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Posts by DameAutour

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  • Suicide-clinic entrepreneur: Depressed? 'We never say no'

    04/16/2006 11:37:14 AM PDT · 12 of 18
    DameAutour to wagglebee

    This is evil. I have a mental illness and I have attempted suicide in the past. I can't think of much more evil than someone "assisting" me in that sad endeavor.

    However, his argument is more consistent than that of most euthanasia advocates. He doesn't distinguish between physical pain and emotional pain. If we are to live or die based on "quality of life", then that ought to include everything, not just physical quality.

    This is where the world is heading.

  • Gay student hits snag over date to Villa prom

    03/26/2006 11:45:49 AM PST · 21 of 31
    DameAutour to Nachum

    What an extremely biased article. This is a perfect example for all of those in the "mainstream media" who don't understand why people criticize them for bias. This writer probably thought he was being objective, but-aside from one quote-he doesn't cite from anyone who might support the school's decision.

    The only "experts" he cites are pro-homosexual "experts". The only students he quotes are supporters of one side. The only statistics are pro-homosexual statistics.

  • Freeper Research Project: Survey of Freeper Personalities FINAL

    03/23/2006 5:24:07 PM PST · 50 of 129
    DameAutour to Kaylee Frye
    I am actually not ENTP, but ISTJ. Years ago, I tested as ENTP, but my recent test put me as an ISTJ.

    This may depend on your current age and your age when you originally took the test. This personality typing system is based on the 8 functions developed by Carl Jung. Everybody uses the same 8 functions, but in different orders and varying degrees of development. But as life progresses and hopefully we mature, we eventually start being more well-rounded, and using our less "natural" functions.

    The functions of the typical ENTP are in this order:

    N,T,F,S

    The functions of an ISTJ are in this order:

    S,T,F,N

    Other than the You probably know enough about yourself to know you're more a Thinker than a Feeler, but other life changes and function development could easily have you answering as a Sensate when you're an Intuitive (because you may be actively using that function now).

    It may help to think back on childhood. An imaginative child or a reality-based child? A "responsible" child or a "head in the clouds" child? As an adult, a detail-oriented "inspector" or an "inventor"? As a child, an introvert or an extravert?

  • Mark Steyn: 'Long war' is breaking down into tedium

    03/05/2006 10:24:43 PM PST · 68 of 74
    DameAutour to caveat emptor
    Steyn took what are commonplace occurrences in dealing with just about any bureaucracy, and used them to argue against the Patriot Act.

    I still don't get your point, sorry. Steyn isn't arguing against the Patriot Act at all.

    Annoy a nurse when asking about the condition of a close relative in hospital and you may get stiff-armed with patient confidentiality yada yada yada.

    If that nurse told you that the "patient confidentiality" rules are a result of the Patriot Act, when there is no such thing in the Patriot Act, that's what Steyn is talking about. The Patriot Act (and the War on Terror itself) is being undermined by these lies.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    03/01/2006 10:14:50 PM PST · 1,044 of 1,073
    DameAutour to Sonny M

    When I was in the high school debate club we debated abortion, and I used the same argument. I challenged someone to tell me to my face now that they knew that I was personally affected by a rape and pregnancy.

    One girl actually did try to say I shouldn't be here, but later I learned she had had an abortion and felt terribly guilty.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 10:27:33 PM PST · 786 of 1,073
    DameAutour to Will_Zurmacht

    Well it is painful to be on the horns of a moral dilemma. Very difficult and I do not envy you. I am not calling you a hypocrite or anything else. I wonder if you can "look the issue in the face". Can you come to terms with the fact:

    Abortion takes the life of an innocent child.

    The difficulty is knowing that and standing up and saying, "Yes, abortion is murder, but it is still right."

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 10:11:12 PM PST · 778 of 1,073
    DameAutour to Will_Zurmacht

    Your imagery is powerful. Ominous men in black, forcing rape victims to give birth under threat of prison. I can see them now, standing with the hand cuffs, saying "You WILL have that child!"

    Scary. It exists only in the imagination, but imagination can be powerful.

    I can also see something else. I see babies. I can see their sensitive skin burned by salt. Skin so sensitive it is like one big open wound. And I can see them drowning in saline.

    I can see other babies shrinking, trying to escape a sharp blade. Screaming. Silently.

    You can see it too. It's happened millions of times. They even have it on video. You don't even need an imagination. Just a conscience.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:54:51 PM PST · 756 of 1,073
    DameAutour to cgk
    Yes, I have a cartoon handy for nearly every topic! LOL!

    I envy you.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:51:23 PM PST · 748 of 1,073
    DameAutour to Secret Agent Man

    Because some people have deadened their consciences to the point that it is easier to support killing babies than abortionists or rapists.

    People seriously have a skewed sense of what is evil and what is not.

    It's like liberals who are mad about "panties on the head" but shrug when confronted with Saddam's henchmen bashing babies against the wall.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:36:59 PM PST · 718 of 1,073
    DameAutour to ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

    I've read hundreds of pro-abortion posts on this thread.

    Once someone says abortion is okay, well, that's pro-abortion.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:36:13 PM PST · 715 of 1,073
    DameAutour to LasVegasMac

    WHY is rape justification for killing an innocent child?

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:30:39 PM PST · 701 of 1,073
    DameAutour to FRONTLINER

    If you choose to close your mind, that is your choice.

    But it is nobody's choice to kill an innocent child. That is murder.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:29:43 PM PST · 699 of 1,073
    DameAutour to wireman

    What I'd love is if people would quit with the, "Wait'll it happens to you" argument. That's no kind of argument.

    Especially since there are people on this thread who DO HAVE ACTUAL PERSONAL EXPERIENCE in this area, and the majority (perhaps all of them) are coming down on the side of not killing babies.

    I don't hate Bush on this issue, as usual, he has been consistent. I really think he should have just said, "While I personally disagree with the law, I believe this a matter left to the states."

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:25:40 PM PST · 687 of 1,073
    DameAutour to Ultra Sonic 007

    Great post. I had the same reaction as a young girl, when I learned what abortion is. I had the same reaction when I learned about rape as well. They are both evils to be eradicated.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:23:20 PM PST · 682 of 1,073
    DameAutour to LasVegasMac

    I wasn't commenting on anyone's thoughts, motivations or beliefs, but on actions.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:22:01 PM PST · 678 of 1,073
    DameAutour to FRONTLINER

    What if it was my mother who was raped?

    Let me ask you, why is abortion terrible?

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:21:17 PM PST · 677 of 1,073
    DameAutour to LasVegasMac; eeevil conservative; Aussie Dasher; All
    Does anyone really care about how aborting the child affects actual rape victims? So many seem so comfortable, so sure of themselves, saying that it would be beneficial for a rape victim to kill the child. Is anyone interested in some facts?

    I am not "assuming" that having abortion kills an innocent child. But I think many are assuming that carrying the child worsens the trauma of the rape more than an abortion would.

    Many people who would generally call themselves "pro-life", nevertheless make an exception in cases of rape.

    Pro-abortionists often use rape as a prime example of a justification for abortion. How, they ask, could you force this poor woman to go through with this pregnancy?

    Pro-lifers typically reply that while they have great sympathy for a woman who has been so terribly victimized, the rights of the child must also be considered.

    But both sides in this debate rely on one key assumption: That abortion helps to ease the trauma of a woman who has been raped, and that women who have been raped want abortions. Pro-abortionists use this as their rallying cry. Pro-lifers explain why other factors are more important.

    But is this assumption true? Surprisingly, with all the studies that the government, universities, and big companies are always doing on every conceivable subject, we have only been able to find one small study on this question. Perhaps it is because everyone just assumed they knew the answer.

    But in 1979 Dr Sandra Mahkorn, a professional rape counselor, studied 37 women who had become pregnant through rape. (This was apparently all she could find. Pregnancy from rape is, in fact, extremely rare. The small numbers make the study less statistically significant. But we are certainly not going to hope for more rape victims just so we can get more reliable studies!) Of the 37, 4 did not complete the study. Of the remainder, 28 chose to continue their pregnancies, and 5 chose abortion. So of real pregnant rape victims, only 15% chose abortion.

    When questioned, most of these women said that they saw abortion as another act of violence. One woman said that she "would suffer more mental anguish from taking the life of the unborn child than carrying the baby to term".

    But few saw the question as a conflict between her own needs and the rights of the baby. Rather, most said that the major influence leading her to abortion was pressure from others: parents, boyfriend, etc.

    There is a curious thing about rape: People often place a stigma on the victim, as if she was the criminal rather than the rapist. They discuss what she might have done to invite it. Her husband or boyfriend may suddenly not want to touch her anymore. Friends and relatives shy away from her. The victim herself often falls into this line of thinking. Rape victims frequently run home and take a shower or try some other symbolic means of "cleansing themselves". Rape is one of the most un-reported crimes, because the victim so often feels guilty and ashamed.

    A few years ago the lawyer for an accused rapist in Florida argued in court that his client should be acquitted because the victim incited him by wearing a short skirt. Another judge went even further, releasing a rapist because he felt that women in his area provoked rape by their clothes and manners. (In the second case, the judge didn't even say that the victim herself somehow provoked the attack, just that women in general encouraged rapists.)

    Even if it is true that in some cases a woman "encourages" a rape by dressing provocatively or walking though a bad neighborhood alone at night ... That might mean that she was foolish, but it hardly makes her share in the guilt. Suppose you parked your car and left the keys in the ignition, and someone stole it. People might say that was a foolish thing to do, but I doubt anyone would say that you therefore "deserved" to have your car stolen, or that you are as guilty as the car thief. I cannot imagine someone suggesting that the thief should be released because you "asked for it" by leaving such a nice car so easy to steal. But that is apparently a common response to rape.

    And so it seems that the psychological problem faced by a pregnant rape victim is not that this child will "remind" her of the rape. (Like if she wasn't pregnant, she would just forget about it.) Rather, it is that when her pregnancy becomes obvious, she will be forced to "confess" that she is guilty of being raped. (Similarly, the baby is blamed for being conceived by rape. He is not thought of as an innocent baby, but as a "product of rape" -- an ugly blot to be removed.)

    Abortion does not solve rape. It simply transforms the victim into a victimizer. Jackie B. had an abortion after a rape. She later said:

    "I soon discovered that the aftermath of the abortion continued a long time after the memory of my rape had faded. I felt empty and horrible. Nobody told me about the emptiness and pain I would feel deep within, causing nightmares and deep depressions. They had all told me that after the abortion I would continue on with my life as if nothing had happened. ... I found that though I could forgive the man who raped me, I couldn't forgive myself for having the abortion."

    Debbie "N." wrote:

    "I still feel that I probably couldn't have loved that child conceived of rape, but there are so many people who would have loved that baby dearly. The man who raped me took a few moments of my life, but I took that innocent baby's entire life."

    Debbie's comment starkly shows the actual effect on the women who is aborted to "cure" rape: It shifts the focus from the violence the rapist committed against her, to the violence she committed against the baby. I would never dream of minimizing rape by saying that it only "took a few moments" of the woman's life -- clearly the fear, trauma, and sense of violation lasts much more than a few moments. But Debbie described her own rape that way, because she is now comparing what the rapist did to her, with what she did to this baby.

    As one young woman put it, "The solution to rape is not abortion. The solution to rape is stopping rape."

    from http://www.pregnantpause.org/aborted/curerape.htm

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:13:05 PM PST · 659 of 1,073
    DameAutour to FRONTLINER

    It seemed like a serious statement to me.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:05:43 PM PST · 643 of 1,073
    DameAutour to LasVegasMac

    You are trying to substitute emotionalism and hyperbole for an argument. Don't waste time being "offended" by her use of analogy, don't waste time being "SHOCKED" that someone of the "female persuasion" could possibly be moral and make decisions rationally and morally, not emotionally.

  • Bush disagrees with South Dakota abortion ban

    02/28/2006 9:03:18 PM PST · 635 of 1,073
    DameAutour to firequarrel

    It is no less evil if an individual makes the "decision" to murder another human being. THAT is evil.

    The government would be doing one of the few things it is supposed to do. Defend and protect those who cannot do for themselves. In this case, we are talking about babies.