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[wideawake]

(1) Why does Murder Incorporated receive public funding in the first place?

(2) Where does this public funding come from? The federal government? The states? Counties and municipalities? If local governments, which ones?

(3) What can be done to defund this criminal organization?

[Christian4Bush]

They must be very proud...(the sad part is that they probably are)

As I've said before, liberals and leftists are against the death penalty, except when it concerns the unborn child

[narby]

That would be enough voters in Ohio to have elected WhatsHisName ... Kerry.

[nj26]

Anybody seen good stats on the abortion rate? I've seen some incomplete data suggesting that it has risen in the past few years.

We can't afford to put a pro-choice nominee on the ticket in 2008. And it is good to have posts like this, to remind us where are party should be on this issue: PRO-LIFE.

[UnklGene]

[vpintheak]

Despite Planned Parenthood's claim that it offers mainly counseling and contraceptives, the report reveals the organization took in an estimated $104 million from its surgical abortion business, accounting for over one-third of its $302.6 million clinic income.

Can anyone tell me that they aren't in it for the money. They are whores for the dollars and murdering is their business. I am a business student, but an ethical one. The world will pay for this evil.

[American Vet Repairman]

America will be judged for this whole mess. It won't be pretty.

[Indie]

It is, by the way, within the power of the President to end legal abortion tomorrow, as I would do my first day in office. Don't let alleged "pro-life" Presidents tell you differently. The President has an obligation under Article IV, §4 to ensure to each member State that it will be republican in form of government. Any action that is not republican in form will be utterly resisted to the grave if necessary under a Peroutka Presidency. Abortion was made "legal" (more correctly, the prosecution of abortion was made illegal) in these United States by judicial fiat, which is anti-republican in form and in violation of the Separation of Powers and Article I, §1 of the Constitution vesting all legislative power of the Federal Government in the Congress. In an American form of government, "all laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." Marbury v. Madison. Most certainly, anti-Constitutional court decisions are not binding.

Thus, under my presidency, Roe v. Wade will not be enforced, and the member states of the Union could again open their criminal codes and begin the prosecution of the doctors and parents who would contract for the murder of an unborn child without fear of reprisal from the Chief Executive.
--Michael Peroutka

Yeah the election's over, but is he right? Any constitutional legal scholars out there?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Since Roe V Wade, PP has made half a billion dollars, and been instrumental in the surgical deaths of 3.5 million people.

Oh, some might call them fetuses, but they were people.

And not only are the children killed, but the ripples go on from there.

Anger from those who have gone through the procedure. Hurt. Grief not allowed by the pc point of view, but that still exists.

Some women find healing. Some look for justification.

"I'm not so sure that abortion rights advocates are primarily concerned about the political consequences." writes Emily at After Abortion. "My sense is that those abortion rights advocates who are post-abortive are primarily upset because of the implicit moral judgment on their past choices. 43% of American women have had one or more abortions by the time their reproductive years end. I would guess that the percentage is higher among abortion rights activists. If I were in those shoes, and I heard a leading Democrat say "we don't like abortion", I'd take this personally."

Yet for all their angst and attitude about what was done as a good choice, nothing to be squeamish over, most of America sees this as a bad thing.

According to a recent nationwide survey of 1,001 Americans conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide, 61 percent felt that "abortion is almost always a bad thing for a woman." In contrast, 23 percent stated is "almost always a good thing." The Wirthlin poll coincides with the results of another survey conducted by the Elliott Institute in December 2002, which found that 52 percent thought abortion makes women's lives worse, whereas only 16 percent believed it makes women's live better

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Perhaps it's not just the knowledge that each one of these events costs a life. Perhaps it's seeing what it has done to the mothers (yes, and fathers, too) who have made these decisions and what happens to them after the event that help shape the viewpoint. All the might have beens that can never be reclaimed, because a life was taken to make sure it would never become reality. It takes its psychic toll on life, like all decisions do, but this is one where finding justification for actions by continuing an outlook pays a very high price.

I heard today that 3/4ths of the presidents elected since Roe v. Wade have been pro-life. There are political costs. Loss of potential voters, both from the attrition of not being here, and also from those who won't vote for a good candidate who clings to the pro-abortion party line. There are recovery issues, like denying that women can have post abortion depression. There are psychic issues, like dealing with the fact that a woman in a time of crisis did something that so many people find not only distasteful, but potentially evil, or denying late trimester D&C abortions pain relief, because that would acknowledge their humanness.

Like many people, I feel abortion is a wrong that hurts, hurts the innocent, but also hurts the mother. It causes such pain and loss because like a pebble cast into water, it ripples out over the months and years with effects.

This is why choosing life matters. Choosing life doesn't mean no abortion, although that's part of it. It means respect for life, the life of a person in a crisis, the life of a person who perhaps made a decision that will take healing, love and care. Life is a gift, not a container for anger of wrongs perceived, but of pontential and joy and hope and wisdom and care to be passed down from the older to the younger, like a great glowing string of pearls.

All the things we do that are anti-life, abortion, hate, anger, murder, the traditional great sins, turning our backs on others, muddies that string of pearls, dampens its glow, and makes it less.

[Lizavetta]

If only they'd spend as much time promoting pregnancy preventing procedures (i.e. the Pill, Depro Provera, IUDs, etc.) as they spend promoting pregnancy ending procedures.

But then, they're in it for the money and you can charge more for surgery than you can for pills.