McCain ridicules health exemptions for abortion

Why do so-called "pro-lifers" always go after the medical practice of abortion instead of the fertility clinics? Do you know how many precious blastocysts are aborted as a result of in-vitro fertilization? How many lives are created in these clinics so one may live? Would you not agree that the practice is working against God in the most heinous way?

Most "pro-choice" people are "pro-life" at the same time.

Example: I am a woman and I think woman have the right to choose was is right for them.

But at the same time I, myself, would never have one.

No woman should be told what to do with her body. Just like no woman should be raped. And if someone has the audiacity to say otherwise needs to stick their nose back into their own personal life. It's personal for a reason.

Men have no business telling women how to deal with what's going on within their bodies.

You can be pro choice and against abortions. Its the idea of having a choice in what you want to do...Men have a choice it they want to be fathers...most run leaving the woman to deal with the issue....

As far as religion...the Bible really isn't pro child, pro life...The Old Testament is full of God's Wrath...killing men, women and children, Herod slaughter of the first born, God thru Moses kills the Eygptian first born...etc..etc...Not really a good reference point...

With universal health this wouldn't be an issue. And where do "their religious advisers" fit into this picture? Until Roe vs Wade is overturned this a non-issue. To the rest of the males responding to this post, until one of us gets preggers, what right do we have to say anything about it? My mantra during any womans pregancy is" Damn glad it ain't me."

Okay so lets reach a happy medium here... how about anti-choicers agree to adopt 2-3 children and raise them as their own...

... since the majoriity of individuals having abortions are women who already have children and believe they cannot support another child...

so the anti-choicers will be able to help out and really stand on those lofty principles... it's not enough to bear your own children... if you want to dictate the lives of others... well you should bear the responsibility for the choices you want to make for others...

Abortion is murder because life begins at conception. Just my opinion.

That being said, it is not the role of the government to tell women what to do with their body. So abortion is murder, but it should be legal.

I am pro choice, I'm just against Johnny paying for it.

That's me: I am pro life and pro choice...is anyone really anti-life anyway?

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Absolutely, and I am pro life and pro choice (which is pro life as LIFE is one of those choices.) I do not believe in the death penalty nor in killing our children in senseless wars. And I do not believe I would get an abortion unless I were raped or my life was in danger... however, that being said, I also believe that any woman should then have the freewill and choice to decide her own life as I do whether I agree with her choice or not, and that politics should not deem itself arrogant enough to force its faux hypocritical moral code on any woman regarding this issue.

if one wants to say abortion should be legal then they should be willing to say that it should also be illegal for a man and woman to have sex unless they are prepared to care for a child together

wow.. 90% of McCain's relationships just went out the window

first off, i value each and every person's right to have an opinion, and i've never believed that i should impose my beliefs on anyone else.

with that said, i will state the following:

any conservative who believes against abortion rights or gay rights, or any rights, for that matter, is deeply in violation of his or her own party's fundamental beliefs.

conservatives traditionally believe in small-government.

any law that restricts the basic human inalienable rights we gain upon BIRTH is against conservative, and particularly federalist, beliefs. not only are the laws unconstitutional, but they're unnecessary, as large amounts of money has been or will be spent to enact these laws.

a conservative believes in states' rights.

a federal law supersedes states rights, undermining the core conservative federalism ideology.

restriction of inherent rights is analogous to a conservative scripting the seat-belt law or a law against marijuana. it is a waste of rare and expensive congressional docket-space, immoral, unconstitutional, and completely against fundamental conservative beliefs.

absolutely JanforGore!!! People don't seem to understand that pro-life means pro-all-life! For some, it's ok for war to happen, for the death sentence to be used, and for hunting to be legal sport. But if it comes to an unborn fetus, then it's murder. Pro-life means pro-life, just like pro-choice means pro-choice no matter what the choice is.

THIS IS MY STANCE ON ABORTION. I think that abortion is acceptable in the case of rape, if the pregnancy is harming the mother, or the fetus has a fatal defect. I think that aborting a life just because it isn't convenient to be pregnant at the time is a little selfish.

well before you ask how can anyone take the life of a helpless human being...

please ask, how can anyone bring a child carelessly into this world just for an orgasm?

then you'll understand the answer.

Amazing that those who claim that abortion is murder have no qualms about sending our children over to the Middle East to be 'aborted' for their oil money. And of course, those babies born in poverty get none of their compassion once out of the womb either. I agree with Right Brain... It is simply an attempt for the many (most of them men who could never even comprehend what a woman goes through in this situation) to control the few. And it is time this was seen as the personal issue it is and stopped being used as a scare tactic wedge issue in political campaigns.

Well, I suppose it's just a matter of waiting for your ilk to drop off the planet. Nothing personal, of course.

Well rightbrain
I believe you've been feminized. Not that there is anything wrong with that!
Women can certainly do as they wish with their lovely bodies, it's the human being inside her that is helpless and in need of protection from the likes of you.
Nothing personal mind you.

i am pro-choice i may not always agree with that choice,personal choices are just that they are personal.
I may have to take a step back on occasion,and rethink a position but,whatever gets them through the day with peace for themselves

Okay Stranger, you really want to get into this one?

Please don't pull that baby murderer nonsense here. First of all, we're both men. We have absolutely no right to exert our opinions on the matter. How many times has the government told YOU what you can and can not do with or to your body? I'm guessing perhaps very few, or none? Maybe even few enough to admit that you have no idea what it's like for a woman NOT to have the right to choose? Again, neither you or I have the right to an opinion on the matter. Yes fine, you're a father perhaps, but that concerns your children and your wife, not the entire species.

And 'helpless human being'? Com' on, are you telling me that the total sum of life experience and achievement isn't the very definition of what it is to be a human being? Are you saying a blanc tableau has all the quality of a richly written novel or masterful painting? That the potential for something has more importance than the thing itself? Or maybe if it's a man right? Since women are property? Isn't that what you'd like to say?

You would really rather put an undeveloped fetus' "potential" before the mother's personal and sovereign right over her own body?

For clarity, I'm not talking about late term abortion, I'm not talking about partial birth abortion. I'm not talking about sick conservative tactics to scare the crap out people and humiliate women who may find themselves in circumstances where they may need that choice.

Or how about the endless parade of unwanted and exploited children in the world? How about abusive parents of children who never wanted kids in the first place and are forced to participate in prolonged cycles of abuse, passed through generations?

This isn't the middle ages. There is no shortage of people on this planet.

What this issues boils down to; is the few who want to control the many. That's it. Indeed isn't that the root of politics?

How can any human being take the life of a helpless human being?

There is no such thing as "pro-abortion movement" you have pro-choice and anti-choice. That's it. And if these people were so concerned about Big Government you'd think they'd feel the same way about Big Government making choices for what women can do with their bodies. I thought he was really offensive last night. If you want to cut down on abortions increase education and contraception! It's that simple!!