Bush's Successes
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| Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm |
Dear Reader,
I'm getting sick and tired of my fellow Americans
saying that the presidency of George W. Bush is a
failure. With the string of successes he's had,
nothing could be further from the truth. Let me list a
few:
1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling
budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion
deficit.
2. He has successfully helped America's trading
partners have the highest trade surplus with us in
America's history.
3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the
richest Americans and corporations at the expense of
99% of the American population.
4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in
Iraq after lying to the whole world.
5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to
the highest level ever here in America.
6. He has successfully allowed American corporations
to dramatically increase their pollution.
7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the
population out of work.
8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export
our best middle-class jobs.
9. He has successfully divided our country as never
before.
10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.
11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never
before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a
divider).
12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the
constitution of the United States of America.
13. He has successfully united Democrats (yay!) as
they haven't been for years (I told you he was a
uniter).
14. He has successfully driven me out of the
Republican party for the rest of my life.
You know, with a string of successes like that, it's a
wonder America is still standing.

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Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Edited 9/18/2004 3:56 am ET ET by crownotangelgrl
Her situation was even worse than mine in terms of emotional distress and I too have heard of doctors and pharmacists turning people away because of their "personal" beliefs. Or it simply could have been mistakes.
However, I think society still places the responsibility on women and then if she does end up pregnant she is the "evil slut". While men can continue to sleep around as much as they want and there is no stigma on them.
As to the relevance of this discussion to the original post. The OP suggested that the article suggests a need to keep abortion available using the example of a woman with a fetal death at 19 weeks, bleeding, having no Dr to treat her. That is simply not true. A D&E is not the only way to treat a woman with a stillborn fetus. Some woman prefer to let nature takes it's course and wait to see if they will go into labor. Others can have their cervix dilated and be given medication to cause labor and expell the baby. Another way is to dilate the cervix and extract the baby, in parts or in whole. At 19 weeks I have found that the risks have gone up (after 17 weeks) for DIC, a clotting problem, with D&E's or Intact D&E's (which is actually the procedure for partial birth abortion). DIC, contrary to the way some of these sites make it sound, while it is reversible, it is not a cake walk, and it every patient that I ever took care of (kids) and every mom that I ever knew to go into DIC (Disemminated Intravascular Coagulation) were very, very ill. Critically ill. It's not something that is treated on a general hospital floor, the patient is in ICU. So, as I said, I would really like to know more that this brief, biased, explaination guised to promote the need for partial birth abortion being available. AND, if this woman was actively bleeding with a known fetal demise and was turned away by several, I think the article sited 2 or 3 physcians, she should at the VERY least be reporting every one of the butts to the proper medical authorities, but should also be dragging those butts into court. Delivering a fetal demise has nothing to do with aborting a live fetus, and any Dr that denied treatment using that type of ideology has stepped over the line, and I question their judgement. Maybe this woman couldn't find a Dr appropriately trained in D&E, but she didn't have to keep bleeding and not know what was going to happen to her. There were other options and procedures available.
(Also apologizing for being off-topic!)
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