- The ongoing absolutism in Congress in trying to prevent
women-or at least poor women-from obtaining abortions is one of the more
shameful spectacles in America.
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- The sanctimonious Blue Dog Democrats and the Republicans,
who almost unanimously opposed any right to abortion, present two basic
arguments. One is that abortion is murder, and therefore must be illegal,
or, in more nuanced form, they say that they or their constituents oppose
abortion and therefore it is wrong to have their tax money paying for the
procedure.
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- Of course, for most of those who argue that abortion
is murder, there is a towering hypocrisy in the fact that with rare exceptions,
those who argue this view also support capital punishment, which is also
murder. Furthermore, given the über-conservative political stance
of most such people, they also tend to unquestioningly support America's
wars on Third World peoples-wars which inevitably lead to the mass slaughter
of innocent men, women and children-support the use of lethal American
weapons, from nuclear bombs to anti-personnel fragmentation shells and
bombs to depleted uranium shells and mines, which kill adults and children,
soldiers and civilians indiscriminately, and support cuts in social services
that leave American kids hungry, malnourished and without needed medical
care, which leads to many untimely deaths. But even for those people-some
liberal Catholics, for example--who may be consistent in their opposition
to state-sponsored murder and killing, there is an unwillingness to address
the central problem with opposing abortion: namely that women will get
abortions whether they are legal or not, the only difference being that
one way, they are likely to die or be seriously injured in the process,
while the other way, the process can be done safely...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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