Category Archives: Abortion
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Rudy’s off my list
For me, Rudy Guiliani was a front-funner for the Republican nod for the 2008 elections.
Then I saw this.
“There must be public funding for abortions for poor women. We cannot deny any woman the right to make her own decision about abortion because she lacks resources.”
You’ve gotta be kidding me.
First off, no woman is denied the right to make her own decision about abortion. There are resources out there. Privately funded resources. Planned Parenthood ring a bell? If anything, women are encouraged to abort babies in this country.
Secondly, we can and should deny women rights that they shouldn’t have! We don’t, of course. But we should.
That being said, I honestly don’t think making abortion* illegal is the solution. Women would still find a way, and that would put even more lives in danger. I don’t know what the solution is. Education, definitely. More affordable/free birth control. I don’t know.
What I do know is that, almost across the board, abortion views are a deal breaker for me when it comes to electing officials.
*I am not referring to late-term or partial birth abortions here. Those unequivocally should be illegal, across the board, no matter the circumstance.
Posted in Abortion, Politics, Social Justice
Abortion is apparantly "a moral good"
Some bloggers make me so mad I want to spit nails. Some women make me so mad I usually let a few 4 letter words fly (only in my head, of course). So what happens when it’s a woman blogger who makes me mad?
Don’t ask.
I can’t believe that there are people out there like Amanda Marcotte. Amanda is one of the contributors to the Pandagon, and the author of this little gem here.
She takes the position that having an abortion (and she does clarify that she means the actual procedure, not just the right to have one) is a moral good because women are thinking of their own well-being and the well-being of their families when they make the decision to have one.
What about the well being of the baby whose life she’s choosing to end?
It seems to me that having an abortion is, in most (not all) cases, an extremely selfish act.
She says:
Women who get abortions should be recognized as people who can accurately weigh their choices and make the most moral one.
Then she goes on to laud the unsung “heroes” – the men and women who perform the abortions.
There are really no words for this kind of woman.
Blogs that link here: Pursuing Holiness, Dumb Ox News, Right Voices, and Third World County.
Posted in Abortion, Media and Culture
Judge Dismisses Charges Against Woman Who Killed Her Unborn Child
This story, about a woman who shot her stomach, killing her unborn child, on the morning she was to deliver (she was having contractions), makes me want to scream and rage and cry all at the same time.
I want to hurt the judge.
That may not be the most Christ-like attitude to have, but at least it’s an honest one. I am very adamantly pro-life. Oddly enough, it isn’t rooted in my faith. I don’t think abortion is a moral problem–it’s a legal one. If this woman had waited a few hours to shoot her baby once it was outside the womb, there would be no question about her guilt. She would have been convicted of murder. But because the child (who was completely formed and full term) was still in the womb, she’s innocent of murder.
Why does some skin, tissue, flesh, and fluids count as the line that is drawn between murder and legal abortion?
All she was charged with was carrying out an illegal abortion. And then she was found not guilty because it is apparantly not a crime for the mother of the child to kill her own child.
If someone else had pulled the trigger, he or she would be criminally accountable. Because it was the pregnant woman herself, no crime was committed, the court ruled.
What kind of crap is that?
