We are the constituents, we need to voice our opinions and concerns to our elected officials. Example: It's like when we have children, we don't let them fend for themselves when they are new borns, we have to nurture and care for them, same with the PEOPLE we elect. they don't turn into perfection, lol we all know that right? We have to keep on them. I learned long ago that the "Squeaky Wheel get the Grease" they get tired of hearing from you and eventually it gets put into law.

so while we are badgering this or that person running for office, we need to remember that all the stuff they say, is all talk until they get into office. What have the Republicans done about Partial Birth Abortions???? NOTHING! Heck who decided that corporations would get tax breaks for closing down factories, our friends and family left without jobs, only to move those factories overseas? The republicans.

but we also live in a free world right? well not as much as before but pretty much we do, that means FREE for ALL not just this or that group.

one thing i have learned about politics is that of all the people out there running for office today, Obama is for Change and nothing was said about Change until he pronounced or am i missing something completely?

Just out of curiosity, how would you personally interpret this portion of scripture?

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:14-15)

"For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you." (Matthew 7:2)

Lets just use this example also shall we? I do not know if you have a daughter. That is none of my business of course. If you dont, this could be a hypothetical situation or else ANY female who is close to you in your life. What if she was hurting and felt the need to confide in you the experience of her abortion? How would you personally react to that situation as a "good Christian"?

I think if you have adopted a baby or child you may have a point, but if you have not then what you say is practically meaningless because you haven't put your money where your mouth is.
If you also believe in the death penalty, and are against any form of gun control then your hypocrisy is all over the map.

Ok, do you know what its illegal to sell your organs on the black market? Because you don't own them according to law. I remember an article about a girl dieing of a terminal illness and her mom needing a heart transplant. She tried to will her mother her heart, but she couldn't because it is not considered property. When you die and you are an organ and tissue donor, it belongs to the state.

As for abortion, its not your body you are doing something too, its someone elses.

Obama is pro choice, but against late term partial birth abortions.

It seems to me if the choice remained in the hands of the woman and she had access to a safe and legal procedure at the time that she required it, we would not have nearly as many instances of later term abortion when it becomes much more dangerous and evasive. In effect, the situation is being created.

<<<Pro women's rights.

It isn't just factories. I work for an international telecommunications company and I watched part of my team get laid because the company wanted to hire people in India to replace them. Then I got to help train the new team in India. Over and over and over when people kept quitting and new people were hired.

You never addressed her question posed to you. You feel that a rapist should be held accountable for not only the rape itself but also the impregnation of the victim.

If the rapist is caught, tried and found guilty, he will most assuredly be sentenced to a substantial term in prison. I hope we are in agreement this is the best outcome as it eliminates him from the streets where he would be free to attack more women.

How can we now hold him "accountable" as you put it, to that victim and her baby which you are forcing her to now bring to term? Let me explain a couple aspects of prison life to you. Sex offenders are very often not allowed to work due to the high level of risk that they will be attacked by other inmates. They very often end up housed in protective custody. Let’s say he is allowed to work from his cell, some states do not pay the prisoners for their labors. Texas is one such state. Even if he was paid, .50 an hour working in a machine shop simply wont cut it. How can he support that mother and baby now? Why would he want to as it in fact earned him a long term ticket up the pike?

Now say the rapist is never caught which is the more likely circumstance to occur. That means he is left on our streets to attack more women. Potentially causing more forcible pregnancies. Yet, according to you, since every sperm is sacred, ALL of these victims will be forced to deliver and care for their rapists' infants.
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That must have caused some HR issues...

Obviously I meant laid off. For some reason, the edit button is gone.

heheh, that happens after a spell. It only allows you to edit for a certain period of time. I guess that's to stop people from just going nuts with it and completely taking comments out of context like a month later. I’m not sure.

It doesn't stop people from making silly comments about a missed word, though. Oh well.

It wasn't me.

embryos have no rights.

even after its born the baby is still at the mercy of the mother, did you read about the mother who cooked her infant in the microwave...? see..now THATS murder..abortion is a surgical procedure that terminates an unwanted pregnancy....I think the latter is far more humane than the microwave method...

Nearly all abortions take place in the first trimester, when a fetus cannot exist independent of the mother. As it is attached by the placenta and umbilical cord, its health is dependent on her health, and cannot be regarded as a separate entity as it cannot exist outside her womb.

ok, maybe I am simply too tired or soemthing, but what does someone not believing in the death poenalty have to do with regualtions on or against gun control? Absolutely nothing.

Now those who believei n the death penalty, but do nto believe in abortion, are hypocrites in my book, yes, but gun control and the death penalty are not related.

<<<<< pro human rights, not just one group of humans but all

both quotes are very arrogant since they come from members of a very privelidge group....no one is threatening your autonomy or right to self-rule..

against abortion?? get a vasectomy!!