news.yahoo.com — Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record), looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
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wobitnobbyFeb 19, 2007
ethl, part of the reason that we are having this dialouge now is the preponderance of evidence that legal abortion is safer for the population. 30 years ago, nearly everyone knew several women who had been killed, or rendered infertile, or subjected to molestation or rape as a result of a botched illegal abortion. Nowadays, even though abortion is one of the most common gynecological procedures in the US, it is so safe and private that no one knows a woman has had one unless she chooses to talk about it. In nations where abortion is still illegal, women still get hurt. In Portugal for example, there are over 20,000 illegal abortions every year and nearly 25% of those women end up in the emergency room with complications. That is certainly not what is happening here.
eth3lFeb 20, 2007
There is "Political News"
srodolffFeb 20, 2007
Note to John McCain:There are MANY issues more pressing on the minds of American voters and citizens than the legality of Abortion.Exactly when is ANY politician going to implement or cater to the the will of the people (and I'm talking about the majority here)?This is getting freakin ridiculous.
techlawFeb 20, 2007
John, John, John...I had such high hopes for your candidacy, that you would not fall into the cliches. You might actually say a few sentences worth a damn. But THIS? You are smarter than that, and it is by your NOT towing the party line that has won you so much bipartisan respect and support.
mrblackthorneFeb 20, 2007
Personally, I can't take the abortion debate seriously until the people who are "pro-life" are "pro-all-life." Stop eating meat, buying products that are animal tested, treat your fellow animals like the living things that they are, and then I'll take you seriously. The fact is that animals also feel pain, also believe they have the right to life (self-preservation), and have more cognitive ability than a months-old fetus. And, interestingly enough, an animal can live on its own and survive without its mother. A fetus can't. In this way, a fetus actually has more in common with a tapeworm.I'm not going to say that I'd enthusiastically support the idea of a loved one getting an abortion. I'd probably lobby against it. However, it is ultimately not my choice. Quite honestly, that's the way it should be. If it was ever put to a referendum, I feel that only WOMEN should be allowed to decide.Until those that are "pro-life" stop being hypocrites, I can't take them seriously. And most of those people are the same people that site the Bible when I make this argument. THAT'S why abortion is considered a religious issue.
afreytFeb 21, 2007
John McCain is pandering to the religious right, having forgotten over the tarring that his party gave him in 2000. You can't believe a word he says.
mercymillenniumFeb 21, 2007
I think your assuming to much for the fetus. If a woman cuts off a finger and it dies did she commit murder? no. If she takes any little bit of her body and has it removed did she commit murder? no again. You are giving a piece of that woman status way beyond what is provable. Your way of thinking means a woman's "monthly" is murder she just flushed a potential child. A miscarriage is possible murder, maybe manslaughter.Its just to much. Till that child can live outside its mother. Meet some basic standard of self reliance, breathe of its own, digest its own food, pick a good mate (na for get that last part most of us fail :P ) you can't really consider it a child. Its just a piece of the mother.
dadiggcodeMar 2, 2007
OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gostarsApr 12, 2007
Jelly, when does a fetus become a person? Would you agree that a fetus 5 minutes from birth is a person? How about 10 minutes? An hour? A week? Two months? Where do you draw the line and how do you determine which is murder and which isn't? Why shouldn't we err on the side of caution?
jimv1983Jun 22, 2008
your numbers are way off. Using your numbers that would be like an average of 939 abortions per year or about 33,000 since Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973. For each of the years you put its more like 1,300,000 with a 35 year total of almost 50,000,000. That is like killing 1/6 of the current US population.To give it a little perspective:125x as many US soldiers that died in WWII10x as many than all the holocaust victims. Coronary heart disease caused 451,326 deaths in 2004 if you use that as an average that would beabout 15,000,000 since 1973. That's less than a third of the number of abortions in the same time period.So yes I would say quite a holocaust!!<a class="user" href="http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4478">http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?ident ...</a><a class="user" href="http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats.html">http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats.h ...</a><a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualti ...</a>I have sources for my numbers. Where did you get yours?
jimv1983Jun 22, 2008
So was Einstein, Lincoln, Hawking... along with many other great people. Fact is you don't know what the fetus is going to become.
cuteterreeeMar 16, 2009
Aside from religious beliefs and morals, see what Nancy Pelosi has to say about children...<a class="user" href="http://www.sickofliberals.com/uncategorized/obama-quotes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sickofliberals.com/uncategorized/obama- ...</a>Suddnely John McCain's views aren't so bad.