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U.S. Military Must Pay for Abortion
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| June 1
| Associated Press
Posted on 06/01/2002 3:48:59 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Always Right
Hard to argue in this case. The baby has no hope and can only endanger the mother. As the saying goes: Hard cases make bad law.
To: SlickWillard
I am with you on the prolife issue. And I agree with you in this case.
But I think that framing our argument around saving money ["our tax dollars at work"] is a losing argument, and does not emphasize the importance of all human life the way you did in your post.
To: mdittmar
Do you think we should deny military personel coverage for smoking related illness?
If the military is going to be the battleground for social change, then it could happen. Or any of the other pet causes of the left.
I think we should let the military personel alone and seek social change at other venues.
To: SlickWillard
Sadly true.........precident being set every day IMHO.
Stay Safe !
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posted on
06/01/2002 8:56:37 AM PDT
by
Squantos
To: Free_at_last_-2001
Very astute observation...the ongoing 2nd amendment squabble in DC is a perfect example of this. The left is very very good at this.
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:03:24 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: anniegetyourgun
Today it only applies in this case.....tomorrow..... Exactly .. as I feel sorry for this women and her baby .. the Military or any part of our government should not be paying for abortions
These women want an abortion I cannot stop them .. but I don't want my tax dollars to pay for it
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:15:55 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: mdittmar
L?4?udgment that needs to be overturned. This progress down the road of human life valuation is precisely what went before the rise of National Socialism in Germany before the Second World War and achieved its end in the death camps of the Holocaust. We keep repeating Germany's mistakes over and over again, and Nazi logic is used by American leftists on everything from therapeutic cloning to this. After we are done embracing this way of thinking, we too will sit in ruins on the dustheap of nation states.
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:16:54 AM PDT
by
Siobhan
To: wita
This would almost be a no-brainer... That might not have been the best possible choice of words, considering the circumstances in this particular case....
If you did so intentionally, nevermind.
-archy-/-
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:23:57 AM PDT
by
archy
To: GovernmentShrinker
fyi
To: Mo1
"I feel sorry for this women and her baby
These women want an abortion I cannot stop
but I don't want my tax dollars to pay for it
" So, you would rather the military laid out a couple of hundred thousand
dollars to let a baby without a brain linger for a few weeks?
Nevertheless, my view is "I don't want my tax dollars to pay for it."
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:28:09 AM PDT
by
APBaer
To: mdittmar
... anencephaly, a condition in which the baby has no brain and survives for only a few days.I'm not sure how a baby could survive *at all* with no brain. However,
anencephaly : congenital absence of all or a major part of the brain -- Webster's III.
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:28:15 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: mdittmar
U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner ruled Thursday that the government could not refuse to pay for the abortion on moral grounds. I thought morality didn't matter in abortion cases. This opens a whole new door.
Is mass murder of the pre-born moral? What is the definition of moral? It certainly isn't tearing a human life from the womb now is it?
Morality has now set a legal president in a court of law. Is it moral for a woman to kill a mans unborn child? It's half his. Is it moral to steel that life from another?
To: APBaer
You have your opinion .. I have mine
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posted on
06/01/2002 9:44:49 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: mdittmar
The government has no place getting involved in abortion funding. Period. Next thing you know, we'll be killing all those without the gene for blond hair and blue eyes. Sound familiar?
To: Mo1
"You have your opinion .. I have mine"
Fine, just don't expect me to cheer your spending the taxpayers' hundreds
of thousands so you can amuse yourself with your opinion.
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posted on
06/01/2002 10:01:45 AM PDT
by
APBaer
To: mdittmar
Anencephalic babies are NOT doomed to death. Here is an example:
Faith Aminah Shabazz - Faith was diagnosed with anencephaly while still in the womb. Her mother, Margo, chose to carry her to term. Faith was born in March of 2001. Faith is still alive today.
There are more at this link.
Just because a child's life is inconvenient for the parents (or society) or shorter than the parents (or society) would like, is no reason (or excuse) to murder an innocent child. According to the "logic" used by this judge (and his supporters) we should kill anyone who can be shown to have a "projected life span" of only a few days. That is evil.
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posted on
06/01/2002 10:30:16 AM PDT
by
jimkress
To: Free_at_last_-2001
This is the thin end of the wedge - hard cases make bad law! - Liberals know this it is their best tactic.It is, they do, they do, and it is.
This is the kind of case that could just as easily be used to justify partial-birth abortions where the goal is to violently scramble and suck out the normal-sized brains of living, healthy unborn children.
Well, I'll leave now before Laz comes and accuses me of injecting an "irrelevant" partial-birth-abortion-of-healthy-babies post into a taxpayer-supported-abortion-of-unhealthy-babies thread.
To: Lazamataz
Come, Grand Poobah, and tell us what we may and may not post. We're lost without your guidance.
To: mdittmar
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posted on
06/01/2002 11:02:50 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Even I support the abortion in this case. But, I don't support the govt. fitting the bill.
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