So, Obama is allowing the average citizen to submit questions about his policies and then allowing us to vote for the ones we like. Justin Taylor submitted this question:
Would you consider rescinding your promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Acts, given your desire to reduce abortions and to seek common ground, and in light of the fact that it would invalidate every measure and law intended to reduce abortions?But the abortion zealots have flagged it as inappropriate (they can't stand free speech). You can still vote for the other similarly worded questions(until the abortion zealots get to it -- I guess that's probably some of you guys, huh?). I thought this one was pretty good as well:
"Will you still follow through with your promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, even though Maryland has passed similar legislation and their abortion rates have risen significantly compared to their prior numbers and the rest of the nation?"You have to sign up but it's worth it. Let your voice be heard (if anyone's listening and it's not a gimmick to get our email addresses so he can send us appeals for donations :-). I was thinking about asking him how building roads would help the economy. Did he intend to put those collecting unemployment checks to work digging ditches?
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Blastocysts have rights? Enumerated where? If that's the case, can other vestigial parts of a person's body have rights? Why does no one picket for the tonsils of the world, or the apendices?
Of course, on a long enough timeline, a blastocyst does become a baby, but it's not a person before it's a fetus.
I challenge any layperson to look at a clump of undifferentiated blastocyst cells and tell me the difference between a clump of another type of cells.
They're cells. Later they become fetuses, and even later still they are born and become people.
There are living breathing people right now that pro-life "activists" ignore in favor of a clump of cells they couldn't pick out in a lineup.
Y'all people have "lost your natural minds," as my lovely southern grandmother would have said.
Obama never hid his stance on abortion. Obama was elected President by people that decided they could accept his stance on abortion. Over 60% of Americans believe abortion should be legal.
The people that hid their stance on abortion was Ronald Reagan, George W Bush, and John McCain. All three flip-flopped to oppose abortion. Neither Reagan nor Bush made abortion illegal as promised. Both had a Republican controlled Congress. How about complaining to the Republicans in Congress for not taking action to make abortion illegal?
How about asking John McCain to submit a bill to make abortion illegal?
Your Name said-- "Blastocysts have rights? Enumerated where? If that's the case, can other vestigial parts of a person's body have rights? Why does no one picket for the tonsils of the world, or the apendices?"
Just because a child is in an early stage of development & the growing body is in an early stage of cells you call Blastocysts does not mean that the cells at that stage of growth is not a human. True enough it is a an incomplete human, but even after a child has been born & lived for 6 months or a year the new baby is still growing & developing. Why is it OK to kill the group of cells at an earlier time but not after the child is born? If you will think for a bit, all of us are groups of cells.
The rest of the quote deals with human body parts, not the whole human body. Do not ""Blastocysts" represent the whole body at a particular stage of growth?
Also note that a ferted human egg always turns into a human being. It is a process. Why is it OK to stop the life process in the womb?
If people would "keep it their pants" until a man & woman marry, there would not be much of an abortion problem. Most men like abortion because killing the child gets them off the hook for raising what they have sired. Abortion is a money & responsibility saving device. This is wrong.
It is way past time to grow up & get real regarding sex. The sex revolution is a dismal failure. The SR has given us millions of deaths from STD's & aborted children. God knew what He was talking about when He gave His prohibitions against sex out side of man & woman marriage.
SamFox
Everyone can have their beliefs. I know nothing I could ever say would sway for or against.
However, I do believe if you are that strongly pro-choice that you want abortion to be fully illegal, then I hope you're in the process or have already adopted a child, or are a foster parent.
You cannot say "the child has a right to live, oh these millions of children have to live!" and then forget they are existing with people who either do not want them or cannot care for them - that once they are born, they continue to grow up in this world.
I don't see how someone can cry out that it is genocide (and actually mean the word genocide, with all it portends), and then not be offering to take such a child into their home. And if they are going to spout religion - then I hope they remember Jesus's words about "whatever you do for the least of my people, that you do unto me."
(And, yes, I realize that the quote can also be used against the Pro-Choice movement. However, just for a change, instead of standing against something, saying "No, you can't do that", how about you say..."I believe so strongly that I am willing to sacrifice and give of myself"?)
the freedom of choice act is not about choice, it's about tyrrany. it forces doctors to perform abortions who are morally opposed. pro-choice folks, what about the choice of the doctors? how would you like it if the government forced you to do something that you found morally reprehensible?
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