Is this really what it’s all about?
Posted by Terry Nelson on Jul 30th, 2007
The reason American’s should be pro-choice.
Excluding the basic principles of eugenics, is the main reason a woman’s right to choose an abortion summarized by this statement from Sen. Obama?
“If the argument is narrow, oftentimes we lose,” he said. “But if you ask everybody, you ask the most conservative person, do they want their daughters to have the same chances as men? Most of them will answer in the affirmative.” - New York Times, 7/18/07 (Fr. Welzbacher has the entire article here.)
(Photo: Margaret Sanger and founders of Planned Parenthood, El Paso, Texas.)
July 30th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Terry,
It seems to me, as a woman, that women have a special duty to protect life. I have never borne a child, but I still feel the urge to protect all human life. I believe that all women were created this way.
Because our bodies bear the young, we cannot get away with the same sexual license as a man (seemingly)can.
Does that make me less than a man? No! I see that it is a special grace. It is a gift from God.
Many men inevitably find that sexual license is equal to death. Any of God’s gifts, if misused, can lead to death of the soul.
I am still reading your blog…
Terry
July 30th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Yep, this election w/be very decisive of where our country will be heading …. yep.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:34 am
I think I should start a blog entitled: “WTF Did Barack Obama Really Say?” I”m seeing more of his bumper stickers around town (not surprising in this liberal Mecca) but I’m disturbed by the fact that he does nothing but mouth meaningless platitudes and he gets to be on Oprah and he gets to run for President. I’m more disturbed that people are just eating it all up. He, literally, has nothing original to say. And what he does say makes little, to no, sense.
Maybe I need to move to Puerto Rico?
July 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Terry - thanks for reading and commenting.
PML - these elections get scarier and scarier.
Cathy - I honestly think it’s all about PR and handlers, and all anyone has to do is say the politically correct stuff to please Oprah’s audience and the evident majority of people who are tired of Bush.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Huh? Same chances as men? What a bunch of BS. So many women I know (meaning my husband’s family predominately) used to be pro-life. Actually, they were anti-abortion. Then this equality smokescreen clouded the entire issue. It went from an objective topic to an emotional one. My husband’s entire family (yes, I bash them entirely too much) now supports abortion, not because they consider it a good thing, but because it “empowers” women in some twisted sort of way. They rant about Viagara because where’s the same thing offered for women…pharmaceutical companies are “run by men so they are only interested in providing these great pills for men.” Gag. They seem to forget about that “glorious pill” that equalizes things for women. And, what about the morning after pill, too? Sorry to rant on your blog, but I think many of us have been banging our heads against this demonic argument for years. How we ever got to this point, especially where WOMEN will get up and proudly proclaim that they are pro-choice, is just beyond understanding.
July 31st, 2007 at 6:30 am
GO swissmiss!
I love it that we have so many feisty bloggers in our state.
August 5th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Obama is just like all the rest.
Did everyone forget that our “pro-life” president approved funding increases for Planned Parenthood? Did everyone forget that he sanctioned the availablity of the abortion pill? (By the way, the FDA falls completely under the power of the executive branch. Congress could not have stopped him from putting a ban on RU486 any more than they could have stopped the Clinton administration approving it.)
The next election will probably give us the same choice: the GOP’s war pigs and hypocrite “pro-lifer” vs the DFL and their staunch pro-abortionists. I didn’t feel good about voting last time, and I probably won’t vote this time either.