How come Republicans cry abortion takes life & yet don't cry about life lost in Bush's war?
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Republicans don't like abortion because they don't like women.  They need poor babies so that they can grow up without a decent education so that they can't get jobs leaving a great option....the military!   Republicans need live babies so they can raise them to be dead soildiers.   Most abortions entail a pill and a few days rest not a vacumn cleaner and chopping block slaughter as most republicans would have you believe.  Slaughtering innocent babies happens when smart bombs miss their targets.  Arnt you people supposed to be the party of small government staying out of my life?  You guys sure are hung up on what goes on in my bedroom, at the doctors office and on my phone.
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I suppose about the same time Republicans realize not all Democrats favor abortion rights.  That's the problem with labels.  They are almost always wrong.
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The social debate about abortion is not about the preciousness of life.  Fifty percent of all pregnancies end in abortion, spontaneous abortion, commonly called "miscarriage".  Half of all those babies can be saved through proper prenatal care.  If those opposed to abortion were truly concerned about the preciousness of life, why did they fight so hard to reduce all of the federal funding for free prenatal care to America's poor women?  The very same groups that advocate against a women's right of choice in abortion are the very same groups that oppose free prenatal care.  Spontaneous abortion is a woman's body saying that conditions are not right for a fetus to survive.  There seems to be no outrage about that.  But, if a woman uses her MIND to determine that conditions are not right for a fetus to survive, there is outrage.  The abortion debate is not about the preciousness of life.  It is about who has the right to decide when a life should end.  Traditionally, only men have had that right ( war, capital punishment).  The abortion debate is about keeping women in their place.  That being said, women have only recently, after thousands of years of oppression, had the right to vote and determine the course of their own lives.  How unfortunate that abortion has become their rallying cry because abortion is to good health practice, as bankruptcy is to business.  Abortion is a dangerous, graceless, ugly procedure.  Women are capable of more responsible reproductive health practices.  RN
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I wonder how they can be so against abortion and support Bush bombing babies in Iraq. Do they not know that it happens in any war that innocents die. In answer to your question, they are hipocrits. They believe what ever fits the situation. I am not saying all but most. yes I said most christians are going to church to show off their new suit. Not for any other purpose.
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You raise a perfectly valid point, and one with which I happen to agree. That's why I tend to avoid answering abortion questions. When I do weigh in, however, it is always on the side of choice, simply because the alternative contradicts my fundamental philosophy regarding the rights of the individual in society. It makes not one iota of difference what I personally think of abortion, unless I am directly involved in some way (i.e., I'm the potential father). \n\nMore to the point, however, I don't believe this issue is ANYONE else's business but those parties directly involved. In other words, it NEVER should have become a political or moral issue in the first place. It is an entirely personal and (very) private issue. So, when male politicians and religious leaders jump in with both feet, that's when I get really angry. It could not be any LESS their business, and no amount of sanctimonious moralizing is ever going to change that fact.\n\nOne final point. I think every abortion is a tragedy, but not for the reasons the pro-life zealots say it is. The tragedy is that a young woman is going through personal hell and is making a choice that may well haunt her for the rest of her life. She may be having the abortion for any number of reasons (rape, incest, health dangers, personal choice, whatever) and she will doubtless suffer for whatever decision she makes. That sad fate is plenty bad enough without having perfect bloody strangers blundering in to voice their disapproval on top of all else. \n\nThe bottom line is that this is rightly her decision to make in the end. Sure, if there is a father present who actually wants this child, he should have a say in the outcome. And doctors clearly have some role to play here, too. But how did such a deeply painful and personal choice ever become fodder for hypocritical politicians and pious religious leaders (whose primary responsibility is to preach tolerance, surely)? It is madness, pure madness...
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Because christian fundamentalists don't like the idea of innocent fetuses dying.  \n\nThey are cool with the fact of innocent adults dying in war called "collateral damage" or innocent adults on death row dying with the rationale that "God will sort them out."\n\nAs you can see it is complete BS rationalizations but that's life and politics.
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Abortion is a non issue. Republicans love non issues. They take away from the debate on real issues. The morning after pill makes Abortion a non issue. That pill will be sold. Teens will get it on the Black Market. Republicans who own stock in that pill will make lots of cash. Republican Doctors who do Abortions have made lots of cash from that.
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I was going to say some nastys and get turned into abuse, but I decided to just sit back and watch all the followers of what you say. Sounds like the Michael Moore of Answers. With a question like that how can people who think for them selves answer it? It's people like the religious right that wanted the women of the Taliban to go to work and school again. So how can they be like the Taliban? They are the ones that cried when women in Afghanistan and Iraq showed their purple fingers. The left felt nothing. While those women were celebrating with us on the right, the left were just bashing Bush. So who sounds more like the Taliban? The Lefty's don't want freedom for people shackled in hell. I'll give up my kid to keep people from having their fingernails pulled out slowly one by one. The left kills millions of unborn babies, but that's not genocide is it? Nooooooooo! When your President believed in abortion that wasn't killing. Only Bush kills. Yeah, I know i said i wasn't going to say anything, but you really hit a nerve here.
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I hear your comment, but not even the 3000 thousand that died in the towers equals the deaths from the American military. No death is valid as far as I am concerned. I really believe that America doesn't have the real story. An attack is a valid reason to sign a "Declaration of War," but the Bush Administration doesn't have one. I am concerned about this, as to it doesn't make any sense. Going into Iraq was unwarranted, and once again no "Declaration of War" was signed. This makes America appear to be just as much of a terrorist nation as the attackers. It's not proper etiquette to our Democracy and policies. The Republicans don't believe in Democracy, it is a Republic type of Government that America is being ruled by at the present. I don't agree with these types of policies and the rest of the World is also appalled by the Bush Administrations actions. All of this could lead to a larger Global War I am afraid. I say voting the Republicans out of office in November is Americas only choice at this point. I don't want to die for a small group of red-necks that stir up problems, and wont play a part in the military. My personal feelings that's all.
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Because, the liberals who claim to care about the people, are the ones who are pro-choice.  These people prefer a socialist government too.  In a socialist government what the government considers best for the people as a whole over rides the rights, needs and desires of the people. The maintenence of such a system requires that the government control education.\n\nAt the same time, the emphasis on the group tends to lower the value of individual lives.  When individual life is not valued, the issue of wether or not to have an abortion, or to make a decision of wether or not to take ones life or assist in a suicide becomes a choice of convenience.  If individual life is no longer valued than the decision to end ones own life or the life of another becomes insignificant.  \n\nFor all you pro-choicers out there a "fetus" is a full and complete human being from the moment of conception.  If they were not fully human than something would have to be added to the mix, but science has proven that this does not happen.  Though undeveloped an unborn child is a complete human being.
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You can even take this one step further. Most of those same people who are for abortion are also for assisted suicide and euthenasia of terminally ill people, or people who are too old to care for themselves. Many people think that you have to have a certain quality of life in order to deserve to live. Unplanned babies, the sick, the old, and the dying fit into their ideas of those who don't or won't have a quality of life that's productive. Oh yeah, and that includes another group of people...those who are in a coma and are only hooked up to feeding tubes. They have their feeding tubes pulled out, leaving them to starve to death. Many live for several weeks before dying, with the family watching the whole proceedure, in the name of saving money, but claiming they are giving their "loved" one death with dignity. What's so dignified about starvation? They spout off grand speeches about how they can't bear to see them suffer so much. And that their quality of life doesn't exist anymore. Then, they'll turn around and picket in front of a jail, where a convicted killer is ready to get the needle, dying in peace, having just eaten the greatest meal they'd ever had. Go figure. Abortion is just as senseless, with hundreds of couples waiting for years to adopt a baby. I know a few gals who got abortions...not because they were raped...or because it was a health risk to her or the baby...but because it was inconvenient. They were in school. They didn't want their parents to find out (after all, we just know that their parents will KILL them if they find out, right?). It was just easy to think of their baby as a blob of material, with no identity. I've heard people say that the baby isn't really human until they're born. Really? What is that thing inside of a pregnant woman, a fish, a monkey, a figment of their imagination? Have they really seen the amazing pictures of a baby inside of the mom? Looks human to me. I still have the ultrasound of my daughter and she looks like a baby to me. I guess it all depends on what you believe in...whether you believe in defending the defenseless or supporting the evil. No one has ever explained sufficiently to me the up side of abortion. There is none. Everyone loses. What a huge waste of a human life. <*)))><
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because republican leaders don't fight in wars..... it's the children of the working class the fight and die in wars!!!!!  republicans just like to make wars.... not actually do any fighting!!!!
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War is always horrible, and even one death is more than I want to see.  But you're right.  The news media has made the relatively few deaths from this war seem astounding, when in reality, this is far better than one can expect in a war.  \n\nWar is hell, people!  That's why we try to avoid it.  But this war is nothing like wars in the past.  It is far less costly in human life than most wars we've ever been engaged in.  Get some perspective!\n\nWe can argue over whether we ought to be there or not, but I think when we use the deaths of these courageous young Americans as arguments against fighting, it dishonors their work. When we commit to a war, we know there will be loss of life.  If the loss of life is as low as it has been here, that's wonderful.  It is sad for those who have lost their lives, and for their families, but history tells us that we should have expected it to be much worse.  We should be rejoicing for all the men and women who are ALIVE!\n\nBut, I think some people just like to use emotional arguments to attack the president.
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I don't recall republicans crying when they loose like you saw happen with gore and kerry. When the Republicans swept to power in 94 the media wrote it off as a voter "Temper Tantrum". Republicans normally step down if they are involved in controversy. Dem's on the other hand have really got some brass ones though. My personal favorite is Marion Barry, who was caught on video tape smoking crack at the No Tell Motel\nwith some hooker and the maniac has the audacity to run again. Why not? His constituency voted him back in proving once again the Democrat mentality of, He might be a corrupt dirt bag, but, he's our corrupt dirt bag. The list goes on and on. I have seen it in NJ for ages.
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First we love and support our soldiers . . . but even THEY would feel this is an extreme idea.  No soldier that has seen action would want ANY child to grow up to fight in wars.\n\nOn abortion . . . no one is in a position to judge anyone on this issue.  There is neither good nor bad, there just is . . . and THERE IS ONLY GOOD.\n\nPro-lifers need to support all life, even those who choose not bring another life into this world.\n\nThose who want to procreate need to be supported as well.\n\nwe all have our purpose in life.  Love and support one another.  Stop fighting wars.  Accept PEACE.  :)\n\n\nluvs ya :)
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It is a regular political process.  True, the parties are bickering as usual, but there has always been controversy surrounding new Supreme Court justices.  If everyone's political party was swiched (Bush would become a Democrat, for example), the exact same ranker would be going on.  Justices are the top echelon of the legal system, so they are very important.  Also, they are appointed for life, so you had better make sure you're picking the right guy.  Unfortunately, Mr. Alito is being confirmed during a particularly nasty period of political polarization, so many of the questions and issues aren't real questions, they're sensationalist propaganda from both sides of the isle.  In case you missed the memo, abortion is NOT the only legal question of the day, yet that seems to be what most of the fuss is about.  Lastly, since they are appointed for life, this man has the potential power to influence American jurisprudential thought for perhaps the next 30 or 40 years.  Needless to say, he'll be making rulings long after Bush is gone, and the next guy, and the next guy. He'll also survive Republicans losing their majority in Congress, then gaining it, then losing it, etc.  So essentially, theres a big fuss because they are getting ready to install someone who is going to effecting law (and by extention politics) for many years to come.  I personally think the Court will be fine with Alito because, unlike the talking heads on CNN and FoxNews who seem fixated on abortion and other trivial matters, I've been watching the hearings live and reading the transcripts (I'm a law student), and he actually seems less polarizingly conservative and more qualified than even Republicans are admitting to.
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more sore loser crying from the right.trying to equate the legal act of abortion with the war in Iraq that was started on a lie is ridiculous.your own self righteousness is your undoing.to put this in your terms,its o.k. to kill men, women and children for oil and the financial advancement of your friends at haliburton.But aborting a non-being by legal means in order to not fill the orphanages with unwanted children that the likes of you would never adopt is wrong.brilliant.