How women are losing the hard-won right to choose (Christian right regards women as wombs)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | January 22, 2004 | Erica Jong

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Sometimes, restrictions on crushing babies' skulls and ripping off their limbs can be sooooo frustrating.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Hey, Erica, here is a list of medical conditions for which partial birth abortion is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother:

(Feel free to add to it.)

[Unam Sanctam]

Anti-Christian hate speech.

[madprof98]

By then abortion is not such a simple matter, and limiting it makes a mockery of the right to choose not to bear a genetically damaged child.

Ah, yes, spare us the "genetically damaged." This from the same crowd that boasts of their sponsorship of the Special Olympics!

[Moby Grape]

Well said.

Wes Clark can proclaim that a woman has a "right to choose" up to the moment of birth, and will be hailed by the writer of this article as compasionate and understanding of the plight of women, and yet she will label as extreme those who would attempt to curtail the crushing of skulls of a fully formed child.

[Essie]

In 18th-century England female felons condemned to be hanged could save themselves, at least for nine months, by becoming pregnant. It was considered wrong to kill a child for the sins of the mother. Modern American law has made it clear that a pregnant woman has a similar right to health and life if the developing foetus threatens it.


It is still wrong to kill the child for the sins of the mother. How sad that Ms. Jong doesn't see what's just in front of her. A woman does have rights; she has the right to be responsible.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

discover that they have lost the right to both abortion and contraception

Yeah, the prophlactic police are already starting to go into drugstores and bedrooms worldwide, removing all the condoms, diaphragms, IUDs, sponges, gels, spermicides, birth control pills, and morning after pills they can find. Soon, neither tubal litigation nor vasectomies will be legal. There will also be proscriptions against both the rhythm method and attempts to pull out before the job is done.

[tbpiper]

the right to choose not to bear a genetically damaged child

There is no such right.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

tubal litigation

That should be tubal ligation, unless you are suing the doctor for botching the job.

[thedugal]

Perhaps someone should remind these women libbers that half of the 44 million they have murdered have been women.

[unixfox]

They are unaware that a relentless and heartless campaign is being waged against their right to control their own bodies and lives.

If this is true, then why do we have laws that do not allow women to sell their bodies, ingest the drugs they want, smoke the tobacco they want, etc,etc,etc.

I mean, it IS their body, RIGHT?

[dfwgator]

Christian right regards women as wombs

It sure beats regarding babies as just a mass of tissue.

[New Perspective]

The headline should be"

How INNOCENT BABIES are losing the hard-won right to LIFE (Christian right regards women as wombs)

[americanSoul]

Ah, yes, spare us the "genetically damaged." This from the same crowd that boasts of their sponsorship of the Special Olympics!

An intellectual sniper kill. One shot, one kill! Very very good.

[Blood of Tyrants]

limiting it makes a mockery of the right to choose not to bear a genetically damaged child.

So it is okay to murder those who are determined to be "genetically defective"? Hitler considered the Jews to be inferior to the point of not being human. The KKK believes that blacks are "genetically defective".

[Steve_Seattle]

The chance of women losing the right to abortion (under almost any circumstances) or contraception is as slim as that of Al Sharpton being elected president. Slimmer, in fact. Erica is nuts.

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I've worked for 23 years at a summer camp for handicapped kids. Almost all of the people who work there with me are liberals.

At a Christmas party this year, some fellow oldtimers were talking about how twenty years ago, the camper population was about 90% Downs Syndrome kids. Now, there are almost none at camp.

I pointed out that all the Downs Syndrome kids are aborted now. They looked at me like I just told them the sky was made of marshmallow. I guess they never thought about it before, and the idea that all those potential campers (the same types of kids they've loved working with over the years) have been slaughtered for "women's rights" was a little too much to think about.

"I think alot of Downs Syndrome kids go to other programs now," one of them lamely offered. "Not really," I said, and walked away to get a beer.

[New Perspective]

I agree with you.

By then abortion is not such a simple matter, and limiting it makes a mockery of the right to choose not to bear a genetically damaged child.

I have not met one person who has had a child with abnormal genetics who wanted to about the fetus when they had the level 2 ultrasound. Everyone single one said they would not abort when they found out at 20 weeks along. We even had a freind who had genetically damaged baby, all organs developed outside of the abdominal cavity. She could of aborted it, knowing that it would die within minutes of being born after going the full term. She opted to carry it , let it be born, then prayed in the operating room with it as God chose to take it's soul back to him.

That is a poor excuse for a full term killing.

I believe I am qualified to speak on this matter, being the father of a 2 month old with Down syndrome. Let me tell any pro-abortion nazi, look into his eyes and tell me you are willing to kill him.

[americanSoul]

Ah, yes, spare us the "genetically damaged." This from the same crowd that boasts of their sponsorship of the Special Olympics!

I forgot to add: the same crowd that is against capital punishment, in this age of DNA virtual certainty, for even the most vicious of murderers!

[KarlInOhio]

the right to choose not to bear a genetically damaged child

Didn't Marget Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, consider children who were "too brown" genetically damaged?