Strollerderby

Who does this Obama guy think he is, really? Women asking for healthcare when they need it! For themselves and their own bodies? What will they want next, equal pay for equal work? The right to wear pants? The right to be single? Or own property? What IS this country coming to?

awwww they didnt have anything else to bitch about today so they had to go there. Poor sad sad human beings. They want unwanted babies to grow up and be as miserable as they are? really?

I think i'll go to krispy kreme today.

I am amused by the repeated use of the word "radical." As though repetition will make it appropriate or accurate. Uh, guys: something is only "radical" if the majority of people disagree, and Obama is nothing if not middle of the road on this subject.

Also: I wish there was a Krispy Kreme around here.

I really wish there was a Krispy Kreme near me too.

Yeah, the anti-abortion side really was stupid on this one.

But President Obama did vote for late term abortion on demand.  And I'm sorry unless someone is going to die here (the mother), that's murder.  (And yes, I have been on the wrong end of a positive pregnancy test.)  Twelve weeks....if you can't make your mind up by then, well then too bad.  

And I've never met an unwanted child.  Really.  For every baby born there's a line of people who would love to adopt said child.  That's another choice.  

That being said, our local Krispy Kreme went out of business about 2 years ago, or I'd be all for choosing a donut.

Sheri: no abortion provider in the United States provides "late-term abortions on demand." Providers who perform late-term abortions even when the mother's life is threatened or the fetus is too ill to survive are few and far between, to the point at which a true story appeared in the Boston Globe a few years back about a woman whose child had died in the womb at (seven? eight? nine?) months and it took days to even find a provider who was willing to remove the very-much-wanted child from her body.

The only circumstances I can think of in which late-term abortions on a fetus that is likely to survive are performed more than rarely are in the case of Down Syndrome. As far as I know, there aren't many solid numbers on how common this is, but I agree with you that this is morally fraught. On the other hand, it's pretty different from "abortion on demand," and while I might not agree with a woman's decision to terminate at that juncture, there but for the grace of god go I - I would not deny her the right to choose.

These, and the late-term abortions in which the mother's life is endangered, are the abortions Obama voted to allow. The nightmare vision of a nine-months-pregnant woman walking into Planned Parenthood and saying "I changed my mind" - doesn't happen. Can't happen. Literally impossible.

I love it when these right wing looneys get up in arms about nonsense as it helps me know who to support and peeve them off. Just like when they try and censor something we never would have heard of if they hadn't made such a stink.