Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts

Monday, December 15, 2014

Ohio Just Defeated an Extreme Abortion Ban, but Don't Get Too Comfortable | Jennifer Dalven

Ohio Just Defeated an Extreme Abortion Ban, but Don't Get Too Comfortable | Jennifer Dalven


Last week, the Ohio House voted on legislation that was breathtaking in its extremism: It would have banned all abortions after six weeks -- before many women even know they're pregnant.

First the good news: Legislators voted down the bill. That's a real and important victory for women in Ohio, and it does represent some progress. After all, the same legislation passed the House in 2011 before failing in the Senate.

But I'm just not able to get too excited about this. Yes, they defeated the ban, but celebrating the defeat of such an obviously terrible proposal is a hollow victory. While it's certainly good for the women of Ohio that the bill didn't advance, make no mistake about it: Extreme politicians remain fully committed to doing whatever they can to make sure that a woman can't get an abortion when she needs one.

 After their failure in Ohio, and the crushing defeat of similar measures suffered on election night, they might change their approach.

But one thing you can be sure of: They haven't changed their goal.

Monday, September 22, 2014

BarbWire: Miss America Winner Contributes To Violence, Destruction of The Country | Right Wing Watch

BarbWire: Miss America Winner Contributes To Violence, Destruction of The Country | Right Wing Watch


BarbWire columnist Luke Douglas is joining other conservatives who have expressed outrage that Kira Kazantsev, the recently-crowned Miss America, once worked as an education intern at a Long Island Planned Parenthood clinic. 
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So, now I invite you to take a first-hand look at what some in America's Christian-Right minority think is Christianity marching on to save the world!--ABratt


“The crusader of the largest abortion provider in the nation now the face of America? We shouldn’t be surprised,” Douglas said, before arguing that Planned Parenthood has contributed to the “pernicious deterioration” of America, with increased cases of rape and murder, as “a sexual revolution begun in the name of liberty has brought us to violence and confusion.”
This week’s newly crowned Miss America, 2015 is said to represent everything America believes in. Kira Kazantsev rose through the ranks of the competition: first as Miss New York, then singing “Happy” to win the national crown, then to represent our identity, our values, and our future as Miss America. As the crowds cheered with joy at her achievements, America took heart in knowing that our future is in the able hands of a new [...]






Monday, July 14, 2014

How Conservative Evangelicals Went From Not Caring About Abortion......


Slate: Contraception: How conservative evangelicals went from not caring about abortion and birth control to being obsessed with them.


What does the Bible say about abortion?

Exodus 21: 22-24 ERV : 22 “Two men might be fighting and hurt a pregnant woman. This might make the woman give birth to her baby before its time. If the woman was not hurt badly,[e] the man who hurt her must pay a fine. The woman’s husband will decide how much the man must pay. The judges will help the man decide how much the fine will be. 23 But if the woman was hurt badly, then the man who hurt her must be punished. The punishment must fit the crime. You must trade one life for another life. 24 You must trade an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, 25 a burn for a burn, a bruise for a bruise, a cut for a cut.

In its challenge to the “contraception mandate” of the Affordable Care Act, Hobby Lobby claims that certain forms of birth control—Plan B, “ella,” and IUDs—induce abortion and therefore go against the owners’ religious beliefs. The government’s response is that none of these contraceptives ends a pregnancy. Rather, they prevent implantation in the uterine lining.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

With Upcoming Discussion on Limiting Abortion Rights, the Personal Is Political | Rep. Karen Bass

ABratt's favorite reader comment from this article:

"No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" Since they want this and so many other restrictions so bad and because they always claim that a fetus is a person then why has not one personhood anti choice politician ever proposed a bill that will allow a woman to claim a fetus as a dependent on their income taxes? If "life" begins at conception (as they all claim) then a woman should be able to have that deduction. Just ask that question next time. Whenever I ask it I hear because the child has not been born. Kinda kills their argument.16 JAN 6:22 AM
Read more:
 With Upcoming Discussion on Limiting Abortion Rights, the Personal Is Political | Rep. Karen Bass

Thursday, July 11, 2013

So This Is The Party Of Family Values And GOD'S Only People aka The GOP!

North Carolina Becomes Ground Zero For GOP Cowardice And Contempt...

Jonathan Weiler:
For a clear sense of what the Republican Party has in store for the entire country, were it able to get its clutches on all the levers of power, North Carolina is becoming an increasingly illuminating place to look. With the election of the allegedly "moderate" Pat McCrory as governor last November, the Republican takeover of state government was complete. And in six short months, motivated by willful ignorance, spite and contempt, the party has cut a category-five hurricane swathe of destruction through the state, the damage from which could take years to undo. Tar Heel Republicans have, among other things, rejected Medicaid expansion,...

Read the complete article from HP here...