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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:53 AM
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Poll question: How Important Is The Abortion Issue To You?
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 06:55 AM by rucky
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:18 AM
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1. If the government has a right to control a woman's reproductive
rights, this could set a dangerous precedent into other areas of health care also. If we lose any of our freedoms, it threatens them all.
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IdaBriggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:28 AM
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2. Keep YOUR Religion Out of MY Medicine!!!
2% of all pregnancies are ectopic or tubal == DEATH SENTENCE.

I get that some religious fruit loops believe 'the will of the Lord is that some women die' -- yes, I've heard that line -- but I'm going to stick to simple ideas --

Your Religious Whack Job Ocrocy does NOT belong in my medicine. End of Story.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:40 AM
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10. I have a condition that greatly increases my chances of a tubal pregnancy
So this is an issue that worries me greatly :(
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yy4me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:37 AM
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3. None of the governments blinking business,
simple as that!
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:51 AM
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4. I decided for myself,
a long time ago, that I wasn't going to be caught and had my tubes tied (the only procedure the doctor would do because I was so young).

Even though I'm unaffected personally, it's still important to me because lawmakers should NEVER be in a position to decide medical issues.

What about our future generations ... what recourse are they going to have? Parents won't talk about sex, won't give condoms or birth control, so what's going to happen when they get pregnant? Back alley abortions? Too bad we don't know the old ways, with herbs and roots, to make sure pregnancies don't occur.

I keep trying to think of a movement that would make the lawmakers realize that abortions are not their issue - like women not having sex any more - but it's going to take all women to make a stand like that.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:03 AM
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5. While I personally am not directly effected by it (since I'm a male and
if I ever became pregnant we'd have a REALLY weird topic for discussion), BUT, there several issues involved with any major anti-abortion ruling. You can begin with the health of the woman, and continue on down to the right to privacy issue which is at the core of Roe v. Wade. Once you chip away at that right to privacy, you do so across the board, not just for one issue.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:18 AM
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6. I consider it a human rights issue - and human rights are very
important to me

Abortion isn't just a medical procedure. It's about the person-hood of women. It's about women having worth in society. If a society denies us our right to control our own lives, then said society does not respect us as humans - as people. Such a society looks down on women and holds them as chattel - sees them as second-class - not worthy of full rights. And a society that would deny me my freedom is a society that is my enemy.

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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:27 AM
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7. Absolutely right!
"I consider it a human rights issue". Maybe THE civil rights issue. This is so fundamentally important that I will admit that I am completely closed to any compromise. A woman's right to self determination is an inalienable right as far as I am concerned...
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:31 AM
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8. I am closed to any compromise as well - besides
why would you compromise your rights away? I might as well embrace the Patriot Act,cheer the police state, and kiss Bush's ring. It would be exactly the same.

"A woman's right to self determination is an inalienable right as far as I am concerned..."

Exactly!
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:32 AM
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9. It's not about abortion, it's about privacy...
And the right to privacy should be important to all Americans, liberal and conservative.

Sid
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:59 AM
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11. For me it's not just about abortion, it is about
the govt, state or federal, trying to regulate my organs and how they are put to use. I might feel differently if such a thing didn't take an entire year out of my life and affect my body's function and my pocketbook.

It is about controlling women and domination and religion. The abortion issue forces religious perspectives on others.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:02 AM
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12. The "abortion issue" is an exemplar of everything else.
You're either *FOR* human rights (in a full, broad-spectrum sort of
way) or you're a Republican or a do-nothing Democratic Wuss*.

This counts everything including minority rights, women's rights,
gay rights, the right to an education, a job, a home, food, and
health care.

Abortion is a handy exemplar of this; those who oppose abortion
rights usually fail one or more of the rest of the tests as well;
they seem to live by the motto "Breed 'em but don't feed 'em!"

Tesha

*Note that not all elected Democrats are do-nothing wusses, just
most Democrats elected at the Federal level.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:17 AM
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13. So why aren't WE fighting back for Universal Healthcare?
seems like an issue most people can get behind. it baffles me that this is not discussed everywhere in America & Washington, every day.
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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:45 AM
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15. Good question. (n/t)
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:50 AM
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16. Probably because Dems get contributions too from big health/big pharma.
> So why aren't WE fighting back for Universal Healthcare?
> Seems like an issue most people can get behind. it baffles
> me that this is not discussed everywhere in America & Washington,
> every day.

Probably because Dems (as well as Republicans) get huge contributions
from big health care/big pharma/big health insurance companies. They
serve the people that buy them. And that ain't us.

Tesha
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:40 AM
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14. when women don't have personal rights, nothing can be right


male stupidity is killing the world
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Donald Ian Rankin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:58 AM
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18. Hmm.

If, like me, you'd been born and grown up in the UK in the late 70s or early 80s you might not be optimistic about the degree of improvement achievable simply by putting women in high office. I'm sure they wouldn't do much worse, but they don't seem to do much better either.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:51 AM
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17. very important because
it is an indicator of societys attitude toward women

I would personally never have an abortion , but I will be damned if I will tell another woman she can't I have not walked in her shoes
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:10 PM
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19. I say to me it's the single most important issue...
And here's why.

If my Candidate is pro-choice, then I can usually count on him/her being in step with alot of my political ideaology.

I also think it is EXTREMELY important that the government keep their hands off of our bodies, and I really just cannot think of anything more important than that quite honestly.
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