This is the point where I become convinced once again that people don’t actually read things before they start talking about them.
Comment: I believe life starts in the womb and no argument will make abortion a good alternative.
…and they, Planned Parenthood, continue to push abortions through mandate.
http://www.texasrighttolife.com/a/573/Planned-Parenthoods-New-Abortion-Mandate
Thankfully, true, full service, non referral to abortion for their cut of the trade, are fighting against the mandate and some changing name away from Planned Parenthood.
in your opening you talked about hanger abortions… hey, check out what this “legal” abortionist has been up to last month and the charges against him for murder for botching abortions and check out his history. Only in it for the dollar!!
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/01/19/philly-doctor-facing-8-counts-of-murder/
Some pretty sick stuff and you want your dollars referring kids to people like this?
There are many options that need be explored first before the “quick fix,” abortion!!
(Not to be snarky, but since when does half through a piece count as “in your opening”?)
My response: I agree that no one should be forced to perform an abortion if they are morally opposed to it. If that’s how the people running that health center feel, I think it’s fine that they’ve separated themselves from Planned Parenthood and it’s great that they’re able to continue to operate and provide affordable reproductive health care.
Where does their funding come from? http://fpocb.org/FP/About
Donations sure. But also Medicaid and other government funds and grants. They too will be hurt by proposed cuts.
Or how about Colorado? For over a decade Colorado has prohibited Title X funds to go to Planned Parenthood or other clinics providing abortion services. There the funds go mainly to health department clinics. With these cuts, all of those health clinics that have nothing to do with abortion will lose funding.
As for your second article, that man was not operating legally at all. And he is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood. What he did was disgusting and inexcusable. He should go to jail, at the very least, for a very, very long time. I wouldn’t be sad if they locked him up and lost the key.
Don’t get me started on that article and this person’s comments regarding it. What I said in my response was about all I could say and still keep things civil.
February 24, 2011 at 1:15 pm
I am appalled that people still think of abortion as a “quick fix” and that it’s cheap and the go-to birth control for slutty females. Apparently, these people do not understand the excruciating physical pain women can go through when they abort, especially using RU-486. Also, abortions through Planned Parenthood are anything but cheap.
Abortions are going to happen, whether they are legal and Planned Parenthood continues on or not. But it would be better for the overall health of the women involved if they could go through with these scary procedures with some modicum of safety.
Also, this argument seems to be ignoring the other side of abortion — that oftentimes it is recommended to preserve the woman’s health and safety. Forcing a woman to carry a baby to term when that pregnancy is harming her because “abortion is wrong” is atrocious and ought to be criminal. Those who are anti-abortion love to cart out Tim Tebow as their golden boy — how his mother’s doctors recommended she abort but she didn’t and oh happy day thank Jeebus. Do you know why her doctor recommended she abort? To save her damn life. She was lucky, and she ended up getting a great son out of it. But still, above it all, she was a lucky one.
February 24, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Sadly when you speak out publicly you will get your share of the dittoheads who parrot the lies and distortions propogated by the far right . But at the same time you may be reaching others who are open to the truth. If enough of us begin to make our voices heard as loudly as the reactionaries have been perhaps there is hope for things to get better.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke ( a very cool statesman byy the way – a lot of what he had to say about the American and French revolutions is very apropos today.)
February 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm
The way I sort of figure it with the people leaving these comments, there’s nothing I can say that will make them consider any argument other than their own. But other people who may be reading this may actually be willing to consider logic.
It’s a venue to get some facts out there in the midst of scare tactics and propaganda.