Posted on 04/19/2007 11:06:38 AM PDT by redstates4ever
"I'm incredibly bitter today. And disgusted. What the Supreme Court did today is nothing short of repugnant. I can't say that I'm exactly surprised that a group of conservative men chose to expand federal powers and sanction torture for women today by declaring the ban on late term abortions that President Bush signed in 1993 does not violate the Constitution.
No, not surprised that people who will never have any idea of what it means to be forced to choose between your own life or that of the fetus you're carrying would make such an emotional and irrational decision. None of these men will ever be forced to carry a fetus against their will. This decision will never impact them at all - all their wives, daughters, and mistresses are well off enough that they can fly to a more humane country if something unforeseen and awful happens during their pregnancies. It's the normal, every day women who will suffer. And what do they care? They got to make their point.
Does my life mean so little? Do the Supreme Court justices really think they have such vast medical expertise and personal knowledge of my health and personal life that they - not my doctor and not me - should be making my medical decisions? I realize that at the time the Constitution was written, women didn't really have any rights - but do they really think putting my health on the level of livestock is really the way to go?
Less than 2% of abortions occur after 21 weeks. Women do not run around getting knocked up willy nilly for the sheer pleasure of having invasive and painful surgeries, and they especially do not look forward to have to make a choice between getting chemo for cancer or sacrificing their lives for a healthy baby. Most men that I know do not want to face fatherhood alone - they do not want children enough to let their wives die for it. They do not look forward to the idea of letting the kid visit mommy in the graveyard.
It kills me - kills me - that pro-forced childbirth advocates are so happy about this! Do they think they've just saved countless lives? Do they honestly and truly think that this decision will stop late term abortions from happening? I know, I know, they don't give a rat's ass about the reality of the situation - just their f**ked up, rose-colored glasses worldview. "
(my edit on the swear word in the last sentence)
No doubt.
“I am bitter, hear my screed.”
Which makes this day exactly like every other day in her life.
All I can say to her is “Lady, lets think about the kind of women that want abortions.”
Reminds me of that pic of Cho holding the run to his own head, except she uses an oldschool abortion tool!
lol!!! Good one!!!!!!
That’s what I’ve asked my lib, OB nurse sister...if the mother’s life is in jeopardy and the pregnancy needs to be ternimated, why not just deliver the baby...either by section or vaginally (whichever is safer for mom and/or baby)? Why murder the infant?
Of course, depending on the age of the baby, it may or not fare well, but babies are surviving at younger gestational ages than ever before.
Our own loser Governor, Granholm, vetoed legislation in our state because it “didn’t provide a provision for the life of the mother”. But doesn’t delivery of a live baby provide this just as well as a murdered one?
Lib-sister just looked at me and shrugged.
Only a truly evil person could be so self centered as to make this statement in the same article that she rants about supporting procedures that murder unborn children and extracts them from the mother's womb as if they are nothing more than cancerous tissue. Truly evil.
Our current President has a daddy by the same name who was in office in 1993...
(I’m not sure what she’s specifically referring to, my only point is there was a Bush in office in 93)
"How sex selection in favor of boys is implicated in the partial birth abortions of baby girls."
How's that for a feminist contradiction?
I’m going to use that!
“I’m sure you can find a medical need to abort a fetus/baby in the 6th/7th month.”
Probably the examples most likely to be brought up would be discovery of cancer - or heart trouble - or blood pressure trouble - some type of infection maybe.
The definition of PBA is pretty specific.
Regardless - premature fetuses are surviving earlier and earlier.
When you are talking 6th 7th month - you are talking viable.
So the question remains...how is the crushing of the skull “saving” the life of the mother as opposed to delivering the head intact and then treating the baby like the human being it is?
Sure...chances are slim for the premature infant - but odds are much better than if the brains were sucked out.
Ah, I’d hate to point out the flaw in your rant for fear that if I anger you, you may startle and stampede, but....
If your life is in jeopardy, why not induce labor, have the BABY and just NOT KILL HIM OR HER when they come out? Or is that just simpleton thinking on my part?
RK, you nailed it exactly!
you lib sister doesn’t have an answer because there is no answer.
Meanwhile Rosie told everyone today on The View that this procedure is ONLY done in emergency to safe the life of the mother.
hooh boy.
Wasn’t Clinton in office in 1993? Or is this shrieking harpie claiming that Bush 41 signed something in 1993 before he left office?
Only for 19 days.
That pic of Mommy Dearest was great.
Who is this lady? Where can I send a demoralizing letter?
Thanks.
For Heaven’s sake, go throw yourself off a bridge, lady.
Uhhh, Bill Clinton was in office in 1993.
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