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Old 05-16-2008, 04:16 PM   #221 (permalink)
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You two are a making a false leap of science, here.

A bunch of cells that can not sustain itself is not a person.

Again, there are not enough families and foster families to adopt all the available unwanted kids that need to be adopted. Why do their lives not count for you?

Plus, the more children a woman has, the greater her risk of living in poverty.

No woman likes to have an abortion but the choice should be hers and her doctors.
Her choice is to reduce the risk of pregnancy. There are many ways to do that. But treating the conceived person as feces or urine should not be an option. Overturn Roe now. Make it a capital offense. Protect the defenseless. Stop the holocaust now.

Poverty? Stop having so much sex and it will reduce the risk. Sex should be very special anyway instead of a jog.
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Old 05-16-2008, 04:18 PM   #222 (permalink)
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Ultimately, then, you have no argument other than I am "lost" because
I do not have the same mystical vision as you. Perhaps in some circles
that (yet another) use of emotionalism would work as a distraction, but
not here.

By the way, your fellow Christian, whom some consider the "better
man" in the presidential campaign tragically turned away by the voting
public, today made a joke about Mr. Obama's danger of assassination.
He sounds a bit "lost" himself.
I saw it. He will apologize for saying something really stupid. Chris Matthews is trying to hide from talking about it because he does not want to publicize the 'thought.'

You seem to be enthusiastic about abortion. Probably even late term. Hell why stop there. You can take them out up to 2 or 3 years old too. Susan Smith and Andrea Yates did.
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Those that blindly embrace the wars of this failed presidency are confused Christians and need to read their good books a little more often.
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Old 05-16-2008, 04:29 PM   #224 (permalink)
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Those that blindly embrace the wars of this failed presidency are confused Christians and need to read their good books a little more often.
Are you a Christian? You support the holocaust of abortion so do not lecture about the Iraq war. One million innocent children are slaughtered each year in America alone. Not even Hitler was that brutal.
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Old 05-16-2008, 05:03 PM   #225 (permalink)
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for those of you who are anti-choice, could someone please explain to me how you can proclaim america the greatest country on earth, defend freedom and democracy then wish to begin it's systematic dismantling at the hands of an emotionally, rather than practically, charged issue?

for starters, roe v. wade will never be overturned...hear that, cookie? your republican leaders need it to get you to stay in line for fundraising and votes...a tool to scare your religious side, to threaten that which you don't really understand so your fear will override logic...why do you think they bring it up over and over again every single election cycle and nothing has been done about it? no one has made motions, no one has introduced legislation, no one has called for a debate...do you really enjoy being played like that?

secondly, who are any of you to tell anyone what they can or cannot do in their lives? cookie, you need your medication to function in life, to better your quality of living...what happens if the majority think that using synthetic drugs is immoral and dangerous because they are not a natural substance created by god? that we demand those drugs be banned because they can cause more problems in the long run than the few short years of increased quality of life now? your entire life as you currently know it would cease...your pain would increase, you may even die many years before you should because you would not have access to those drugs...given that or any similar scenario, do you want someone to take the decision about your life away from you, your doctor and your family?? do you believe that would just? to sacrifice your life for my beliefs, even if you do not choose to believe the same way as i?

you people are so arrogant....your whole argument is based on the fact that you actually believe women use abortion as birth control and that if people who just use condoms then abortion would not be needed...have any of you dare done any research on the subject? have you dared expand your knowledge base to find out the reason people choose abortion? in what scenarios the procedure is medically necessary?

i, for one, sincerely doubt it....

as for tax dollars being used...this government wastes billions upon billions of our tax dollars each year for nonsense projects and pork, yet you people want to bitch and moan about something that comprises less than 1% of the entire budget? where are your priorities?

but the bottom line above all else, is that no one else in this country has any right over my body, or anyone else's for that matter, to decide for us what is or is not an appropriate medical decision...period!
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Old 05-16-2008, 05:17 PM   #226 (permalink)
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for those of you who are anti-choice, could someone please explain to me how you can proclaim america the greatest country on earth, defend freedom and democracy then wish to begin it's systematic dismantling at the hands of an emotionally, rather than practically, charged issue?
Murder should not be a 'choice.' Freedom and democracy should not be espoused in support of gases babies in the womb.

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for starters, roe v. wade will never be overturned...hear that, cookie? your republican leaders need it to get you to stay in line for fundraising and votes...a tool to scare your religious side, to threaten that which you don't really understand so your fear will override logic...why do you think they bring it up over and over again every single election cycle and nothing has been done about it? no one has made motions, no one has introduced legislation, no one has called for a debate...do you really enjoy being played like that?
You are correct. A Constitutional Amendment will end this nazi practice.

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you people are so arrogant....your whole argument is based on the fact that you actually believe women use abortion as birth control and that if people who just use condoms then abortion would not be needed...have any of you dare done any research on the subject? have you dared expand your knowledge base to find out the reason people choose abortion? in what scenarios the procedure is medically necessary?
You people? You mean the ones who want to protect 'other people's unborn children?' Okay.

Please don't insult our intelligence. Condoms? Please. Sex is serious business. Married couples should take it as seriously as it is. It is not JUST sport. Conception is the beginning of a human life. Just as surely as our death is an ending. To cut it out of the body and flush it down the toilet is as cruel as the Nazis putting Jews in gas chambers. If you do not want to risk getting pregnant and not wanting the baby, then STOP HAVING SEX. But do not condone the murder.

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but the bottom line above all else, is that no one else in this country has any right over my body, or anyone else's for that matter, to decide for us what is or is not an appropriate medical decision...period!
Gas chamber thinking. That innocent child deserves better. If the host has homicide in mind then society has an obligation to protect it just as it does children outside the womb.
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I saw it. He will apologize for saying something really stupid.
He already has, which he needed to do. The realization of his error
aside, however, that he is capable of conceiving and delivering such
a "quip" says much about his Christian state of mind.

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You seem to be enthusiastic about abortion. Probably even late term. Hell why stop there. You can take them out up to 2 or 3 years old too. Susan Smith and Andrea Yates did.
I am not "enthusiastic" about any abortion, I am firm in my belief the
State should stay out of the bedrooms and bodies of its citizens.
A true conservative would agree, but religious "conservatives" are
authoritarians in disquise, not true anti-State conservatives.
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He already has, which he needed to do. The realization of his error
aside, however, that he is capable of conceiving and delivering such
a "quip" says much about his Christian state of mind.
You are so smug and pure. So secure in your self worship.

Christian do not have perfect behavior. And cannot have perfect behavior. I knew he would apologize and he knew he had stepped in it probably right after he said it. But I have done the same here and all you can do as an imperfect human is apologize and ask forgiveness. But YOU. You place yourself above us all. God too.

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I am not "enthusiastic" about any abortion, I am firm in my belief the
State should stay out of the bedrooms and bodies of its citizens.
A true conservative would agree, but religious "conservatives" are
authoritarians in disquise, not true anti-State conservatives.
God, Jesus and the Bible are the law. They clearly provide parameters for regulating bedrooms and bodies. You put too much faith in parties. I do not.

We could codify Bible principles and I would be perfectly happy. Stone adulterers even.
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You are so smug and pure. So secure in your self worship.

Christian do not have perfect behavior. And cannot have perfect behavior. I knew he would apologize and he knew he had stepped in it probably right after he said it. But I have done the same here and all you can do as an imperfect human is apologize and ask forgiveness. But YOU. You place yourself above us all. God
too.
I am not "pure" nor do I claim to be. I do not, however, possess the
state of mind to ad lib a joke about the possible assassination of
anyone, certainly not a presidential candidate, particularly given the
history of assassination in this country.

Yet a self described Christian, an ordained minister no less,
does have such a state of mind. Apologies are well and good, and
certainly owed in this case, but the source is still worthy of
examination. This possibility was on his mind, aimed specifically
at a Black presidential candidate, and he presented this strange
bit of thought process as humor.

And again, this was not from some jackass comic playing a backwater
nightclub, seeking to shock the drunks out of their stupor.
He is an ordained minister of a Christian church. How could such a
formulation even be in his mind? "Imperfection" does not do justice
to such a process. Should his mind not be on his "walk with Christ"
and rather than humor found in assassinating a presidential candidate?


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God, Jesus and the Bible are the law. They clearly provide parameters for regulating bedrooms and bodies. You put too much faith in parties. I do not.
Legally, in this country, we apply the Constitution as our standard,
not the Bible, since we are a secular republic, not a theocracy.

God, Jesus and the Bible are the law for you, but not for the
rest of us. The U.S. is not a Christian version of Iran.

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We could codify Bible principles and I would be perfectly happy. Stone adulterers even.
No doubt, but fortunately for "adulterers" and even you, although you
do not realize it, we have not "codified Bible principles" and will not
if we are to stay the United States.

The Bible is fine as a personal guidebook, should you feel the need
for one, but it is the Constitution which protects your choice of guide-
book and without that protection, with a theocracy as the basis of
our government, you run the risk of living under someone else's
interpretation of the Bible, an interpretation that may decide you
need to be in prison.
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Many of my tax dollars have gone to kill brown people in the Middle
East in order to protect our god given right to drive Hummers around
cities with no mountains in sight.
Or put another way, so what?


The disagreement is with the definition of humanity, and whose
priorities are to be honored. A living, breathing adult has priority in
the decisions made over her own body and reproductive schedule.
When the potential human life is brought into this world, its own rights
to be sovereign over its own body begin. Not before.

Using terms such as "baby" and "innocent unborn" when referring
to a first trimester pregnancy is emotionalism, not objectivity.

Giving the State power of life and death over its living, breathing
(post-born?) citizens is more dangerous than leaving the most
personal of health decisions to an adult woman and possibly her
doctor and whoever else she may want to consult.

Conservatives, who supposedly champion the rights of the
individual over the State, should support the concept of the
State staying out of the individual's private biology, and religious
people as well should understand the danger in ceding to the State
the power supposedly reserved by God.

Unless, of course, you are saying the State is the representative
of God...in which case we have a completely different problem.

But really, let us not kid ourselves. The abortion issue was and is still
a gift to the fundraisers of the Right, who can tap the religious
community over and over using this religious, and therefore out
of the purview of government, controversy.

using words like "fetus" is a clever way to avoid responsibility for killing a BABY
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