Michelle Bachmann

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Originally Posted by joeydb

I don't have a position on gay rights, and I don't know how that got in any way intertwined with what has become an abortion debate. So that's a total non-sequitur.

I did hear the 1% number (ballpark) over many years - whether it was 0.9% or 1.4%, something in between - I'm sure it varies year-to-year like any statistic. It's not 10%.

The hypothetical process I espoused - as a point of departure for a debate - was an attempt to get a better handle on it than we have now - where basically the role of God is played by the would-be mother: deciding who lives and who dies. That is unjust. There needs to be some sort of objective criteria. Innocent victims - yes, offspring in all stages of development - should not be killed without some sort of due process.

If we (the government of the United States) stayed out of this from 1973 and onward, there would be no federally sanctioned abortion. It would continue to be the risky crime it used to be. Medical abortion to save lives would still occur - doctors knew how to do it.

In case you missed MY point: Abortion is not a "right". It was not what Thomas Jefferson was referring to in the Declaration of Independence with all of us "being endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable Rights" (that reference to the Creator is his, not mine). Abortion is the result of an intellectually flawed Supreme Court decision that will someday be overturned. No legitimate "right" would give one person the ability under the law to kill another without any due process. That "right" certainly affects the life of the victim of the abortion!

The "woman's right to choose" - that sentence fragment - to choose what exactly? To choose to kill a baby. No one ever wants to complete the sentence, and I laugh at every politician who reads that talking point blankly off the teleprompter. That's the definition of vapid and unthinking.

If you have a better solution that addresses the rape situation or the threat to the mother's life, but does not reward irresponsibility, nor use abortion as a birth control method, I am all ears.

my point about rights, be they for homosexuals or women, is that the granting of rights doesn't equate you losing any rights. do you disagree about that?

as for the %, i brought that up because it's probably a skewed number. like i said above, people don't necessarily explain why they choose to end a pregnancy.

as for the mother choosing-she's choosing whether to be pregnant or not. it's not as tho a woman has any other choice when she finds out she's pregnant. you can't move the embryo elsewhere. you either continue the pregnancy, or you don't. not everyone equates abortion to murder-your belief that it is such doesn't make it so.

as for 'rewarding', that's a strange term. no birth control prevention is 100% effective. my mother joked that my brother was born with foam on his head (they had used a spermicide, ooops). so, if a woman does everything possible, but still becomes pregnant, tough crap. i find that ridiculous. and i doubt most women have a standing reservation at the local clinic-that's also a ridiculous assumption.

and the declaration of independence..it's a remarkable document, but i'm pretty sure we go by the constitution when we make laws.