[Sub-Driver]

i think she's smoking something.....

Anyway pls call Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616 and let Miss Pelosi know our thoughts......

[Archon of the East]

Sure now the Dimwits want states rights, selectively of course.

[KoRn]

Probably the only thing in the world I would agree with her on.

And no I'm not "Smoking Something".

[claudiustg]

So now she's a state's righter...

[thoughtomator]

Even a stopped clock...

[rhombus]

I agree. But I don't for a second really think she even cares. The rats are so desperate for an issue, they'll try anything... afterall it's not like supporting weed smoking is a bold move where she comes from.

[TigersEye]

Pelosi: Use of Medicinal Marijuana Should Be Left to States

So should abortion.

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Total Abortions since 1973

46,023,191

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I can't bring myself to cheer for Nancy Lugosi, so how about rooting for the legislation's sponsor: Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)?

[caisson71]

I care less about what Pelosi says than what she does. Her opinions are predictable, her politics are opposit and her credibility is crap. Disgusting is too complimentary for her.

[wagglebee]

For once, she's right.

[Alia]

Sounds fine to me, Mz. Pelosi. Why don't you and the CA Dems simply halt all funds incoming from the Feds and return all funds covering welfare, education, medical/medicare, traffic, foody subsidies, WIC, HHD to the Feds. THEN you can have legal pot in CA.

[Ramonan]

Marijuana= Should

Sodomy=should not

[Popman]

Hell must have froze over

I agree with her

[America_Right]

1st, Last, and Only time I will agree with her. Yech...

[ol' hoghead]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

For the rats who don't recognize these words, they are the tenth amendment, Ms. Pelosi. You obstructionist rats should use it to help overrule the Supreme Court ruling Willard v Filburn, 317 U. S. 111 (1942). That case is what the USSC used to deny Cali's law and extend the gov't expand it's power unconstitutionally.

[R W Reactionairy]

Pelosi? I knew that if I lived long enough I would agree with her on some issue and it finally happened. Right answer -- actual rational concepts ... but a states rights argument from that socialist?

I do side with Justices Thomas [bravo], Rehnquist and O'Connor and ... [yikes] Pelosi on this one.

Interstate commerce isn't every conceivable item that might somehow enter the stream of commerce or cause some other widget not to be enter the steam of interstate commerce. Either the Constitution has a meaning or it doesn't. Scalia and the liberal block voted to "preserve" Federal powers that by the Tenth Amendment do not exist.

[philman_36]

This is a states' rights issue.
Simply amazing. I didn't know Democrats recognized such things. They have been so pro "centralized government" for so many years I'm actually dumbfounded. And from Pelosi of all people.

[A CA Guy]

This is a staple of the far left, love of illegal drugs.

If you read the enemy over at DU now and then or the few junkies that post on FR, you'd see this is classic stuff and not unexpected. Maybe she is going after the libertarian vote again.

[A CA Guy]

Here's a link to the far left's love and defense of illegal drugs.
Autie Pinko! LOL

http://www.democraticunderground.com/auntie/02/68.html

[longtermmemmory]

If pelosi were serious she would simply remove the word medical and say "recreational".

[jimfree]

I'm willing to give her that one. If states rights apply to marijuana, then states rights apply to abortion, labor unions, marriage, and everything else save the enumerated powers of the Congress and Administration. I'm in on that; what say you Leader Pelosi?