I used to be staunchly Republican, up until W Bush’s first time elected. IMO, he wasn’t elected by the people then or the second time around.
I am against the war in the first place, and now I am fervently so.
We are spending billions rebuilding Iraq now and we haven’t even rebuilt New Orleans. We are propping up the Iraqi economy and ours has gone to hell in a hand basket.
We are not taking proper care of our soldiers during combat or after. We are not properly taking care of our people’s medical needs, including our veterans.
We were heaping debt upon debt upon debt, and now the time has come to pay the piper, we have nothing but debt and no one will lend us money anymore. So what to do? Print fake money of course, to prop up the dying economy. The US is more than broke, it is irrevocably in debt and it will take many years to climb oput of that hole. That is, if funds start being managed sensibly.
The awful abortion practice described above (and it is sickening) is only used when you choose the life of the mom or the child. Some women choose to sacrifice their life for that of the child and some don’t. Oftentimes it is the husband pushing for the abortion to save his wife’s life. Put yourself in such an unfortunate situation. You want to decide who will live and who will die? Not me. It’s their decision.
Anti choice people even want to prohibit the “morning after” pill. What nonsense is that? How many unwanted babies born to teenagers or raped women have these anti choice people adopted? How many abused children are the result?
Lets go back to pre abortion days. I had a teenage friend bleed to death after trying to abort with a knitting needle because she was too scared to tell her parents she was pregnant. Do we want that again? Do we want to make it possible to have black market abortions performed by anyone who sports a knitting needle and a quiet room?
Abortion is never an easy choice. Many women make a wrong one and regret it for the rest of their lives – whatever they choose. Many children are born into a living hell and many never find out what would happen. It’s never good.
The solution in most cases (except where wanted pregnancies go wrong and threaten the woman’s life) is education, prevention and taking the stigma off adoption. That’s how you make things better for people (including babies). Not by forcing people to raise unwanted children or by killing women in order to give birth to orphaned babies. Thats recycling human life at a record speed, the orphaned baby girl grows up with the same defect and then has to die giving birth to another orphaned baby girl who then has to die giving birth to another… Is that preservation of life or perpetuation of death?
These topics are very personal to the people who have to experience the situations in their own lives. It’s easy for you and me to sit in judgement and adhere to a principle, but it’s as wrong as can be.
The decision belongs with the affected people.
And for god’s sake, let’s not run our country into complete financial destruction. IF it can be saved. :sarcasm: