Posted on 03/01/2005 7:09:47 PM PST by Rakkasan1
Sue Rockne was a fighter.
At the Minnesota state Capitol, she fought for women's rights, abortion access and safety for battered women. As a Democratic activist, she fought for and with the party and served as a 12-year Democratic National Committee member and five-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
And for 13 years she fought leukemia, a cancer that kills many of its victims quickly. She challenged it with the aid of a little red scooter that zoomed her around the Capitol halls and helped her travel across all seven continents in the past decade.
On Saturday, she succumbed to complications from the disease. She was 70.
"She went fast, which is a blessing for her," said her daughter, Lauri Rockne of St. Paul.
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With millions of 'the least of these' watching.
In the vast majority of cases, our laws say that murder applies to human beings who have been born and are functioning on their own. There are exceptions to this when the term of pregnancy is almost complete and it is clear that the intention of the woman was to give birth.
Also, as I stated in another post, if you truly believe that allowing a woman to decide regarding her own pregnancy is equivalent to murder, you should be preparing for another civil war where millions of mature, functioning human beings would be killed.
Try suggesting your pregnant spouse live in Ohio without a house, in the wintertime. See what she says to you about thinking.
They're not in favor of always killing children, they want to leave it up to the mother. The mother decides when to kill and when to keep. Get it? It's not a 100% kill rate.
Well personally, I don't agree with wife-beating, but the government has no business telling other men how to run their families.
WARNING! Dissenting views are not tolerated on abortion threads. Strict adherence to the "all pregnancies are a gift from God" mantra is compulsory. Differences of opinion will not be accepted.
Why?
Correct, or didn't you read the part about this being a "conservative" news forum on the way in?
Cosmic justice?
The fact that you included 'developed' and 'productive' says lots about you. Does that somehow make the life more valuable? Don't tell me -- you're the type who doesn't mind offing mentally handicapped and old people since they're not 'developed' or 'productive'.
I believe people like him refer to them as "useless eaters" if my memory serves me correctly.
Semper fi, Bud.
good read.
thanks, Bruce.
In 30-some years since Roe v. Wade, the dwindling numbers of Democrats have lost control of the House and Senate (which they held by lopsided margins back then), the presidency, the Supreme Court, state governments, their minds, their bladders and their bowels.
Your pap misses the point--that countless numbers of the unborn didn't get a choice thanks to Rockne's fight for unencumbered access access to abortion mills.
You ASSume much. Judging handicapped and old people as not developed or productive is in your mind not mine. There are countless mentally (and otherwise) handicapped and old people living incredibly full and productive lives.
What is important to me is the quality of life we manage to obtain. Freedom is a major element of quality of life. Freedom to choose means the freedom to make poor/wrong decisions. I believe that abortion is a wrong decision in the majority of cases. So is smoking which kills and drinking alcohol which contributes to the deaths of too many and overeating which kills and ignoring the plight of much of the 3rd world which results in many unnecessary deaths.
Who put you or the government in charge of determining whether or not a woman must involuntarily experience the most consequential activity she will ever face - the development of a potential human being inside her body for 9 months and then endure a process which few modern women now endure without pain killing drugs. This can be the most rewarding experience or the most detrimental experience of a woman's life. It seems appropriate that she be the one to make the final decision regarding this.
If you are really concerned about the "sanctity of life", you might consider the possibility that life exists beyond this human experience and being born into this particular environment may not be such a great thing anyway - unless it is in the context of love, security, stability, maturity, opportunity, etc.
She lived her life dedicated to evil.
Hardly ... a long, lingering death would have given her more opportunity to repent. From an eternal perspective, a quick death may be the farthest thing possible from a blessing.
directly involved is the innocent child threatened with death by poison, chemical burning, or dismemberment. A government which refuses to provide legal protection to the innocent against violent assault is both derelict in its duties and unspeakably pussilanimous. The same can be said of those citizens in a Republic who refuse to compel their government to do its duty.
Try to sell that pablum to my niece.
Two years ago, she became pregnant. Her boyfriend and his parents bullied her into having an abortion. She relented because she really cared for the boy.
She had the abortion. A month later the boy broke off the relationship.
A dead baby and a broken-hearted teenager are the result of the "choice." Note that is was not HER choice, but his and his parents'.
The abortion industry exists to allow men to have sex without the consequences of fatherhood.
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