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- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -5/+181They need babies from low income families to go to war.
- 1MaskedPenguin, on 07/17/2008, -9/+178And the retreat back to the 1950's carries on.
- lymulher, on 07/17/2008, -10/+179Are you kidding me? First they make contraception much less affordable -- particularly for a major target group: college females ... and now they are trying to OUTLAW it?!? because that would essentially be the end result were the Bush administration to get its way ... make abortion illegal, and add in the fine print that, oh yeah, birth control is abortion, so none of that ...
- jaypooner, on 07/17/2008, -27/+172somebody just assassinate him already
- gofalcons, on 07/17/2008, -13/+103Now I'm completely against abortion *from an ethical standpoint, not religious* however this is just ridiculous. Contraception and abortion are two VERY different things.
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -6/+86Great example of why ideologically driven nuts shouldn't get elected. If you put ideology above common sense (I'm looking at you Ron Paul) you need to get out of government. We need practical solutions, not dogma.
- MorganMghee, on 07/17/2008, -5/+82FTA: If the Administration goes through with this draft proposal, it will launch a dangerous assault on women’s health.
The majority of Americans oppose this out of touch position that redefines contraception as abortion and represents a sustained pattern of the Bush Administration to reject medical and sound science in favor of a misguided ideology that has no place in our government.
I urge the President to reject this policy and join with Democrats to focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and reducing the need for abortion through increasing access to family planning services and access to affordable birth control. - Hetman, on 07/17/2008, -4/+76Masturbation is Murder. Every time you spill your seed angels cry. Stop the madness.
- GuacamoleSan, on 07/17/2008, -10/+71This is on Nancy Pelosi's website? Insanity. Does Bush want us to die of overpopulation? I think yes.
- thatfunman, on 07/17/2008, -7/+66This is madness!
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -9/+63Why are Americans such ***** pussies, these days? You are scared of being arrested for expressing a thought.. and yet you or others like you express hundreds of other illegal thoughts on the internet constantly.
The Man really has got you by the balls, hasn't he? - Coven, on 07/17/2008, -1/+52This.Is.Washington!
- Hoinah, on 07/17/2008, -1/+49Little known fact, Angel's Tears currently valued at $ 0.001 USD per gallon, due to market overflow
- overtoke, on 07/17/2008, -3/+50So this means that pulling out early is also abortion, masturbation is abortion, ejaculating on her ***** is abortion, a full duration blow job is abortion and also not having sex at all is abortion (need a tampon for that?)
- jebus123, on 07/17/2008, -5/+49They're the American Talibans.
- mecharabbit, on 07/17/2008, -7/+51Just another day in the new Byzantine Empire.
- SammyJr, on 07/17/2008, -1/+45Nope, he just wants to make sure that America has an ample supply of impoverished recruits for the various wars he hopes we're involved in.
- heartsblood, on 07/17/2008, -5/+48Some deserve a quick and painless demise. He doesn't.
- Dumbledorito, on 07/17/2008, -2/+44I guess Bush had to come up with something to top Reagan's classifcation of ketchup as a vegetable.
- frelk, on 07/17/2008, -1/+42After the Supreme Court most likely overturns Roe vs Wade (also a 7-2 decision) in the next few years, Griswold v Connecticut is next. For those who don't know, Griswold was also a landmark privacy case during the 60s that held that contraception was legal. It was the main precedent cited in the majority opinion for Roe, and therefore has a big target painted on it.
- DestroyFascism, on 07/17/2008, -4/+45lol Thought crime. Condom = Abortion. This government is beyond nuts.
Big government = abuse of power. - rz8472, on 07/17/2008, -6/+45There was something in the Old Testament about execution over people 'spilling their seed'. Why don't Bush and the other fundamentalists implement that?
- netneutrality, on 07/17/2008, -1/+40The Digg effect just crashed Nancy Pelosi's website..... See! The people can overthrow the government, in theory! :-/
- gubatron2, on 07/17/2008, -8/+46Now that is some ***** up *****
- WiretapStudios, on 07/17/2008, -5/+42Bush has committed treason multiple times. The penalty is death.
- 00Dan, on 07/17/2008, -2/+37Careful jaypooner- Statements like that could get you a tiny cell and a round of water boarding. King Bush is allowed to throw anyone he wants in jail whenever he wants now.
- Tawni, on 07/17/2008, -4/+39The Government needs to keep its laws off of my body.
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -6/+38"While current law allows health care providers and professionals to refuse to provide abortions based on their religious beliefs, this provision would threaten the funding of organizations and health facilities if they do not hire people who would refuse to provide birth control and defines abortion so broadly that it would include many types of birth control, including oral contraception."
Wow, this is messed up. It's certainly not the government's place to define what they believe is abortion (leave that up to the medical professionals, please), let alone to hold funding hostage if groups don't adhere to this scientifically fallacious belief. (This is what they want to define as a person: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/zygote.jpg )
Damn, soon enough they're going to be trying to define life at conception so as they can de-facto legally ban abortion (and those evil morning after pills) nationally. Oh wait...
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110 ... - Observer001, on 07/17/2008, -4/+34The man and his supporters must consider this a strike against premarital sex or something alike, but it's clear to anyone with a bit of foresight that that wouldn't be an effect of the plan, or at least not the only effect. Teenagers are not known for making cold, rational decisions; this is especially true when sex is involved. Making contraceptives more of a pain to get makes it less likely that brash and often foolish children will simply forgo their use. This makes it likely that those same children will become parents in their state of sometimes questionable ability to serve as parents.
- Eezyville, on 07/17/2008, -0/+30Well if abortion does becaome illegal then it will only cause more problems especially for people in poverty. They would have to increase funding on sex education for the problem to get better, which they aren't doing. So basically they will only make things worse.
- PicklesNCheese, on 07/24/2008, -1/+31Nothing like a bunch of old men trying to regulate my menstrual cycle. Seriously. Don't have an abortion, but we're going to make it difficult for you to avoid an abortion? What kind of logic is that? Is the Bush administration gearing up to criminalize sex next? Are women about to be downgraded to "for breeding purposes only" status?
- ripter, on 07/17/2008, -1/+30@Eezyville
If Contraception is illegal, then the only Sex Education would be abstinence. If I recall correctly there was an article on digg not so long ago that showing that the abstinence program had no effect. - DreKor, on 07/17/2008, -2/+30Move to Wisconsin. Our state subsidizes or completely covers family planning and pre-natal care. In Wisconsin, we want our babies to be happy, healthy, wanted, and loved.
Man, that was smarmy. But true. - inactive, on 07/17/2008, -6/+34This is what is so funny about Paul. He claims that he wants it to be a states-rights thing (using the loaded phrase: "protection of the unborn"), but then he submits bills defining life at conception because he believes he is protecting individual liberties - of the zygote( http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/zygote.jpg )! And the best part is, his supporters justify this by saying "well he only does that because it's his belief that life starts from conception so it's not really a derivation on his part", as if that were some kind of justification!
Just read what he said in the family value debate:
"I have a Bill in congress I certainly would promote and push as president, called the Sanctity of Life Amendment. We establish the principle that life begins at conception. And someone says, 'oh why are you saying that?' and I say, 'well, that's not a political statement -- that's a scientific statement that I'm making!"
I know we're all interested in a better court system and amending the constitution to protect life. But sometimes I think that is dismissing the way we can handle this much quicker, and my bill removes the jurisdiction of the federal courts from the issue of abortion, if a state law says no abortion, it doesn't go to the supreme court to be ruled out of order"
A scientific statement? Maybe one accepted by NRLC "scientists". It's like he completely ignores the fact that most people in his former profession do not hold this "scientific" view. But he parades it as if it were an unquestioned scientific fact. And look at the bottom paragraph, he wants to go so far as completely remove a branch of government from the process! How is that constitutional? - darneveryone, on 07/17/2008, -14/+41They're not talking about outlawing anything, they're talking about cutting federal funding. I'm mad too, but read the article before you start ranting.
- majortom1981, on 07/17/2008, -2/+29So instead of stopping people from getting abortions buy having them use contraception he wil lactually have more people get abortions because he is stopping contraception funding? Wow if that isnt backwards I don't know what is.
- DestroyFascism, on 07/17/2008, -0/+27Someone just made the watch list....
Join the freaking crowd... - HonestAbe, on 07/17/2008, -0/+27When you eat a hamburger you abort a life. It's not "life" that's the issue; it's humanity. If I scrape cells off the inside of my cheek, is that a human being? It's a cluster of living human cells with a full set of DNA, that, under the right conditions, could be made to grow into a full-grown human. Does that mean my cheek scrapings have a right to life?
Different people have different beliefs about what constitutes a human being. This isn't something that a 51% majority should be legislating on a 49% minority. You are free to tell people that what they're doing is murder, and try to convince them that your beliefs are right, but trying to force them into your beliefs through legislation and jail time is immoral and solves nothing.
Instead of trying to turn America into a fundamentalist tyranny, we should be focusing on developing new, long-term contraceptives for both men and women, and giving them out like candy to prevent as many unplanned pregnancies as possible, so that the abortion debate dissolves altogether for lack of abortions. - joauri, on 07/17/2008, -1/+28Argh. This makes me so mad. Its insane the girls I see in my job who are miserable because they are pregnant. Bush should be giving more money to make bc more affordable and sex education more than just a joke. This would help our welfare system immensely!
I don't think anyone who hasn't actually had to birth a child should be making choices on birth control, abortion, anything to do with women's rights! I can't imagine going through an unwanted pregnancy. It was hard enough being pregnant with a child I wanted.
So in short terms, lets stop that jerk already. - PReitz, on 07/17/2008, -1/+27Give them time, I'm sure they're getting around to it. There's only so much oppressive nonsense they can dish out in a day.
- DeFex, on 07/17/2008, -0/+26thats birth control! Guantanamo for you!
- rald84, on 07/17/2008, -1/+27you should say you want to cut his n_ts off. that makes it legal!
- dynamojoe, on 07/17/2008, -3/+28When contraceptives are outlawed, only outlaws will have contraception.
- TheUngod, on 07/17/2008, -0/+25Currently yes, but you know Bush wants abortion illegal. So while he may not be currently going out of his way to make it so, you know that's what he's going for in the long run.
- samthurston, on 07/17/2008, -2/+25The Secret Service takes all threats seriously, and they've been disappearing people for a lot longer than we've had a war on terror.
- Rikkochet, on 07/17/2008, -0/+22Enough with the primitive need for vengeance. He needs to be eradicated as quickly as possible so we can pick up the pieces and move into the future. Wasting even more ***** time and energy on him is an insult to every intelligent person that has had to listen to him and put up with his politics for the past 8 years.
- Eezyville, on 07/17/2008, -0/+21I'd digg you up but I'm at work on a government computer at an air force base right now. :)
- PicklesNCheese, on 07/24/2008, -2/+23What do you mean personal responsibility? I use contraception. I have to pay to get it prescribed by a doctor, and then pay $60 to buy it because insurance doesn't cover it. How am I not being personally responsible for myself? Now the administration wants to make it even HARDER to obtain? What do you propose I do? Become a nun?
- patm1987, on 07/17/2008, -1/+22Do you really want Cheney to be the president? That's who'll be there if Bush is assasinated. And psychohistory hasn't developed to a point where the second foundation can rule yet...
- bjornski, on 07/17/2008, -1/+21It's amazing that people don't understand the value of smart, healthy citizens.
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