Senator Clinton Wants Hearings On Morning-After Pill

[norml]

Senator Clinton Wants Hearings On Morning-After Pill

August 27, 2005

Senator Hillary Clinton and Washington Senator Patty Murray are calling for hearings to weigh the issues holding up the release of an over-the-counter version of the so-called morning after pill.

The Food and Drug Administration has delayed the release of the new version of the pill by an additional 60 days to reach a decision on the matter.

The issue seems to be how the agency would enforce the rule that only women over 17 should have access to the drug.

The drug is said to reduce the risk of pregnancy if taken three days after having unprotected sex.


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http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=53130

[OKNancy]

1. Good for them

I don't know if anything will come of it, but it's a good start.

[OKthatsIT]

84. dont make me laugh(a huge ga faux)

Hillary is a joke.

Hit that back arrow a couple of times....let all those HEADLINES fill your concsciousness...then look at the wee 'study' Hillary is doing.

Her going after this Pill will enable her to begin her CENTRIST approach to abortion rights...

You just watch. I know I'm right.

[I concur]

99. My question: Is it safe...

...there is a lot of controversy concering the patch currently, is this really good medicine or just more dangerous "snake oil" (a la Vioxx and Celabrex)?

[FlemingsGhost]

2. Who makes the "morning after pill?"

Have they made any contributions to Senator Clinton?

[CTyankee]

4. Why don't you do the research? And do you ask the same question of Murray?

And if not, why not?

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Doing it right now ...

You'll be the first to know ...

[rodeodance]

6. Barr Pharmaceuticals,

FDA Delays Morning-After Pill Decision 60 days


The government on Friday put off its long-awaited final decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription, saying the pill was safe to sell over-the-counter to adults but grappling with how to keep it out of the hands of young teenagers.

The Food and Drug Administration postponed for 60 days a final decision on how to allow nonprescription sales of the morning-after pill called Plan B just to women 17 or older.

"Enforceability is the key question," said FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford.

The drug's maker, Barr Pharmaceuticals, criticized the decision, questioning how the agency could acknowledge that scientific evidence supported nonprescription sales and yet not allow those sales to begin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050826/ap_on_he_me/morning...

[insane_cratic_gal]

37. Pharmacists for Life

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,67432,00.html

Yet news reports as well as Pharmacists for Life say the drug can cause abortion by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. Members of Pharmacists for Life did not respond to phone calls and e-mails, but the group's website calls Plan B "a progestin-only abortifacient which prevents implantation as a major mechanism of action."

Ann Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, said she believes Plan B causes abortion.

"It has the capability of acting as an abortive, the same way as any contraceptive pill does," she said. "If it does not prevent ovulation, it makes the uterus inhospitable to fertilized eggs."


Stuff like this makes my head explode. As a woman it sends me off the deep end. Honest to god, with all do respect, if they have issues with the morning after pill (which is a large does of birth control pills) then they most certainly are trying to regulate my god damn ovaries!!.

It boggles my mind. I feel bad for christians on some level because there are some whack jobs out there on the front line messing everything up for you. I'm trying desperately not to blanket a religion with such negative thoughts. But every time I turn around one of these psycho cases has hijacked the christian religion and used it as a shield for their radical Puritan ideals.

I can't see any other way, but christian religion seems ready for another split. If I were a liberal christian, I'd be pushing for it. It's just going to get ugly.

[Zhade]

69. Pardon this man's potential ignorance, but isn't the MAP...

...just a multidose of birth control pills?

Couldn't the same effect be achieved by taking multiple BC pills at once? I think I read that somewhere?

(Not that I am against the MAP - for one, I'm male and really don't have a say, and I'm 1000% for a woman's right to control her own body, period. I just wanted to know if my understanding is correct.)

[Andromeda]

46. Maybe they gave her a years ...

supply of morning-after pills?:shrug:

[Lerkfish]

3. this should be done, but WHY NOT IRAQ or ELECTION REFORM????

[Imagevision]

20. psst! Hillary, Have you heard of Cindy Sheehan? how bout Obama??

has he heard of Cindy Sheeham?? These "silent" Dem Senators at such a crucial time as more troops keep dying for a phoney war, but want our support come election day make me skeptical of them!

What's Hillarys reason for ducking Cindy Sheeham support??

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[madeline_con]

34. She's sucking up to GOP...

[drummo]

41. Because she voted for this fu%@ing war.

She doesn't have any moral right to oppose Bush and the war now. It was started because of people like her. End of story.

[Zhade]

71. I don't agree with that sentiment.

If someone who voted for the IWR truly feels remorse, shouldn't they be allowed to repent for their actions?

Not that Clinton has done either, but the point is general, not specific to her.

[MaineDem]

7. Good move by our Senators

I wouldn't be surprised to see more of the female Senators sign on to this.

[IndianaGreen]

8. How about hearings on the Downing Street memo, Hillary?

Or is that not part of the DLC agenda?

Back on point: As to the morning after pill, by all means let's have hearings as to why the US government wants prescriptions for them. Are we now saying that preventing an egg from being fertilized is a form of abortion?

[leesa]

36. I hear ya! Another distraction by the DLC. ANYTHING but deal

with the crimes of 9-11 and Iraq.

[Dr Fate]

68. I agree- she has yet to even mention that document. n/t

n/t

[bahrbearian]

9. How does she do it ,Grand Theft Auto and the Morning After..

Man she sure has a lot of energy, tackling all the major issues.

[WildClarySage]

17. Yeah, reproductive rights is really low on the scale of important issues

:sarcasm:

[OzarkDem]

48. Actually

Compared to a lot of other things going on right now, it isn't.

[Chovexani]

52. I bet if you were pregnant and in need of one

You wouldn't be saying that.

[saracat]

61. Nice to know that a women's rights are not important to some on this board

It is my number one issue because it is a challange to my personhood. Jsut as many women could die as a result of this as soldiers we lose in Iraq and for less reason. This is also a war and just as important.

[glendavis77]

73. Extremely important: War 82%, abortion 52%

Both important, the most important being ignored.
http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm

[saracat]

81. Nothing is more important than the rights of the individual! Reproductive

Rights trump the War as they are about the rights guaranteed us as individuals under the constitution! If we don't have the status of personhood, war is irelevent as we have no way to influence its condition.

[glendavis77]

93. What about the rights of the Iraqis?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King

[saracat]

95. So their rights render ours nonexistant?

How can we support their rights if we don't support our own first?

[Lerkfish]

58. Like I said, it IS important, but the other issues are just as

important. None should be ignored. I'm just amazed she can demand hearings for this but not the others.
Just like I was amazed they had time to investigate steroid use with athletes but not investigate the DSM.

They are making a hierarchial list of importance. I am just amazed at how some issues are treated, and some ignored. That does not mean the ones they are dealing with aren't worth dealing with.

[CityDem]

23. Maybe school uniforms will be next on the agenda

Memo to Hillary and Murray -- get down to Crawford and embrace Cindy.

[joanski0]

10. From what I understand from watching

the Senate on C-Span2, Sens. Clinton, Murray, and Milkulski put a hold on the confirmation of the new FDA chief because of this issue. When I heard that these Senators released their hold, and the nominee was confirmed, I figured they got what they wanted. Apparently, all they got was a promise, because I heard on CNN that Hillary called this hold-up a "breach of faith". When will the Dems ever learn not to trust what the Republicans promise? I don't get it!

[FredScuttle]

11. Read this in the paper this morning

and wanted to vomit....Clinton and Murray were described as "stunned" because they approved this wingnut Crawford as FDA head contingent on his promise to issue a decision on Plan B by Sept. 1

well.....duh! He broke his word! Just as every member of this crooked administration has done every day!

We have a bunch of Charlie Browns in Congress, shocked and dismayed when Lucy continues to take the ball away. We need REAL representation and someone to call these liars and criminals out BEFORE they get into power.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/27/MNGHKEE7O21.DTL

[Iowa]

12. Well said FredScuttle!

"...a bunch of Charlie Browns in Congress, shocked and dismayed when Lucy continues to take the ball away...".

So true, and what a great way to describe it.

:headbang:

[joanski0]

14. Thanks for this info, Fred. n/t

[CityDem]

21. When will they ever learn

They are dealing with some very ruthless politicians. Sometimes it seems like our elected leaders are like the 3 stooges.

[Mass]

27. Clinton and Murray voted AGAINST Crawford.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00190

[FredScuttle]

35. Thanks for the info

I was not aware of their final vote on the nomination, but I still think my original point stands, which is that this wingnut should never have made it out of committee. I went by this paragraph in the SF Chronicle article I linked to:

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., said they were incensed because they had allowed Crawford's nomination as commissioner to move forward this summer only after getting a promise that a final decision on the Plan B issue would be made by Sept. 1.

When will our representatives stop accepting the empty promises and duplicity of the GOP and start demanding accountability UP FRONT? Democrats seem willing to bend at any point to the GOP's wishes in the interest of "bipartisanship" and what has that got us? Policies which are in direct contrast to our core values and Administration officials who blindly carry out the destructive agenda of this criminal administration. It is beyond time for our representatives to drop the "nice guy" act and act like a goddamn opposition party!

[Andromeda]

44. Thanks for that.

Misinformation spreads like wildfires at this forum.

[FredScuttle]

63. But I don't think that negates my original point

The nay votes by Clinton and Murray were locking the barn doors after the horse had already escaped.

[Zhade]

72. AAAIIIGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly.

[pitohui]

13. fine but why not girls 17 and under also?

the consequences of carrying a baby to term in the early teens can be a lot more severe to the body as well as the future of the mother

is there a medical reason why younger teens can't get the morning after pill or is it pandering to the yahoos?

[durablend]

15. People under 17 don't have sex

In case you didn't already know that

:sarcasm:

[daleo]

29. And if by chance they do have sex, they have to be punished.

Carrying a baby to term when you are 13 builds character, according to the religious right.

[baby_bear]

16. I don't understand why any DUers would minimize this issue

It's huge. It's the tip of an iceberg to take away women's right to choose - and not just abortion, but contraception. Plus, if you have never been 16, terrified that you are pregnant, and unable to confide in a parent, then just try to imagine it. It is the most helpless and scary situation in the world to that girl. She should be able to make a decision as to whether to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. She should not have to wait to become pregnant and then go through an abortion or the pregnancy. This is her life we are talking about. This is not a small issue.

This is the fundamentalists trying to rule women's bodies. Think Sharia law where women have no rights. There's a clear parallel.

Praises to Clinton and Murray. They are representing more than half of the citizenry of this country, not just their own constituents.

b_b

[Prodemsouth]

28. Go to a shooping center/mall, talk to the first 50 women you meet-

and ask them what are the most important issues and I bet it won't even come up among one of them. You can even narrow it down to only older teen and young twenties women and it still would not come up as an important issue. Hillary is just trying to smooth out things with NARAL, after these types had problems with remarks about abortion earlier after the election.

[JerseygirlCT]

33. I disagree

It would sure be near the top of my list.

If we don't have control of our own bodies, everything else is meaningless.

[baby_bear]

42. I agree with JerseygirlCT

And I also believe that many young girls these days are not educated about their rights and how tenuous they are.

So it's a matter of education - not a matter of taking a poll of - let's face it - relatively ignorant young women - and a matter of privacy and civil rights. You don't ask people whether they want to give up their rights (well, the Bush administration does). That is against the principles of this country.

We have to protect people's civil and privacy rights whether or not they think they need them to be protected. Isn't that obvious to all of us here?

b_b

[Prodemsouth]

47. I am not talking about YOU. Disagree all you want, the TRUTH is

If you ask the first 50 unknown women you encounter what are the 5 most important national issues they would like to see their Senator or the President tackle, this would not even be among the top 5 issues they would give you.

[Crowdance]

53. So, you actually DID this? Talked to 50 women you didn't know

at the mall? I'm curious: What were their top 5 issues? Did they all agree about those top 5 issues? And, while we're at it, could you describe your methodology? I'd like to see if I can reproduce your results.

[Lars39]

87. So just because these women

happen to be ignorant of the RW push to outlaw contraception we shouldn't stick up for their rights?

[JerseygirlCT]

54. So where does intelligence and discretion come into it then?

If you asked random groups of people what they wanted the gov't to do, plenty of them would ask to win the lottery or something. There's plenty of ignorance as to the function of gov't and how it involves citizens.

That said, part of why we elect people is to uphold the consitution. And that includes protecting the rights of minorities, even when they're in the majority (as in women). I'm not really interested in gov't by polls, you know?

[MaineDem]

55. That's not valid

Of course this isn't a major issue to many women. But to those to whom the situation applies it can be deadly serious.

Hell, 50 people in the mall wouldn't be able to give ONE important national issue.

It's important that someone look into the FDA's delay. Who else but the Senate and I'm thankful that Senators Clinton, Murray, and Mikulski are doing that.

[Andromeda]

45. Wrong.

This is an extremely important issue affecting all women of childbearing age.

[OzarkDem]

50. You're right

Women are suffering horrendously today for lack of health care because reproductive rights has prevented anyone from discussing any other health care issue for women. Its becoming a tragedy of epic proportions - one that goes on under the radar, completely ignored.

[glendavis77]

64. We didn't say ignore reproduction issues

We are saying to pay attention to the war as well.
Is the war not a major issue to you?

[Zhade]

75. It IS a huge issue, no question.

It's just that I wonder, when she focuses on rights like this (well, except that she voted to get the FDA guy out of committee), where she is on other rights, like workers' rights (CAFTA) or soldiers' and Iraqis' rights (to not die and be killed in an illegal war).

Where's her comments on the DSM, that proves we were lied into war, for example? Don't we have a right not to be lied to?

[WindRavenX]

18. Why is the issue surrounding this regarding access to teenagers?

The very target audience of Plan B, young teenagers, would benefit MOST from having access to Plan B; by making it harder for those under 17 (which seems like an arbitrary age), the effect of having Plan B available over the counter may be lessoned.

Plan B, if made available, has the power to empower women and to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies and abortions.

If anything, teenagers SHOULD have access to Plan B.

[Prodemsouth]

24. Sorry it is not huge! Gas Prices are huge ask any congress

critter- who just talked to those he or she is supposed to be representing.

[SKKY]

19. Well, this is certainly more important than Steroids in Baseball...

[Prodemsouth]

22. This is what they think is important right now? This is why Hillary

would be a disaster. Gas Prices and the war are what people care about, she can't say anything about the later because she supported it.

[Mass]

25. This is important for women,sorry...

Amazing how some people can be blindsided by the issues they find important.

[Prodemsouth]

31. I will reapeat this for you - go to the first 50 women you meet and

ask: What is the most important national issue to you right now? I bet you won't get one reply saying that this is important. You can narrow your subjects down to young women, hell go for a hundred, you still won't see this issue on the radar screen- just a reply of healthcare won't count -they have to say the morning after pill. You will not see it come up among a thousand I bet.
It is people like you who have been telling us what is important to women who are blindsided and judging from the post election numbers..you have been wrong for how many election cycles now??

[Mass]

32. Not saying it is the only important issue, but it is important

And people like you probably never helped winning an election. Insulting people does not help.

BTW, I am a woman, and I am not sure what you are as your profile is not completed.

My most important issues, if you must know are environment, healthcare, and sustainable development.

And if I understand you clearly, pols should limit their actions to what people see on their personal life and not care about other things. Well, this is exactly why we are in the mess we are in. Because nobody cared about anything else than pork and electoral issues and nobody prepared for the future.

[wickerwoman]

39. I'll take that bet.

And I only need to ask one person. Reproductive freedom is top on my list of important national issues. If I don't get to choose what to do with my own damn body, nothing else really matters does it?

And your stipulation "they have to say the morning after pill" is absurd. That's like saying no one cares about torture at Abu Ghraib because "war in Iraq" doesn't cover it.

Asked that question, people will naturally choose a larger issue. Just because they don't cite the specific doesn't mean they don't care about it.

With the nomination of Roberts to the Supreme Court and the repeal of Roe within striking distance, women are waking up to the full body assault on reproductive rights going on throughout the country.

Why are we losing elections? Because we eat our own about shit like this. Do you really think Sen. Clinton is incapable of working on more than one issue at once? We complain about our own representatives when they don't act on our issues, we complain when they act on other people's issues and we complain when they do act on our issues that they didn't do enough or didn't do it soon enough or weren't in the news prominantly enough (as if they have any control over that.)

I appreciate that you don't care about the morning after pill. Fair enough. But the only person presuming to speak for all women around here is you. And your presumption is presumptious.

[Prodemsouth]

49. Bottom Line if these issues were as important as people like you

claim there would be a lot more noise out there about Roberts and reproductive rights. Like I said if you go to a NARAL meeting yes you will find people saying this is important. Its when people such as yourself you say "women" as if you speak for all women- (when it is beocoming ever so obivous that you do not) that gets under my skin. The morning after pill? I fully support it being available and I am not for overturning Roe V Wade. (Ohhh that reminds me maybe Hillary is making noise about the morning after pill because she plans to vote for Roberts.)

[wickerwoman]

94. It's when people like yourself

start using expressions like "people like yourself" that I begin to feel I'm wasting my time. You asked for one person, I gave her to you. Show me where in my original post I implied that I speak for all women.

I find it amusing that you can't see the irony in accusing others on this thread of putting words in all women's mouths when you are so intent on doing it yourself to everyone you encounter.

[glendavis77]

65. War is as important for women and Hil dont give a damn

Both are important, but Hil thinks only abortion is.

[leetrisck]

77. Hillary Clinton has more care in her for the people

of this country (including our military) than anyone I can think of. This is the kind of republican thing that they love - beat up on Hillary because one has nothing better to do.

[oasis]

80. Hurricane Katrina is Hillary's fault doncha know?

:eyes:

[CTyankee]

26. I don't get the analogy to cigarettes and alcohol

Sex is a natural, healthy phenomenon. Cigarettes and alcohol are detriments to natural, healthy phenomenon. While delaying sex is a good thing for young women who cannot really give their consent, it is not unhealthy if practiced by consenting adults who understand the hazards of unplanned pregnancy and STDs.

Plan B solves the first problem. Good counseling, such as what happens at places that dispense Plan B and can be incorporated into warnings on drug labels or information, helps solve the second.

The fact of the matter is that Plan B can reduce unwanted pregnancy and abortions significantly.

The opponents to Plan B have another agenda entirely. It is the reducing of choice for women who are sexuallly active. Pure and simple.

[daleo]

30. Alcohol is natural and healthy if used responsibly.

As is sex. It is hard to make that claim for tobacco.

[athenap]

38. Hormones

As I understand it, Plan B is a form of Birth Control that uses a hormone cocktail to render a woman's body inhospitable to pregnancy (same as the regular pill, only a stronger dose). If I'm understanding correctly, a non-partisan, legitimate issue over Plan B is how much of an effect the hormones in Plan B have on a younger girl's reproductive system, versus a more mature woman's. Especially given that younger girls with not-fully-mature reproductive systems can have unpredictable reactions to hormones. So given that information, I would be a little concerned about the health and safety issues surrounding making Plan B available to people under 17. If it goes through, then it seems that the pharmacies will treat it like other items of high shoplifting popularity (nicorette, KY, pregnancy tests, ovulation tests, condoms, etc) and keep it OTC, but in a case with a lock on it.

And the point is likely a moot one, since a fourteen year old girl who needs plan b will get a 17 year old to buy it for her, anyway.

[paulk]

40. I see all the usual Dem haters are out tonight

Put up a positive thread about a Democrat; any Democrat - and they come crawling out of the woodwork.

It's kinda wierd - it's like you click on a DU thread and get magically transported over to FreeRepublic or something...

[leesa]

57. Is Hillary a Dem? Who would have known?

[glendavis77]

67. The left doesn't need to be partisan

Never worship a political party. 95% will vote democrat eventually.

[glendavis77]

70. Polls: War almost twice more important than abortion

Time Poll before the elections in 2004:
"Which of the following issues is most important to you in deciding how you might vote for president in November






The economy 24%
The war on terrorism 24%
The situation in Iraq 18%
Health care costs 14%
Moral values issues,
such as gay marriage and abortion: 14%

CBS poll:
War in Iraq 19
Economy/Jobs 14
Terrorism (general) 12
Moral values/Family values 3
Health care 3
Gas/Heating oil crisis 3
Education 3
Defense/Military 3
Poverty/Homelessness 3
Other 31
Unsure
http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm

[paulk]

86. the left doesn't need to be damned if you do, damned if you don't

either.

and that's what I see day after day after day here on DU.

[fujiyama]

43. Hillary has wasted a lot of time with trivial issues

but I think this may be useful. If this pill is safe, it should be available to those under 18 as well because it should prevent unwanted pregnancies and hence abortion. Hopefully whatever important safety and advers health affects concerns will be addressed as well.

Teens aren't going to stop having sex, but if the RWers were actually serious and consistent about preventing abortion they would quit their absurd opposition to sensible sex ed and birth control (including pills like the morning after pill). Of course we know that RW fundies are neither sensible, nor consistent.

[babsbunny]

59. You mean they can call for hearings on stuff?

Boy, I would of started with the missing 9 Billion dollars missing in Iraq!

[Dr Fate]

79. 9 billion could pay for a lot of Health Education programs- I agree.

Lets have a hearing on that first.

Oh wait a minute- if we did that, Sean Hannity would compare Hill to Micheal Moore- so we better not do that.

Let's stick to video games and cute little fetus-babies.

[MaineDem]

51. This may not be the most important issue to everyone but it's still big

Senators deal with many things and I for one am glad that these Senators are looking into this.

Hate Hillary if you want but there are women out there who need this medication and the FDA is dragging its feet on this.

Good lord, folks!!! They're doing something good and they get dumped on here at DU. Give it a rest.

If men got pregnant this EC would be available like candy. I would like to think that progressives/liberals would understand.

This is one of the good things that the Senate is doing. There are other things they will do but this is just ONE of them.

[pfitz59]

56. "Ya body belonga me!"

Next comes foot-binding, and ham-stringing! Must hobble the breeders, lest they escape.....

[pberq]

60. This is important, but what about the illegal war based on

a pack of lies that Ms. Clinton supports?

All these social issues that she is working on are trumped by her support for the world military empire of the U.S.

On edit:

From - Democrats, take a stand: Helen Thomas

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2039219

". . .What is the logic of Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Joseph Biden, D-Del. and other so-called moderate Democrats still backing the unprovoked war in Iraq when they know they were sold a bill of goods?"

[bluetuesday]

62. morning after

She is going to need some kind of morning after pill
when she loses her run for the Whitehouse.
And she will lose unless she can get with the real issue
in this country that's making history and making a difference.
That is the brave and courageous gold star mothers led by
Cindy Sheehan in Crawford.
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS??? JOE BIDEN, JOHN KERRY,HILLARY ???
It's like they have gone into hiding~

[leetrisck]

66. Wrong - come election time,it will be about abortion,

flag-burning, gay marriage and prayer in school because that is what the republicans will want it to be about - they won't even talk about this so-called war.Didn't you hear bush tell the VFW (I think) the other day he wanted a flag-burning amendment. Surprisingly, they didn't all hoot and holler over that - think they thought there might be a few things more important.

[glendavis77]

74. Abortion is not a Top Issue for Voters

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/login.aspx?ci=11461

[saracat]

76. And most voters are idiots.

American voters are probably the most ill informed and badly educated voters in the world. Quoting polls reflecting them is hardly likely to influence any of the more intelligent voters on this board.

[leetrisck]

78. I agree with you

It doesn't matter what voter's top issues are anyway - it will be about the hot button issues and the republicans will see to it that it isn't about the war or jobs or gas - that is what I was attempting to say. They will make it about any hot button social issue they can think of - like school prayer.

[glendavis77]

83. You contradict yourself

You seemed to give much importance to the issues in your post titled "Wrong - come election time,it will be about abortion,"
Now after learning most voters consider the war a more imporant issue you all of a sudden believe that it's not that important?

[glendavis77]

82. Idiots because their priority is not abortion?

Those to whom abortion is important, but not the most important issue are idiots?
Interesting.

[saracat]

88. Think about it. This nation is founded on the preservation of the rights

of the individual. If we do not fight to retain that principle , what is the point of our existence as a nation????

[glendavis77]

92. The rights of the Iraqis are as important

As our rights. Let's not invade them illegally and kill their women and children and torture their citizens.

[saracat]

97. If we had respect for our own citizens , we wouldn't do that.

We must uphold OUR Constitution before we tell anyone else what to do.

[Bridget Burke]

98. Where were you when Iraq was invaded?

There was quite a bit of discussion at DU.

[bluetuesday]

90. wrong

Maybe not, I did notice many were wearing their bullshit protectors

[Zenlitened]

85. A thread like this -- Hillary AND women's issues -- is like a magnet...

... for knuckle-draggers, isn't it?

Unbefuckinglievable.

[Lars39]

89. Maybe these knuckle-draggers having to support 7 kids

by themselves because their wives died during childbirth or they can't get laid because of risk of pregnancy, will finally shut their damn mouths or get out of our way.

[The_Casual_Observer]

91. Nero Clinton fiddles while rome burns.

How about an investigation on price gouging, or an Iraq timetable?

[saracat]

96. Yeah. SOOO much more important than individual rights.

Why should any women want to live in a country where her rights are less important than gas prices? Sheesh. This disgusts me.