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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>a cold harded tyrant who is blind to the justice of his own people,

Like a woman murdering her fetal child?  Murderous wretches who simply wish to kill their children because its the easy way out (98% of abortions) don&#039;t deserve much sympathy.  If they are uncivil enough to then go out and get one anyway even when the government is civil enough to outlaw it and they injure or kill themselves in the process then they are only getting what they deserve.  I&#039;m sorry if this sounds unsympathetic, but if you are going to murder someone that helpless and you kill yourself in the process that&#039;s only poetic justice.</description>
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<p>Like a woman murdering her fetal child?  Murderous wretches who simply wish to kill their children because its the easy way out (98% of abortions) don&#8217;t deserve much sympathy.  If they are uncivil enough to then go out and get one anyway even when the government is civil enough to outlaw it and they injure or kill themselves in the process then they are only getting what they deserve.  I&#8217;m sorry if this sounds unsympathetic, but if you are going to murder someone that helpless and you kill yourself in the process that&#8217;s only poetic justice.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3770261', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I remember when all abortions were banned in Nicaragua. There was a girl with a wanted pregnancy who suddendly had severe complications and needed an abortion to save her life, but since the politicans decided that she couldnt have one, she died. This is what will happen as a result of this law. I can see the writing on the wall that women are gonna die in our own country because they couldnt get an abortion to save their life. I cannot find words to describe how I feel about this regime (words sound familiar) just like in animal farm bush (purposley mis-capitalized) and his fellow republican evildoers (sounds familiar again) have become what he claimed his enemy was, a cold harded tyrant who is blind to the justice of his own people, in this case women in there darkest hours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember when all abortions were banned in Nicaragua. There was a girl with a wanted pregnancy who suddendly had severe complications and needed an abortion to save her life, but since the politicans decided that she couldnt have one, she died. This is what will happen as a result of this law. I can see the writing on the wall that women are gonna die in our own country because they couldnt get an abortion to save their life. I cannot find words to describe how I feel about this regime (words sound familiar) just like in animal farm bush (purposley mis-capitalized) and his fellow republican evildoers (sounds familiar again) have become what he claimed his enemy was, a cold harded tyrant who is blind to the justice of his own people, in this case women in there darkest hours.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3761406', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Exley!  It seems my local paper, which utilizes the NYT and Associated Press frequently, did more cutting than pasting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Exley!  It seems my local paper, which utilizes the NYT and Associated Press frequently, did more cutting than pasting.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759766', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Christianity is to be barred as a reason for arguing against something, who exactly does that exclude from public debate?  It excludes far more of the poor than the rich.  If there is a deep issue that is very fundamental, how will typical individuals without a broad liberal arts education describe their opinions?  They arent going to go on about Kant&#039;s categorical imperative or Rawls&#039; &#039;veil of ignorance&#039;.  They are going to put it in terms of the deepest thing that they deal with in their regular lives.  For the poor and middle class more often than the rich, this is some sort of religious service.

Actual biblical injunctions against abortion are indirect at best, and there are organizations that involve religious Christians that argue the opposite, http://www.rcrc.org/ for example.

Likewise, there are athiests who are pro-life.  As the direct biblical references to abortion are thin, there are plenty of reasons totally outside the Christian religion to support abortion restrictions.  A web page resource for anti-abortion athiests appears here: http://www.godlessprolifers.org/

The abortion debate is not about religion.  The religious aspects of it are reflections of the cultural differences between the two sides.  These differences are driven by life circumstance.  Those of lower income have a better understanding of power.

Abortion is about power - but not in the way we&#039;ve been taught to envision.  Consider this - when a person is given a &#039;choice&#039;, what could be the outside influences on that person?  If there is someone more powerful who stands to gain from the person choosing A over B, and the more powerful person can affect the chooser&#039;s circumstances in life, can the chooser realistically select choice B?  The person will have to select choice A - this is not a choice at all.  This is what happens for example when someone &#039;chooses&#039; to accept an extremely low wage job for example, or one with poor working conditions.

Naturally, those who are more likely to relate to the powerful person in this scenario will want to allow the so-called &#039;choice&#039;.  They will inevitably drive home the notion that it is a &#039;choice&#039;, and describe their position as pro-freedom and pro-rights.  Allowing exploitive workplace practices was often called the &#039;right to work&#039;.

If a woman is &#039;choosing&#039; between an abortion or childbirth, what is she to do when faced with an employer who may be unsympathetic to any workplace flexibility, a boyfriend who doesn&#039;t want the responsibility, or parents who will not accept the situation.  Society is likely to have structured her life such that any of those individuals are more powerful than her.  Thus she obtains the abortion.  This was not a choice.

In other situations in which such a &#039;choice&#039; is made in the midst of such power dynamics, the conclusion is usually not to celebrate such a choice as a right.  We already went through situations like this, even involving Supreme Court decisions.  Roughly a century ago, a decision named Lochner v New York overturned a labor law that prohibited undue working hours in a bakery.  It is often compared to Roe because it used similar legal reasoning.  The decision and ones like it are now considered some of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.    

We don&#039;t celebrate the &#039;right&#039; of someone to be exploited, the &#039;right&#039; to prostitution, or the &#039;right&#039; to sweatshop labor.  The left usually understands this on other issues.  In other cases, the response is to prohibit the so called &#039;choice&#039; because it&#039;s understood to be a sham.  I highly doubt that there are massive numbers of women who obtain abortions who look forward to the experience.

So where does this leave us?  We have a two party system in the US.  As it turns out, both parties need to have some wealthy individuals on their side if they are going to win elections - that&#039;s simply reality.  Those who support the poor on clearly economic issues (the left) would be dead-in-the-water politically if they abandoned the support of the wealthier cultural classes who most strongly support abortion legalization.  

What about the right?  are they going to argue that abortion should be restricted because it isn&#039;t a choice in the first place?  They clearly can&#039;t, such a stance would make their own wealthy donors fear the broader implications.  So who do the wealthy conservative donors accept?  The ones that aren&#039;t going to confront them about power dynamics, but those who try arguing with some sort of religions perspective.

Thus we&#039;re left with a nonsensical smokescreen on the right that says this is about religion when it isn&#039;t, and people on the left who argure that women need the &#039;right&#039; to surgery in order to please people they have to deal with.

There is a &quot;reproductive right to work&quot; that is going strong.  The fact that neither the left nor the right has the wherewhithal to combat it is very sad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Christianity is to be barred as a reason for arguing against something, who exactly does that exclude from public debate?  It excludes far more of the poor than the rich.  If there is a deep issue that is very fundamental, how will typical individuals without a broad liberal arts education describe their opinions?  They arent going to go on about Kant&#8217;s categorical imperative or Rawls&#8217; &#8216;veil of ignorance&#8217;.  They are going to put it in terms of the deepest thing that they deal with in their regular lives.  For the poor and middle class more often than the rich, this is some sort of religious service.</p>
<p>Actual biblical injunctions against abortion are indirect at best, and there are organizations that involve religious Christians that argue the opposite, <a href="http://www.rcrc.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rcrc.org/</a> for example.</p>
<p>Likewise, there are athiests who are pro-life.  As the direct biblical references to abortion are thin, there are plenty of reasons totally outside the Christian religion to support abortion restrictions.  A web page resource for anti-abortion athiests appears here: <a href="http://www.godlessprolifers.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.godlessprolifers.org/</a></p>
<p>The abortion debate is not about religion.  The religious aspects of it are reflections of the cultural differences between the two sides.  These differences are driven by life circumstance.  Those of lower income have a better understanding of power.</p>
<p>Abortion is about power &#8211; but not in the way we&#8217;ve been taught to envision.  Consider this &#8211; when a person is given a &#8216;choice&#8217;, what could be the outside influences on that person?  If there is someone more powerful who stands to gain from the person choosing A over B, and the more powerful person can affect the chooser&#8217;s circumstances in life, can the chooser realistically select choice B?  The person will have to select choice A &#8211; this is not a choice at all.  This is what happens for example when someone &#8216;chooses&#8217; to accept an extremely low wage job for example, or one with poor working conditions.</p>
<p>Naturally, those who are more likely to relate to the powerful person in this scenario will want to allow the so-called &#8216;choice&#8217;.  They will inevitably drive home the notion that it is a &#8216;choice&#8217;, and describe their position as pro-freedom and pro-rights.  Allowing exploitive workplace practices was often called the &#8216;right to work&#8217;.</p>
<p>If a woman is &#8216;choosing&#8217; between an abortion or childbirth, what is she to do when faced with an employer who may be unsympathetic to any workplace flexibility, a boyfriend who doesn&#8217;t want the responsibility, or parents who will not accept the situation.  Society is likely to have structured her life such that any of those individuals are more powerful than her.  Thus she obtains the abortion.  This was not a choice.</p>
<p>In other situations in which such a &#8216;choice&#8217; is made in the midst of such power dynamics, the conclusion is usually not to celebrate such a choice as a right.  We already went through situations like this, even involving Supreme Court decisions.  Roughly a century ago, a decision named Lochner v New York overturned a labor law that prohibited undue working hours in a bakery.  It is often compared to Roe because it used similar legal reasoning.  The decision and ones like it are now considered some of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.    </p>
<p>We don&#8217;t celebrate the &#8216;right&#8217; of someone to be exploited, the &#8216;right&#8217; to prostitution, or the &#8216;right&#8217; to sweatshop labor.  The left usually understands this on other issues.  In other cases, the response is to prohibit the so called &#8216;choice&#8217; because it&#8217;s understood to be a sham.  I highly doubt that there are massive numbers of women who obtain abortions who look forward to the experience.</p>
<p>So where does this leave us?  We have a two party system in the US.  As it turns out, both parties need to have some wealthy individuals on their side if they are going to win elections &#8211; that&#8217;s simply reality.  Those who support the poor on clearly economic issues (the left) would be dead-in-the-water politically if they abandoned the support of the wealthier cultural classes who most strongly support abortion legalization.  </p>
<p>What about the right?  are they going to argue that abortion should be restricted because it isn&#8217;t a choice in the first place?  They clearly can&#8217;t, such a stance would make their own wealthy donors fear the broader implications.  So who do the wealthy conservative donors accept?  The ones that aren&#8217;t going to confront them about power dynamics, but those who try arguing with some sort of religions perspective.</p>
<p>Thus we&#8217;re left with a nonsensical smokescreen on the right that says this is about religion when it isn&#8217;t, and people on the left who argure that women need the &#8216;right&#8217; to surgery in order to please people they have to deal with.</p>
<p>There is a &#8220;reproductive right to work&#8221; that is going strong.  The fact that neither the left nor the right has the wherewhithal to combat it is very sad.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759730', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Exley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Exley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#215, Actually, Mark Sherman of The Associated Press did describe the outlawed procedure:

&quot;The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman&#039;s uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.&quot;

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OJ5JLG1&amp;show_article=1</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#215, Actually, Mark Sherman of The Associated Press did describe the outlawed procedure:</p>
<p>&#8220;The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman&#8217;s uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OJ5JLG1&amp;show_article=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OJ5JLG1&amp;show_article=1</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759702', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: valiant venus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/18/supreme-court-hostility/comment-page-5/#comment-3759666</link>
		<dc:creator>valiant venus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was amazed that major &quot;journalists&quot; who reported this story fell hook line and sinker into the liberal miasma of &quot;this will will open the door of women&#039;s rights appeals&quot; and never had the GUTS to describe the &quot;procedure&quot;.  Such phonies....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was amazed that major &#8220;journalists&#8221; who reported this story fell hook line and sinker into the liberal miasma of &#8220;this will will open the door of women&#8217;s rights appeals&#8221; and never had the GUTS to describe the &#8220;procedure&#8221;.  Such phonies&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759666', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hterrya</title>
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		<dc:creator>hterrya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unbelievable, you are off-track and insanely hateful of anyone who disagrees with you about your power and dominance atheism.  You remind me of Exley and Jason M. Hendler.  I leave this ancient thread to you and your power and dominence comrades.  You deserve each other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unbelievable, you are off-track and insanely hateful of anyone who disagrees with you about your power and dominance atheism.  You remind me of Exley and Jason M. Hendler.  I leave this ancient thread to you and your power and dominence comrades.  You deserve each other.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759605', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Exley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Exley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unbelievable,

&quot;Salem Witch Trials?&quot; Wow....That had absolutely nothing to do with Catholicism. Your ignorance of history is surpassed only by your religious bigotry. Your anti-Catholicism is sickening.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unbelievable,</p>
<p>&#8220;Salem Witch Trials?&#8221; Wow&#8230;.That had absolutely nothing to do with Catholicism. Your ignorance of history is surpassed only by your religious bigotry. Your anti-Catholicism is sickening.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759558', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: valiant venus</title>
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		<dc:creator>valiant venus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Supreme Court Rhetoric Reveals Deep â€˜Hostilityâ€™ To Womenâ€™s Rights&quot;
So &lt;strong&gt;what!&lt;/strong&gt; I find the Left&#039;s complicity to kill nearly term babies barbaric - but your PC-ness will be noted by the people who &quot;matter&quot; on the Left.

No, Amanda, The Supreme Courts &quot;rhetoric&#039; reveals deep hostility to a most indecent act of legalized infaticide.  FYI - You might be surprised to learn a Caesarean section is &lt;strong&gt;MUCH &lt;/strong&gt;quicker if the &lt;strong&gt;life of the mother &lt;/strong&gt;or baby is jeopardized.  This infanticide - pure and simple - is opposed by decent people on both sides of the political aisle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Supreme Court Rhetoric Reveals Deep â€˜Hostilityâ€™ To Womenâ€™s Rights&#8221;<br />
So <strong>what!</strong> I find the Left&#8217;s complicity to kill nearly term babies barbaric &#8211; but your PC-ness will be noted by the people who &#8220;matter&#8221; on the Left.</p>
<p>No, Amanda, The Supreme Courts &#8220;rhetoric&#8217; reveals deep hostility to a most indecent act of legalized infaticide.  FYI &#8211; You might be surprised to learn a Caesarean section is <strong>MUCH </strong>quicker if the <strong>life of the mother </strong>or baby is jeopardized.  This infanticide &#8211; pure and simple &#8211; is opposed by decent people on both sides of the political aisle.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3759515', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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