Letters to the Editor
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Wow
The first thing I'd ask any doctor who fed me that line of malarky would be "Just where did you get your medical degree?" The second would be "do you actually believe that crap?"
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Broad Definition of Life
If you want to use the word "life" very broadly, then you've got to include in that prohibition virtually every animal, which are unquestionably alive and most of which feel pain in one form or another. Some studies suggest that even plants feel pain. Ok, granted, those studies are probably in the Swedish Journal of Paranormal Botany, but I'm sure I could produce a published study.
It's still amazing to me what the "culture of life" seems to include:
Zygotes: Yes
Prisoners: No
Poor people: No, unless they vote for you
Arabs: No, unless they're from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or the UAE
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Perspective
"The human-rights issue of our day?" Yes, because we've already eradicated poverty, hunger, racism, genocide, and oh yes, all that irksome religious unrest in the Middle East.
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"Funny" how Pro-Choice advocates seem only interested in one form of life- theirs
It is "funny"- actually tragic that the same folks that fervently believe that rocks begat life begat bugs which evolved into humans are so fervantly opposed to even considering the possible right to life of an unborn child.
The only difference between an unborn child an one who is born is his or her physical location.
That's it. A baby inside the womb is no more of less a child than those you coo over at the farmer's market. And of course if you were visiting someone with a newborn, it would be barbaric to reach over and decapitate the child.
But that's what happens in an "abortion." An abortion is the ending of a life. That's not a philisophical position, it's a biological fact.
The issue, from a scientific point of view, is settled. How much you want to accept the science is certainly up to you, and if you want to think of an unborn child as trash, that's your constitutional right.
Me, I think of all babies as babies.
I guess that makes me a right-wing, God-crazed nut, right?
You are so far supperior in your ability to ignore the unspoken cries of a murdered unborn child. I sure wish I was as sophisticated, informed, open-minded, all-understanding as you.
I guess I'm just an idiot for loving children, wherever they are, whatever their circumstances.
I know it's foolish to want to see kids born. I know, they're a burden on society, a tragedy for young women to deal with- better to kill them and protect mom's bank account, mom's career, or mom's reputation. That's so much more important than the life of the child.
Silly me.
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And...
... we have marriage equality, immigration rights for same-sex partners, full federal hate crimes and employment and housing protections, the elimination of the gay blood ban, and the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Whatever happened to queer civil rights being the human-rights issue of our day? Or is it a good thing for the queer community that the crazies' attention is now diverted to something else?
Or is the human-rights issue of our day that we have to endure these people while those who pull their strings sit back and laugh at us all?
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"The possible right to life of an unborn child"
Are you for real? A fetus doesn't even know what "life" is, nor does it have any concept of what is going on outside of the mother's body, or even what is going on while it is in the mother's body. It doesn't even understand that the place it's in is his mother's body.
So you want a child to be raised by a mother who didn't want the child and knows that it wasn't wanted?
Go to hell.
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Abortion Rate has Increased During the Bush Reign?
Just saw mention on an ABCnews.com message board of a 2004 study conducted at the Fuller Theological Seminary, a "leading" Evangelical Christian divinity school, that allegedly reveals that the steady decline in abortion rates during the Clinton era has been dramatically reversed during the Bush years.
Glen Stassen, the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics found that, under President Bush, rising unemployment and soaring healthcare costs have increased the abortion rate. He noted that "economic policy and abortion are not separate issues. They form one moral imperative." Stassen analyzed data from Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, the Guttmacher Institute, and annual reports by individual state governments. He found that abortion rates declined 17.4% during the 1990s and reached a 24-year low when President Bush took office. "We Hold These Truths" reported that "Many expected that downward trend to continue under the conservative president, but Stassen found the opposite: 52,000 more abortions occurred in 2002 than would have been expected under the pre-2000 conditions, and abortion has risen significantly in those states reporting multi-year abortion statistics."
Does anyone out there have any information about this study? I'd be curious to know more about the pool of participants, what the exact data was and how it was processed? I wouldn't be shocked if the results are true but, all though it would be tempting, I wouldn't want to latch on to inauthentic results just because they support my views. No doubt there are similar studies out there like this one, but it would be particularly sweet to validate this one considering the source.
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A 'warning' for all politicians considering military action
This proposed law is asinine. If, however, this asinine law gets passed, I would hope that they would add on to the bill. The bill would require that the entire government of Indiana, via a letter signed by all state representatives to their federal counterparts, remind the federal legislature and executive branches prior to any military action or military appropriations bill of any sort....
War and war-like actions are known to cause death, destruction, and disease in every single instance of their implementation throughout history. In fact, that is the point of war. For example, The Great War killed an estimated 50 MILLION people, 15 MILLION from combat related deaths and 30 MILLION from the ensuing disease. Hence, all military spending contributes significantly to pain, suffering and death. Often, this is on a global scale.
Also, every single execution carried out by the state has resulted in pain , suffering and death. Moreover, Indiana, as a state, was a hub of the KKK, which was known to cause signicant pain, suffering, death and intimidation to those lives OUTSIDE a womb! We write these truths to remind ourselves that all death, all destruction, and all suffering are NOT created equal.