| To the Editor: Pro-Life march to D.C. got little news coverage |
| Written by Carol Tyson |
| Wednesday, 01 February 2012 09:34 |
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On Jan. 23, 400,000 people marched from the Washington Monument to the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Thousands in cities across the country gathered in solidarity. What about this is unnewsworthy? Mainstream media gave little to no coverage. The marchers were united in purpose - right to life for every human being. Pro-Life groups have marched since abortion became legalized. The Pro-Life movement has recognized the unborn child is not the only victim with each abortion. Abortion hurts women, men, and families. There are long range studies indicating significant relationships between abortion and medical and emotional problems for women and evidence of emotional effects on fathers of aborted children.
Those agreeing with legalized abortion consider themselves Pro-Choice. There is a true choice only when one is given all the options' pros and cons. Pro-Choice activists often voice opposition to showing ultrasounds of the unborn child to the mother. The largest provider of abortions is Planned Parenthood. Are they also the largest providers of adoption services? Is the woman struggling between abortion and parenting given information about how she can get support to parent? Is each abortion really a choice between a woman and her doctor? Women usually first see the doctor who will perform the abortion when he/she is performing the procedure. An early argument was that when abortion is accessible, there should be less child abuse and neglect. This has not happened. We are witnessing a devastating turn in the value of human life. Some children are being aborted based on gender or on the possibility they may have medical problems. If we do not care for the most vulnerable among us, none of us can be assured of care. Carol Tyson Bowling Green |
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Comments like this really worry me about societies morals and regard for human life.
At one time leaders of Germany considered the Jewish people as "non-persons".
QUALITY of life is more important than QUANTITY of life.
When will you anti-choice religious fanatics get it into your empty little heads that woman have the right to control their own bodies?
There's an old saying: "If men could become pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!"
Although I find your respect for life morally repugnant, that a fetus is not a human until the mother says it is, I do like the ideology behind it, and think we can implement it in to make our lives better. For instance, if I don't think a law should pertain to me, I should not have to obey it; or if I think the speed limit is too low, I can exceed it without any repercussion; Or if I find a tax too intrusive on my freedom to keep my money, I should not have to pay it. You may have something here.
I find your disregard for women's reproductive rights morally repugnant.
What happens in a medical setting is privy only between patient and doctor, regardless of public or private funding, and thus it will remain. Armies of women have and will fight for that forever.
Just because two people create a pregnancy, does NOT make them qualified parents. NOR does it require a female to carry to term. Nor will it.
I have never met a pregnant woman who did not have her own feelings about it LONG LONG before even 6 months.
Have, you, Mr. Jacob, Sir?
What if the woman, is one of these: homeless, addicted to drugs, suffering from psychological problems, without a partner, abused, underage, can't handle kids, etc, etc, or just plain is NOT ready, what then, sir? Shall society FORCE her to carry to term? Have we not enough unwanted and neglected children?
The fact you never met a pregnant woman "who didn't have her own feelings about it" doesn't mean women "proclaim" prior to birth or after. Humans can be very indecisive.
It is true not all people are as fickle as I suggest. However not all people are as decisive as you propose.
*SIDE NOTE*
I am a father.
Side note: I'm a parent as well. My child was a CHOICE and NOT a FORCED CHOICE. She is quite proud of that.
The mother's mental, physical, economic or social status doesn't determine personhood of a fetus either. The fact children are neglected or "unwanted" also doesn't determine the status of personhood.
The debate is when during the development is personhood achieved?
counterproducti ve.
However, I do appreciate your willingness to voice your opinions.
I do not appreciate your willingness to pre-judge the medical needs of my sister, daughter, or other women.
Are you a foster parent?
If Jacob *is* a foster parent, then all the power to him, especially if the child is disabled, has AIDS, or born drug addicted or has Alcohol Fetal Syndrome.
Most likely though, he's like virtually every other anti-choice fanatic -- turned the fetus into a fetish and when the object of his desire is born, then all interest is lost, and the mother is left on her own.
Those who are the most vocal in opposition to reproductive choice are those who will *never* become pregnant. They are also heavily involved in the religious reicht, which has been extremely misogynistic for thousands of years.
To attempt to dictate how a women may live is the height of cowardice and fear. Men who are involved with this movement are afraid to the political and social power of women and always have been.
I'll I have done on this forum is question the logic of stating the human rights of a fetus is given by the mother not regarding fetal development.
I also question your comparison of a miscarriage and an abortion. You suggested they are one in the same which I felt was a poor analogy given one is natural and the other artificial.
Name-calling and assumptions are a hindrance to dialoging.
I've worked daily directly in the trenches with pregnant women. Believe me, no one makes their decisions about their bodies lightly, regardless of your inaccurate assessment of social or personality traits.
If the Mandatory Motherhood Mob gets their way and bans ALL abortions, who are you going to jail if a woman has a miscarriage -- god?
In fact, according to some estimates, two-thirds of ALL fertilized eggs *never* attach to the uterus and are flushed outside the body during her period.
The act should be limited to the woman, her physician, and her conscience... *period*!
Should a woman be forced to go to her rapist or the family member who molested her for permission to end her pregnancy, Jacob? Are you *that* sick and fanatical?
Sadly, evil exist and rape and molestation do happen. That doesn't give anyone the right to limit the unalienable rights of another human.
A developing fetus DOES NOT have Constitutional rights. The IDEA of a person is not a person. Your absurd equation of abortion with murder is ignorant, dangerous, and has dire consequences for human and civil rights. (Which are to be accorded to the living.)
Did you even try to wrap your head around the simple equation of Quality over Quantity?
FETAL TISSUE IS NOT A HUMAN UNTIL THE MOTHER CHOOSES TO BE A MOTHER. How hard is it to grasp that simple concept? You allow women no dignity or autonomy over THEIR OWN BODIES.
Also: Jacob: you are a male (by name). Your argument is moot.
Jacob, honey... the minute you can become pregnant from and unwanted sexual encounter is when you and the rest of the fanatics can have a say in abortion.
Take your misogyny and your hatred of women's rights and head back to your cathedrals where it belongs, and NOT in the public arena!
Are you suggesting that we no longer use medical tools? Are you insane?
Stop going to YOUR doctor, then. Pray away your next illness. I, on the other hand, will continue to encourage and promote full and comprehensive healthcare for women that includes options for aborting pregnancies... With medical science.
I think artificial abortions should be illegal.
I have a different view from you. I truly think a human is a human from the earliest stages of their development.
During our discussion, I never made direct insults about you. I wish you would have follow suit.
Illegal abortions would destroy many many women, as history has shown.
Your view is scary, incorrect, backwards, and inhumane. It is baseless, especially if it is based on a false sense of religion or morality.
I have no problem if I insulted a person as backwards as that.
*YOU* will never become pregnant and you do NOT foster unwanted children. Thus, I have no interest in 'dialogue' with such an irrelevant and backward ideology. You are sick. I am appalled at the the implications of your thinking. Frankly, you disgust me.
It's ok. You're a shrinking minority and this is the 21st century and we have medical science. THAT is a progression you cannot stop with 12th century morality.
Next thing you'll see is the MMM wanting to go back in time to where women coudn't vote or own businesses!
Typical chauvanism to the core!
You look at an aborted child and call it good. You look at the people who call it unbelievably disgusting and call them sick. Your moral compass is so screwed up I doubt you could find your way to your own conscience. It is abnormal behavior of the highest (or lowest) degree to kill your own young and worse to call it good or legal.
The bully boys of the religious reicht have *constantly* been afraid of the political and social power of women -- from the right to vote, to working for pay outside the home, owning property and/or operating a business, to the creation of domestic violence laws, blaming women for being victims of rape and sexual assault, ad nauseum.
Since Roe v. Wade it is estimated that 50 million abortions have been performed in the US.
That's 50 million kids that "never got a chance to grow up, never got a chance to be kool".
That's why these misogynist fanatics fought against suffrage, women being considered human, women working outside the home, women learning a profession such as doctors, lawyers, and such; women in traditional male occupations, women athletes... the list is endless!
That old woman, if suffering, should have comprehensive medical care that includes dignified death. A woman facing a medical situation deserves the same dignity.
Kormen suspended financial support to PP because PP is under federal investigation. Kormen's set of standards prohibit funding of organization under federal judicial investigation. PP is under such investigation.
PP is not a provider of mammograms, it gives referrals.
Kormen gave PP $600k last year in donation, amounting to only 3% of PP billion dollar budget. Seems like they would hardly miss it.
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