Democrats have screwed up priorities

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Democrats have screwed up priorities
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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 11:30pm

i dont get it.

I was reading today about Obama's short term agenda and three things that came up were

1) stop plans to drill for oil in environmentally fragile areas
2) stop the ban on funding of abortion aid in other countries
3) stop ban on stem cell creation and subsequent destroying for research purposes.

WHAT??????

why is the environment and/or animals more important that unborn babies?

many times the liberal agenda is more for the rights of everything EXCEPT unborn kid, eg: baby animals, people on death row, gay rights, etc.

I am not against the rights of those i just listed, i would just include unborn children too, right?? it seems like strange priorities, or hypocritical.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-15-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 7:16pm

No, I support the right of each woman to decide what is best for her.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 7:17pm
That's a good analogy! Well said.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 7:18pm

I must have missed the passage where Jesus described people as "garbage".

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 7:29pm

~You must be either for or against it.~


Frankly, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, anybody who references members of her community as "garbage" is not in a position to decide for others how they "must" view

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-03-2007
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 7:34pm

Exactly!!


How can you consider yourself "pro-life" when you view other living beings as garbage and not worthy of care or compassion.??

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 7:49pm
~Exactly!!How can you consider yourself "pro-life" when you view other living beings as garbage and not worthy of care or compassion.??

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-09-2006
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:12pm

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I don't know even ONE person like this...

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-09-2006
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:25pm

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As my teenage son says, "Uh...no." That claim is ... preposterous. I understand the REALITY that some women will have abortions "of convenience" whether it is legal or not, and that the way to diminish the number of them is to educate women (and girls) about human sexuality and contraception. There are also medical reasons for abortion: for example, a woman I knew terminated a pregnancy she had sought for FOUR years when she was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive recurrence of cancer. There was no possibility of carrying the four month fetus to term; the abortion was done in a desperate (and unsuccessful) attempt to save the mom's life. No one "wanted" to kill a baby.




Edited 11/11/2008 10:28 pm ET by muddymessalonskee
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-17-2007
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:45pm
Late term abortions are because the womans health is in danger. A woman with an infected amnion/fetus, HELLP syndrome, preeclampsia at 18-26 weeks must have an abortion or she will become quite ill or die. When the mom dies so does the baby. 18-24 weeks is previable and can't survive outside the mom. 24-26 weekers can be resuscitated but the medical counseling to parents about that gestation now is that it is experimental care and the baby has a very high risk of profound disabilities if it survives. Describing it as killing a living baby adds to the emotional upset, distress and guilt of a sick mom who lost her pregnancy. I personally can't imagine anything harder. We should try to understand the situation before we judge.



iVillage Member
Registered: 04-17-2007
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:52pm

2) stop the ban on funding of abortion aid in other countries


I am at work and don't have many resources but my memory is that Bush blocked funding approved by Congress for medical aid for women and children to 3rd world countries. He blocked it because some of them counseled or offered abortions. It wasn't abortion aid it was medical aid.

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