Michelle Bachmann

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

and like i said above, the issue of a documented crime is a thorny one. what if the accused rapist goes free? what if the case doesn't go to trial? or what if people just shouldn't have to meet your choice of a burden of proof? then there's the fact that people can find professionals to say yea or nay to pretty much any topic under the sun, who would be the decider? three doctors say no, three say yes-should it be a committee? how much of a fight would it take? what if someone had to go through said hoops, was rejected by the 'abortion police' and died?
or, what if we just stay out of it, and let folks decide for themselves...no, we can't do that, we must be other peoples' judges.

and where does the 1% come from you mentioned above? have you done a survey? how many women don't say it was a crime, or a molestation? how many victims don't speak out already because they feel shame?

at any rate, i don't feel it's anyone's place to tell others what they should or shouldn't do regarding their reproduction choices. it's no one else's business.
and i asked you in a post above, but i guess you missed it...how does someone else's right affect you? how does a woman's right to choose have any affect on your life?

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.