Comments on: “Common Ground” is a Farce.

By: Abortion | Life Analytical

Abortion | Life Analytical — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:46:27 +0000

[...] of ethics, economics, global ecology, and a whole host of other things. But anyway, from the post “‘Common Ground’ is a Farce”: President Obama, bless his heart, is under the impression that it’s possible for pro-choicers to [...]

By: Jennie Crain

Jennie Crain — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:25:15 +0000

I didn’t say ALL were lazy, uninformed or stupid, but too many are. Education along with a dose of reality and responsibility would save many women from the trauma and heartbreak of abortion.
Yes, reliably used methods of conception prevention sometimes fail, but that is the exception.
It’s important to focus on the primary causes of unwanted pregnancies and do all we can to eliminate them, not the innocent lives they create.

By: Hana Maru

Hana Maru — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:03 +0000

“Very indicative of how your side of the debate thinks.”

Indeed. My mother has a master’s degree, and she got pregnant with a tubal ligation(performed correctly) Not to say that that particular situation happens all the time, but that brains, education, and properly working birth control aren’t such an antidote to the problem of unwanted pregnancy that they could substitute for legal and accessible abortion.

My mother had also been abstinent until marriage. She had her abortion after, as do a great many married women, or have I misunderstood and are we supposed to be abstinent for life?

By: bb

bb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:43:23 +0000

Jennie Crain, I like how you just implied that every woman who gets an abortion did so because she was “uninformed, irresponsible, lazy, or just plain stupid.” Very indicative of how your side of the debate thinks.

By: crowepps

crowepps — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:22:37 +0000

You know that old Puritan maxim:
“If it’s not a duty, it’s a sin.”

By: Jennie Crain

Jennie Crain — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:32:17 +0000

I am pro-life. In my opinion, abortion is never the answer. I also believe, we as a society, have failed to fully inform and educate several generations regarding the basic mechanics of sex. There are still women out there (some with excellent college educations) who believe they can’t get pregnant if (1)they’re breastfeeding,(2)they didn’t have an orgasm,(3)they just had their period or any number of other “old wives tales” or lies told by men.
THE ONLY 100% EFFECTIVE METHOD OF PREVENTING CONCEPTION IS ABSTINENCE.
Even women on the pill get pregnant because they failed to ask, and their doctors failed to advise, that certain medications interfere with the effectiveness of oral contraceptives.
Most of the money from any legislation should go towards education and information. Ads should appear in magazines, public service announcements should be on radio and television and every form of contraception should include an impossible to miss disclaimer stating that it may fail. No one can make an informed decision without the information.
It is my sincere hope that when more people know the facts and take them to heart, fewer unwanted pregnancies will occur and fewer unborn babies will die because their parents were uninformed, irresponsible, lazy or just plain stupid.

By: Awkward Avenger

Awkward Avenger — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:35:50 +0000

@thebewilderness: That is really beautiful. I’m filing that away for future use.

I’ll never understand why anti-choice people, who frequently subscribe to a faith that says it’s a (married) woman’s DUTY to bear children, paint pro-choicers as extremists.

By: Kari

Kari — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:46:32 +0000

@afteriris: I know what you mean. The reproductive rights debate is one of the very few places where my tolerance and understanding just breaks down. I can’t even speak to anti-choice people, because their position is so unethical and logically untenable that I can’t contain my contempt.

By: thebewilderness

thebewilderness — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:53 +0000

There is no common ground possible between those who think women are human and therefore entitled to human rights and civil rights and those who consider women a human resource.

Human rights, civil rights, you either got ‘em or you don’t.

By: queenieinmanhattan

queenieinmanhattan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:14:23 +0000

Around and around and around we go, eh? Un-freaking-believable. How on earth do they expect to reduce unplanned pregnancies without contraception? Forced sterilization? Isolating men from women from now till the end of time?

The anti-choice movement is deluded to the point of self-defeatism.