A fellow ranter has a harangue condemning Planned Parenthood as the root of all evil and blames them for the murders of uncounted babies.
I was raised Catholic and we were also taught that life begins at conception, so I understand where Truthbrary is coming from.
Most people do not approve of abortions, including I suspect, most of the people who work for Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is not really in the baby killing business. They are in the business of helping and educating young women so they don't have to have abortions. Only 3% of Planned Parenthood funding goes to abortion. The other 97% goes to critical medical care for women who can not get this care anywhere else.
The truth is that the Christian radicals that are outlawing abortions, birth control, and efforts to educate, are actually causing far more abortions than they are preventing by outlawing the practice.
A new study found that abortions are far more common where they are outlawed, than where they are allowed. This study found that 95% to 97% of the abortions done in the areas where they are restricted are unsafe.
The unsafe conditions result in the deaths of 47,000 women a year with another 8.5 million women with serious medical complications because of botched abortions.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-5...As a kid in Catholic school, I totally bought the churches line, and even considered the priesthood. But then when I grew up I started thinking for myself, and something bothered me about the black and white, good vs. bad, universe of those who believed in moral absolutes.
The real world doesn't work that way. Nothing is ever black and white. If you live in the real world, you need to deal with moral relativity. The Taliban still deals in moral absolutes. Sex is bad they say, so even if a woman is raped, she should be stoned to death. Most people are a bit more rational than that.
The rational among us realize that if it is a choice between the health of a woman or a fetus that has the potential of becoming human, the woman wins. Some conservatives refuse to even consider the health of the woman. If the fetus is eliminated, it is murder and the woman and her doctor should go to jail.
What if a woman finds out she is pregnant again in some poor starving family in Africa. She has already lost one or two children to starvation and she knows if another child is born her children will suffer or die. Should she get an abortion.
It is always a difficult decision. It is a decision that should be made by the woman with consultation with her doctor, not by some male politician catering to the religious radicals in his district. What happened to freedom from the extremes of religion?
Of course in many parts of the world there aren't enough doctors, or enough birth control available, or enough people to educate people about sex, so ignorance results in more deaths and more tragedy. Ignorant men with Aids think that if they rape a virgin it will cure their disease, so they rape children who then get pregnant. Their young bodies are unable to bear the child and the birth literally tears the child apart resulting in her death or in Fistula.
http://au.christiantoday.com/article/the...There is a clear need for birth control and education, but the Obama administration is still working under the same Abstinence Only aid programs that proved so counterproductive under Bush.
http://www.jewsonfirst.org/overseasrepro...Contrary to Truthbrary's Rant, and the hysterical misinformation of the Christian Conservatives, the Obama Administration and the Affordable Care Act does not encourage or pay for abortions. There are multiple rules forbidding any federal funds being applied to abortions.
http://www.jewsonfirst.org/overseasrepro...The abortion question is a difficult one. Most rational people consider all sides of the argument. Progressives think that abortion should be a last resort. They think that the more education and access to birth control is available the fewer abortions there will be. That is why abortions always go down in Democratic administrations and go up in Republican administrations. Democrats provide alternatives to abortions and when absolutely necessary they make certain the procedure is done safely so woman don't have to revert to the bad old days of backroom abortions and clothes hangers.
Social Conservatives may talk about freedom and an individuals rights, but they have declared war on the rights of women to make their own choices and they are fine with forcing intrusive big government into the bedrooms of all of us, freedom be damned.
http://www.truth-out.org/gops-ten-most-e...