bullet to the brain because you can't function without outside help? Your definitions of humanity are ludicrously simplistic.
Plus, I don't have any evidence at all that your are really Jewish, so your silly straw man of prohibiting the word "Holocaust" bears no wait. I could say I was a black grandmother with a PHD in neuroscience if I wanted to.
Web arguments based on competely unverifiable personal data are rightfully rejected and mocked. Base your comments on something provable.
Base your comments on something provable. All we have is your conjecture (NEVER PROVEN) that a fetus is a human life created at conception to be protected under the constitution...
and that you're a racist anti-Semite, which you've proven more than well enough.
Just what I would expect from Xians.
Whatever you requested can not be complied with. My religion tells me that a fetus is not a human life until the head and shoulders emerge from the birth canal. I will abide by that definition.
"My religion tells me that a fetus is not a human life until the head and shoulders emerge from the birth canal" Stupid, arbitrary, and not in your Bible or mine. A cultural construct, nothing more. The DNA assumes it's unique identity at conception. There is no other logical point to assume the beginnig of life.
The idea that abortion is a not a sin in judaism is a sorry lie, the only reason modern halacha does not adress the issue is because the Rabbis have no balls.
Remember the adage, "to kill one man is to kill the entire world, because you kill all his descendents."
Sounds real nice in synagogue. An saying that is held to apply to theoretical unborn will apply to factual unborn.
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