In his blog, Uncommon Sense, Steve Ruis examines the hypocrisy of abortion advocates, who insist that everyone must be subject to their religious beliefs. They claim that they believe in the sanctity of life, yet many don’t oppose the death penalty.
Many love school choice yet oppose a woman’s choice about her body. Anti-vaxxers carry signs saying “My body, my choice,” yet fight to prevent women from having a choice about their bodies, even in cases of rape and incest.
For many years, we have had a policy of respect for all religions, so long as their precepts don’t harm anyone else or themselves. If your religion forbids abortion, don’t get one. If your religion is silent on the subject, your decision should not be made by others.
The sad thing about the “pro-life” movement is that they care passionately about the unborn, but are frequently indifferent to the well-being of the born.
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Yes, and of course not all those politicians fighting abortion actually care. It’s a bit complicated. The Republicans actually stand for more power/money to the wealthy, but they can’t run on that. So they stoke up various issues, real and imagined, to cobble together enough votes in enough electoral states, or enough votes in enough state legislatures to run the country as a minority. Why? We can’t say for sure, without reading their “minds,” but apparently more money for the wealthy, wealthy rich, and more power to their toady politicians. Right to life is as bogus as their concern about women in the Middle East. Or “Christian” values here at home. It’s the same with guns. The guns/munitions industries fund their campaigns, so they like guns over people. Our problem is that they are better organized and funded than us, they are less scrupulous, and they have much more media power. Remember, almost all TV, radio, newspapers are controlled by rich white men who will often do almost anything to stay in charge. In the end, it’s mostly about money and power–not women’s rights, one way or another.
Just another instance of wealthy white men working to diminish women and minorities to show everyone they have the power to do whatever they want. Enough already!
Part of me has always wished Roe v. Wade never existed, and that abortion was handled on a state level. People who valued abortion rights would move to states that ensured them. Many people lack the means and will to move, and that would be awful. But at least it might remove abortion as a factor forever warping national politics.
Long ago I also thought that “morning after pill” technology would reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies enough to significantly lower the stakes of this debate. That doesn’t seem to have happened.
The GOP argument that abortion should be handled at the state level is a smokescreen. If Roe v Wade is overturned and abortion becomes a state issue I absolutely guarantee that the next move for these people will be to begin working on a national anti-abortion law. I believe that is, and always has been, their ultimate goal.
Probably right.
The Texas law is a contrivance to make abortion a state issue. Women do not even know they are pregnant at six weeks, and by the time they get confirmation, it will be too late to terminate a pregnancy. Unless the Democrats can come up with a brilliant work around, more red states will be coming out with copycat laws to restrict a woman’s right to choose, This law will mostly hurt poor women that do not have the means to travel. As far as the right of total strangers to sue anyone that helps a woman get an abortion, I cannot quite wrap my head around this Orwellian aspect of this so-called law and how it can be enforced.
Mexico, the second most Catholic country in the world, just legalized abortion by court order.
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“The next move” is elimination of pharmaceutical birth control. The USCCB gave $2 mil. to a clinic that promotes a calendar method exclusively. The Mayo Clinic describes rhythm methods as having a 25% failure rate. The clinic that received the donation has been described by its supporters as a proposed replacement for Planned Parenthood.
Mexico may anticipate a financial windfall from abortion services provided to Americans.
Early in her legal career, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote an article endorsing the view that abortion was a state isssue. As I recall, she argued that making it a national issue would generate an intense backlash.
However, if women have a right to privacy, the decision to terminate an unwanted pregnancy should be between the woman and her doctor and should not be banned by other people.
Flerp….the cretins who are pushing the anti abortion issue are the same cretins who also wish to deny others access to birth control methods, including the “morning after pill”. These same cretins are also the ones fighting against sex education curriculum in public schools.
None of this nonsense is really about “abortion” at all. It’s about (mostly) white, rich men maintaining control, power and wealth. Patriarchy is rearing it’s ugly head. Women (and the men who fight for women’s rights) better get out the green/purple/white ribbons and start displaying them proudly (colors of the Women’s Suffrage movement).
The Supreme Court won’t touch this! I wonder if Amy Coney-Barrett is regretting her appointment to the SCOTUS? She should now know that she was “used” by men in power. Her vote really matters for women’s rights in general. If she votes to overturn Roe v Wade, it will set women’s rights backwards (at least 50 yrs) and that would mean that she would be disgracing the women (and some men) who made it possible for her to attend school, vote, get a law degree, and to have a law career that lead to her appointment to the highest court in the land.
I will eat my hat on this blog if this law comes before SCOTUS on the merits and SCOTUS doesn’t strike it down.
Amy Coney Barrett has no regrets. She has written and spoken against abortion for years and belongs to a cult that opposes abortion.
Clarence Thomas doesn’t regret the harm he’s done to the rights of people of color. He knew that his advancement, prior to the SCOTUS appointment, was the result of liberal policy and laws. He chose to serve those who rewarded him with the judgeship and his wife with income from the Koch/Weyrich Heritage Foundation. Pulling up, after him, the ladder that he climbed was as easy for him as it is easy for
Barrett.
For those that oppose the termination of a pregnancy, the morning after pill is just as much a termination of life as a late term abortion. This in and of itself is an indictment of their true intention. What they really mean to do is to take power from women, leaving it in the hands of men and the women who agree withh that group. All this is about power. Otherwise the opponents of abortion rights would be strongly in favor of universal health care and would recognize that the most effective way to prevent pregnancy would appear to be to promote birth control.
The same people who now oppose abortion used to oppose any kind of contraception.
They still do.
Robert P. George, National Organization for Marriage founder, reviewed and reported that some opposition to birth control is based on the conclusion it makes people promiscuous. NOM’s lawyer was Cleta Mitchell who has links to Koch and to 2020 election criticisms. John Eastman, who was on the dais with Rudy Giuliani on Jan. 6, is a NOM board member. Robert P. George authored the Manhattan Declaration signed by the Catholic bishops of 15 major U.S. cities.
Wikipedia has an entry for the Manhattan Declaration.
The GOP has morphed into a party from hell overflowing with ghouls, zombies and vampires, (Lindsey Graham, Marjorie T. Greene, Louie Gohmert, Mitch McConnell, Madison Cawthorn, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Trump, etc., ad nauseam), shambling down the avenues and by-ways of the country ready to suck the brains out of mere mortals. In a pinch, they’ll settle for gnawing on an elbow or aorta of Democrat. The party of no: no abortion for you, no voting for you, no health care for you, no unions, no gay rights for you and so on.
Even if the end game isn’t to craft an national anti-abortion law, too many people cannot afford to move or travel for abortion services. Heck, there was a slew of people who rode out Ida in Louisiana who had no transportation to evacuate and no money for hotel accommodations if they could evacuate. I really don’t understand the long term game plan. Increase the population of struggling people and kill them off when you deny social services?! The hypocrisy is staggering.
Louisiana and Florida are two states that are trying to cobble their own version of this dystopian law. Poor women in South Texas will wind up going to Mexico, which, by the way, just decriminalized abortion. This, of course, comes with increased risk as well.
From NPR dot org: quote – Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion as a crime, a landmark ruling that clears the way for the legalization of abortion across the country.
The court took up the issue on Monday when eight of 11 justices voted to revoke a law in the state of Coahuila that punished women with up to three years in prison for having an abortion — even in cases of rape. The other three justices joined in the decision Tuesday, declaring such laws unconstitutional.
“Today is a historic day for the rights of all Mexican women,” said Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar on Tuesday. end quote
Mexico has a more enlightened supreme court than the US and with 11 justices. I guess it’s not loaded up with right wing conservatives.
I just read that a peculiar work around may come from a group called the Satanic Temple. They are a religion that considers body autonomy a religious tenet. They may be able to provide women with access to the abortion pill up to ten weeks of pregnancy.https://www.upworthy.com/satanic-temple-abortion-texas
Retired teacher….I read the article. This S__T just keeps getting stranger and stranger! My mother always told me not to make deals with “the devil”. With everything going on, I feel like I’m living in the late 60’s/early 70’s again. Scary then, scary now.
Abort Sin
If Satan had been aborted
Then Adam wouldna sinned
And wouldn’t have consorted
With evil such as him
Hummnm, could more future voters and worker bees of the “right” kind be the goal? I find it difficult to take much of what’s going on politically at face value. Sad that the law
will impact the lives of people in such drastic ways.
This is exactly why teaching students to think independently and to weigh the merit of all choices is important so they not to become blinded and paralyzed by these emotional issues.
Birth control is perceived by some among the right wing religious as contributing to promiscuity. IMO, the argument is aimed at women. Men are granted dispensation whether it’s “boys will be boys” thinking or Biblical examples like King David.
The reason that the publicly-stated claims from right wing religious about birth control and promiscuity don’t find their way into media is that the conservative religious are protected. The protection is based on excuses like big tent and on realities like anticipated negative tribal responses.
Is this about abortion advocates or anti-abortion advocates?
It’s about the reality of coat hangars as the only alternative that some women believe they have. It’s about children losing their mothers to botched backroom abortions. And, it’s about the criminalization of medical treatment for women who require D&C’s to avoid toxic shock syndrome from fetuses that die naturally in utero.
The Hypocritic Loaf
An oath that’s hippocratic
Is what the doctors take
A loaf that’s hypocritic
Is what the “pro-life” bake
A loaf
There’s a few expressions which reflects these points:
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
You can dish it out but you can’t take it.