Why are people worried about upholding Roe v Wade?
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Because it is the only slim thread that holds them some rights.\n\nIt is of course as everyone knows based on no real constitutional grounds, since it has no real relatonship to right to privacy, which is what it is based on.\n\nit was passed because of political pressure, not good legal grounds,  If actually reviewed by legal standard it would never hold up again.
992461
Good point. Here's my two cents:\n\n- Rape happens; many of us can't stop that from happening.\n- Health matters; I'm on the fence with this response.\n\n**But women wanting to kill off their own offsprings because they:\n\n- can't support a child financially\n- got boned by her ex and refuses to keep the baby\n- wanted to have sex, but didn't use birth control, and doesn't want a kid....\n\nthese women should be DENIED TREATMENT.\n\nWhy? Because their idiots for not keeping their legs closed and not using protection.\n\nHonestly, these women shouldn't have kids AT ALL. They don't show any signs of responsibility to raise any child.\n\n**To the women who I want to deny abortions to:\n\nI refuse to apologize, so go f*** yourselves (literally)
471273
Two unrelated issues.\n\nOne, should people have abortions. That's entirely dependent on your personal religious/moral beliefs, and what you think is right/wrong or proper/improper based on way too many specific circumstances (married/unmarried, adult/teen, possible rape/incest, how late in the term, etc.) The bottom line is that many people have very passionate ideas about whether it is right/appropriate or not.\n\nThe second issue is who gets to make those choices. I think it's a great thing that people are allowed to have thoughts and beliefs on the subject. I think it's wrong for any group to enforce their moral/religious opinions/beliefs on someone else. Just because 51% percent of the population may happen to believe something is a sin is no reason to force that religious belief on the other 49% who disagree.\n\nPersonally, I'm opposed to abortion except in certain limited circumstances. But that's my own personal belief system, and I'll do everything in my power to ensure that someone who disagrees with me is still allowed to make their own choice, based on what they belief.
965277
Rape and medical reasons in my view are the only exceptions. Yes, rare cases will be accepted in other places, but I think we should entrust our best interests on that issue to the discretion of the judges who deal with these anti and pro abortion rallies.
430519
Winston Churchill was an unwanted pregnacy\nAbortion kills an innocent\nThere are people craving to adopt children\nThe tax base and the social security base has been cut to shreads since abortion was made legal\nIt should have never become law, because the Supreme Court over stepped it's authority by usurping the legislative process.
704046
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
745219
In America today, and every election in our history, a man cannot win a presidential election without being religious.  Democrat or Republican, they all at least "say" they are religious.  People say theocracy to scare people into thinking social conservatism is trying to legislate the Bible into the constitution and institute a form of government similar to the dictatorships in the middle east.  This, however, is not true.  Pro-life is more than just Bible talk.  If people don't understand this, they don't understand their opposition, they are ignorant of the argument, and not qualified to argue their own position.  Same goes with gay marriage.  Gay marriage is a social concern, not a religious concern.  Same goes with any other social legislation.  Liberal scare tactics at its best, make up inaccurate words that make people think consequences of things will be different than what they actually are.  Theocracy, conservatism (sounds scary, doesn't it?), conspiracy theories and the like.  Its all garbage, and they know it.  Its to be ignored, nothing more
729975
Ain't that the truth\n\n They will kill their own baby and fight for the right to have abortions done later on in the pregnancy. \n\nBut they are against the death penalty and they fight for a killers rights.
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Everyone I personally know who is pro-choice disapproves of abortion. But it's not an issue of whether they think abortion is good or not.\n\nIt's an issue of whether the majority has the right to force the decision as a matter of law, and take that decision away from the individual. The whole debate is about WHO gets to make the choice.\n\nDo you know why China can mandate abortions and force sterilizations? Because reproductive choice is not a guaranteed right. Abortion is legal in the US because the Supreme Court has determined that reproductive rights are fundamental, and thus constitutionally protected. \n\nIf the Supreme Court decides that reproductive rights are not fundamental rights, and that the government gets to choose regardless of what the individual wants, then the government makes all the decisions. Try to imagine what could happen, if all reproductive rights are now subject to govt control.\n\nNew York or Florida could pass a law saying that anyone making less than $30K per year cannot have children, and must abort any pregnancy, because they obviously cannot support them financially. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer protected. \n\nOr North Carolina or Texas decides that convicted felons should never have children, and starts imposing mandatory sterilization as part of criminal sentences. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected. \n\nOnce the right to reproductive privacy is taken away by the court, it will be decades before it can be reestablished. Conservatives better start praying, if they get their wish, that during that time they don't become the minority under a legislation that decides to require abortions. Because, once that right to personal choice is lost, the government will always be able to decide whether you can have children or not.\n\nDo you really want to abdicate that much of your personal freedom and choice to a group of politicians? Do people really want to live in a country where state legislatures can decide who can be pregnant, and who cannot, and who must? Do people really have that much trust and faith in government that they think the legislature will always make the right choices? Because we'll be stuck with those decisions.\n\nThe concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.\n\nWhy can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
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Because it's their right to do so.  There are people that believe life begins at conception. Roe v. Wade was bad law anyway because the Supreme Court usurped the power of the Legislative branch and has at times usurped the states rights to restrict abortion.  There is no right to privacy in the constitution.\n\nPlus abortion violates the hippocratic oath that doctors take:\n swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:\n\nTo hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.\n\nI will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice. \n\nI will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.\n\nI will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.\n\nWhatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.\n\nWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.\n\nIf I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
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I think there is a lot of political expediency when it comes to abortion from both the "Pro-life" and "Pro-choice" camps.\n\nYou already mentioned the inconsistencies of the Pro-life politicians, but isn't it equally crap that you get Pro-choice politicians who say that they are personally opposed to abortion, but think it should remain "safe, legal, and rare" ? If someone believes it's wrong to get an abortion, the only thing that could make it wrong, is that it is taking a life. And if it is takng a life, then shouldn't it be outlawed ?\n\nSo I think there are many inconsistencies one could find in everyone's arguments.\n\nI myself am opposed to abortion, but am pragmatic. Less is better than more, but none would be optimum. I doubt the American public would ever support a ban on all abortions. The rape, incest, endangered mother's life, deformed baby argument as being the only exceptions I can live with because the vast majority of abortions are simply "late" birth control.
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no one loves abortion, and the women who have them usually are making the right choice.lets talk republican shall we? your so focused on abortion, you are latting our country go broke. you dont want welfare? so let a bunch of people have kids they cant take care of. oh and while your out being conservitave your kids are out getting high on meth and getting impregnated by strangers.
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you know I am not the type of person that really has a problem with other people having their own opinion, but this is just outrageous.. on the web huh?? I has 3 miscarriages before my first son was born and I can tell you that they were most definitely not fully formed. It looked like a mass of blood, there was no shape. AND what about women who have been the victims of rape/incest or have medical problems and may die if they continue with the pregnancy ? Force a woman to carry a baby for 9 moths and remind her of a brutal rape??? Or force her to face eminent death ?? Come on now, be reasonable, most pro-choice people are and don't try to jam their beliefs down your throat, why do you insist on jamming yours down everyone Else's??\n\nAdditional:\n\nTo Orchid, I NEVER told YOU that your daughter was a blob of tissue, I was very upset when I miscarried my first 3 pregnancies as well. I just said , I SAW it, I didn't have it  "sucked" out like you stated, it came out in my own home and although it may have had limbs, it looked like a mass of blood, or a huge blood clot. You see, I would personally never have an abortion, but I DON'T believe you or anyone else has the right to tell me I must carry a baby that was the product of rape, etc because it's "murder" if I don't. You cry adoption, etc. that is your opinion and I respect your opinion, I however know that there are millions of children that are still waiting to be adopted. You have your opinion and I have mine, no need to attack me, as I did not attack anyone either. Respect me and I respect you. We live in a diverse world. How is it ok for you to say woman can't say it's their bodies, but you want to inflict your own values and outlaw abortion?
116979
absolutely nothing. people like to order other people around based on their beliefs. abortion and gay marriage are things that really don't effect us on a day-to-day basis, but they are highly controversial opinionated topics that are the base of the conservative platform.
871174
because they don't want to be wrong. to them it's more about pride and "winning" than about saving lives or anything noble.
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It's considered ok in rape cases because it's too painful for the woman. It's a constant reminder every day for 9 months of that terrible situation. It is too hard on her emotional mental well-being. You can't worry about the fetus and ignore the feelings and needs of the already living, breathing human that already has a life she needs to live. That's immoral too.\n\nI'm pro-choice too by the way.
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This is an interesting point because pro-abortion people always ingore the fact that a newborn can't survive on it's own either.\n\nIt's not about a woman's rights, it's about killing babies. That's it. Some people would rather rip a babies body apart with a suction tube than take a birth control pill.\n\n(now watch, some lib will post something about rape and insest as though more than just a few abortions are as a result of rape and insest)