Posted on 08/29/2004 11:51:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
=== And how do you know that you know more than what other people know?
Anyone who's taken the time to actually READ one of these so-called "parental consent" bills probably Knows more of the sad truth of the matter than 95% of the self-styled Pro-Lifers out there.
=== allowing them "hope" via "wins" which are heavy on symbol but light on substance may not be the ticket.
To be perfectly clear ... I think it's just this sort of thing which causes folks to relax and believe that all is well in hand.
Much like folks were delighted by the "fall of communism" and have readily embraced the former Soviets since.
=== It's what the Nazi's tried to create - the MASTER RACE!
Texas -- particularly the Houston-area hospitals -- also leads the nation (with the exception of Oregon perhaps) -- in Nazi-style futile care protocols ... the tracks on which this nation's headlong rush to euthanasia will run.
I believe that he sometimes helps us to stem the tides of evil and destruction we wreak upon ourselves, not that he wreaks it upon us, as in the old testmant.
The same kind of disagreement regarding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, about which I recall you were in great disagreement with people on this forum.
Res ipsa loquitur, Tough Stough.
The only disagreement comes in whether there are those who like to "give folks hope" and lie through their teeth in the press (like the Texas NRLC Legislative Director who confirmed as much to me at our 3-hour lunch in DC one day) or those -- like me -- who scream bloody murder at the way so many Useful Idiots are encouraged to throw their hats in the air and scream "Don't mess with Texas" as the courts proceed to use the legislation to set a precedent of court-ordered minor abortions without NOTIFICATION, much less consent.
A fetus is a person.
But my guess is some stillbirths are not necessarily caused by negligent medical care?
That's why the Terri Schiavo case is so important to
THEM and Dr. Death!
I have had plenty of negative experiences with Democrats, Republicans, so-called consevatives, the pro-life movement, the courts and judges, to last a lifetime.
Most of us have a good understanding of the odds.
I have also met enough people who seem to wrongly think because their opinion is the most negative, it is also the most correct. That isn't always the case.
No. /sarcasm/
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