" Ya know, I think I used to live in the same apartment building with this woman, years ago -- scary thought. "

" Please allow me to add to the excellent points already made by brew and FG. If the ANTI-CHOICE crowd were really serious about minimizing the number of abortions in this country, they'd approve of something besides abstinence-only education in our schools. Abstinence-only is ineffective in reducing teen pregnancy but it's the only curriculum that fits into the right's narrow-minded view. Additionally, wingers want to believe that women who have abortions feel no remorse or guilt, when in fact this is an emotional, gut-wrenching decision that affects them for the rest of their life. But it's easier for smaller-minded individuals to portray these women as consciousless, welfare-draining baby-killers. Conservatives only think that they're cornered the market on morality, but in reality they have not. "

" Obama respecting life--------"A pro-life activist in Illinois says Barack Obama has repeatedly mischaracterized his opposition to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he was a state senator.



The Federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act was signed into law in 2002 after receiving unanimous support from the U.S. Senate. The measure that forces hospitals to give medical care to abortion survivors -- if warranted -- even received the backing of liberal senators Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts ), Barbara Boxer (D-California), and Hillary Clinton (D-New York).


Obama now says he did not support the Illinois measure because it "lacked the Federal language clarifying the act would not be used to undermine Roe vs. Wade. Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek recently wrote a column for WorldNetDaily.com titled "Obama's biggest lie about supporting infanticide." She points out Obama actively opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act for three years in the Illinois senate.

"He voted against it. He was the sole senator speaking against it on the [Illinois] senate floor [for] two years. And the third year, he held the bill from being considered altogether in committee and killed the bill," Stanek contends. "

" Oh brrrOTHER!
GOBAMA!!!
GOBAMA!
GOBAMA!!! "

" Flushing a ball of cells which has only the POTENTIAL to be human life some day is NOT "murder," and thank goodness I have the right to believe so.

Pro-CHOICE is not pro-abortion. Plenty of pro-choice people would not choose to have an abortion themselves, but have the respect for others to let them make their own choices. Pro-choice means not having a dictatorial government which says you MUST have an abortion if it is believed your child will have Down's Syndrome, but rather gives you the CHOICE to decide if you feel you can handle the child's special needs, or if you want to bear a child and give it up for adoption, or if that would be unbearable for you. Having choice means a victim of rape or incest would not be forced to bear a child conceived of that crime as a living reminder of the horror to carry around in your body for months, and to have to give birth, and perhaps to have to give up, which could be just as traumatic as keeping the child. Pro-choice means also that you CAN have a child under those circumstances if that's what you prefer.

I tend to agree with brew, that such a think should not be decided lightly, and a decision made only when necessary. I would not allow later-term abortions except under special extenuating circumstances -- if you find yourself pregnant when you did not want to be, you should be making a decision as soon as you can so there is no question of whether it's a child or a ball of cells inside you.

But that's MY CHOICE to view things that way, and it should be your choice to view it differently. Just don't try to force your choice on me. Pro-Choice people don't.... "

" I just don't believe you can tell others how to live their lives according to your moral beliefs. I think abortion should be taken very seriously and only be used when neccessary. But I will not impose my moral beliefs on others. What is next forced religion? "