I would be hard-pressed to find a person who said they thought abortion was GREAT.
It's a very profitable endeavor. Ask anyone with a Planned Barrenhood franchise.
Posted on 11/14/2006 1:51:18 PM PST by DCBandita
The announcement by McCain, who has put together campaign organizations in many of the states with early nominating contests, was widely expected. The intentions of Giuliani, who has been less active in early organizing, had been less clear.
Giuliani's campaign team said the committee was simply an opening move designed to keep his options open, with a final decision still to come.
"This filing affords him the opportunity to raise money and put together an organization to assist him in making his decision," Giuliani adviser Anthony Carbonetti said.
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That's right. Actual, living people. Not cells. And I suppose in your world one view negates the other. How... big of you.
It's people like you, frankly, who solidify my resolve to fight against giving YOU dominion over my decision-making.
You posted here.
You told who you are.
It's not just your understanding of life, everything you say reeks of insipidity.
It's sad to see someone as young as you intellectually frozen.
But it's not my problem. Good night.
And at the end of the day, as a man, I wish I had "reproductive rights".
I think we're far from helpless when it comes to the ability to project military might in other locations.
After all, we are now only a stone's throw from Iran and Syria, and certainly within missile and bomb range of N. Korea. I don't think we'd ever invade N. Korea in any event, or at least not until a long bombing campaign had attrited their ability to do much more than throw spears.
And the Bosnian "adventure", as you put it, had no bearing on any national interest of ours. In fact, it went entirely against our national interest in that we've been arming the Islamists there and helping wipe out the Christians. I really don't think it's the Christians who've been killing Americans around the globe for the last 30 years.
You're surely entitled to your opinion. And thanks again for thinking I'm "young".
You do't consider prior to 90 days fetuses people. Okie doke. On what premise? Do you have sources, other than your own feelings?
I can assume that there are people who don't consider newborn babies people...the guy at Princeton comes to mind. Should we kill new born babies because there are pepople who think that way?
Actual living people ARE cells.
...who solidify my resolve to fight against giving YOU dominion...
I don't want any dominion over you. It would be worthless. Minds like yours find a way to kill whether it's illegal or not.
That's next.
"That type of blanket categorization blinds you to compromise."
Let's talk about euthanizing the severely handicapped and terminally ill, to see where we can find the right compromise line.
Considered mainly on my feelings coupled with the fact that a fetus of that age can't exist outside the womb. Notwithstanding the science of a pre-90-day fetus, my feelings are an appropriate way to judge as I also see it as an issue of morality not legality.
Look. I'm tired of the "Pro-abortion" meme. I had a friend growing up who was pro-life and found herself with an unwanted pregnancy at a young age. I would NEVER suggest to her that abortion was an option because I understood and respected her beliefs. The best I could do for her was be there for her through her pregnancy and offer whatever assistance I had at my disposal to be her friend, hold her hand, and help her.
I would never want a person who didn't want an abortion to have one. So WHY - if my moral matrix says that abortion is NOT murder and a matter of personal choice up to a certain time, would anyone tell me that I couldn't have one?
I would be hard-pressed to find a person who said they thought abortion was GREAT. So given that, the commonality is a desire to REDUCE abortions. I don't understand why we can't work to making it virtually obsolete rather than fight about it's being right and wrong while it continues, legal or not!
Maybe she doesn't consider the severely handicapped or mentally ill to be human. Hmmm?
"Who speaks for the unborn?"
We do.
Which is why we have no choice but to "impose our values" on others on the topic.
They can't be persuaded, and we can't let the babies be killed.
If a mentally competent person who was severaly handicapped or terminally ill CHOSE to have themselves euthanized, I'd be all for it. It's more of that "dominion over myself and my body thing".
I would be hard-pressed to find a person who said they thought abortion was GREAT.
It's a very profitable endeavor. Ask anyone with a Planned Barrenhood franchise.
We had a Federally mandated waiting period during the 90s. It had no recordable effect on crime.
As a Christian, I don't feel a hell of a lot safer for overthrowing a regime that was mostly concerned with killing Saddam's Muslim co-religionsists.
The fact is that for all your talk of missile ranges we have been reduced to currying favor with Russia and China in order to achieve minimal restraints on Iran and North Korea.
(By the way, while I didn't support Clinton's Balkan adventures, you have a wild imagination if you think Islamists killed a tenth as many Christians as Islamists were killed by Christians there. Serbia will forever be stained by its butchery.)
I can agree there. There was no conservative legislation in DC since W decided to team up with the likes of Ted "the Swimmer" Kennedy and others on NCLB and the vast Medicare expansion. However, constitutionally - legislation comes out of Congress, not the White House.
Conservatives and limited government Republicans don't see what you call the "economic divide" as any business of politicians.
When I graduated college I owned a 5 yo car and nothing else. Today, after years of hard work, I am a successful small business owner. You Dems want to think that somehow it was just the luck of the draw. The reason for that is that those who are wealthy in your party either inherited their wealth (Kennedy), married it (Pelosi, Kerry), or are using their to take away others' wealth (Soros, Gates, Buffet, Turner). Whereas, Republicans (the conservative type) know that much wealth is self-made and that if you put in the effort, you should be rewarded.
We did get tax cuts for all, however, leading to this booming economy. Give Bush a lot of credit for that one. If left up to your party we'd still be bumping along the bottom. Remember, people who don't pay taxes can't get a tax cut.
Abortion has nothing to do with religion. It's a dehumanization issue, just like slavery was.
When I graduated college I lived in my car as I tried to make my way. So we have that sort of in common.
I'm not opposed to all of the tax cut. But I'd definitely repeal the cuts for the upper 2% as well as repeal the capital gains tax cut. Service on the national debt is yet again growing to be the single biggest non-investment expenditure by government. Just as living your life on credit cards doesn't make sense, neither does excessive debt carried by the government. Given that we are spending what we are on the war, you can't reduce that debt without gaining additional revenue by repealing parts of the tax cuts.
The economic divide is real. We are at a 0% savings rate as a nation. The proportion of those who live paycheck-to-paycheck has grown. The proportion of those who are underemployed has grown. The proportion without health care has grown. Bankrupticies have grown. Foreclosures are beginning to grow. And this isn't the investment class with these problems - it's the working middle class who are a trip to the doctor's away from being in serious trouble. This will have a cost, and it's better to avoid it rather than incur it.
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