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	<title>Comments on: Thompson: Late-Term Abortion Is &#8216;Infanticide,&#8217; Roe v. Wade Most Harmful Court Case In 40 Years</title>
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		<title>By: Keith Vancuran</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3869244</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Vancuran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For all of the arguments about a woman&#039;s right to choose, I have one response. Women make the choice when they have sex. If you choose to engage in an activity that you full well know can result in a pregnancy, you must be prepared to accept those consequences. If you are not willing to accept them, than it is your responsibility to abstain from sex, or use at least 2-forms of birth control faithfully.
There is no excuse for an abortion outside the instances of rape, incest and irreparable harm to the mother&#039;s health, and emotional health should not be included in this. 
I am a physician who delivers babies, and there is no instance ever shown where a partial birth abortion is ever indicated. The woman is just as safe if the baby is delivered alive. To say otherwise is to be untruthful and is thusly unethical.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For all of the arguments about a woman&#8217;s right to choose, I have one response. Women make the choice when they have sex. If you choose to engage in an activity that you full well know can result in a pregnancy, you must be prepared to accept those consequences. If you are not willing to accept them, than it is your responsibility to abstain from sex, or use at least 2-forms of birth control faithfully.<br />
There is no excuse for an abortion outside the instances of rape, incest and irreparable harm to the mother&#8217;s health, and emotional health should not be included in this.<br />
I am a physician who delivers babies, and there is no instance ever shown where a partial birth abortion is ever indicated. The woman is just as safe if the baby is delivered alive. To say otherwise is to be untruthful and is thusly unethical.<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=3869244', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: chen bo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3865979</link>
		<dc:creator>chen bo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you found a human being growing inside you, what would you do?

I wonder what would happen if the fetus could be transfered to the fatherâ€™s body?</description>
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<p>I wonder what would happen if the fetus could be transfered to the fatherâ€™s body?<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=3865979', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Edge</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3863277</link>
		<dc:creator>Edge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So Fred isn&#039;t technically incorrect.  &quot;Abortion&quot; is a popular renaming of &quot;early infanticide&quot;.  In either case, a child born/unborn loses its life.  The fact that some actually want to split hairs on the &quot;born/unborn&quot; issue is incredulous on many specific and scientific levels.  To a biology major it&#039;s not even worth arguing.  

So a woman&#039;s right to choose murder has been legal for over 30 years.  If you want to argue that, I feel sorry for you.  You should have learned the difference between right and wrong when in grade school and not from an activist supreme court that history continues to correct.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Fred isn&#8217;t technically incorrect.  &#8220;Abortion&#8221; is a popular renaming of &#8220;early infanticide&#8221;.  In either case, a child born/unborn loses its life.  The fact that some actually want to split hairs on the &#8220;born/unborn&#8221; issue is incredulous on many specific and scientific levels.  To a biology major it&#8217;s not even worth arguing.  </p>
<p>So a woman&#8217;s right to choose murder has been legal for over 30 years.  If you want to argue that, I feel sorry for you.  You should have learned the difference between right and wrong when in grade school and not from an activist supreme court that history continues to correct.<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=3863277', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: loretta</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3862950</link>
		<dc:creator>loretta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I guess the only thing to do here is this:
Ladies: mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts:
Please tell all young females in your families to do some research before they involve themselves with potential partners--
ask these young men what their opinions are in this argument.  Any man who indicates that YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to decide for yourself is NOT someone you should allow into your temple.
At some point in the future, we can prove Darwin&#039;s theory of evolution by breedng this oppressive gene OUT of the species.
Then, we have EVOLVED.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess the only thing to do here is this:<br />
Ladies: mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts:<br />
Please tell all young females in your families to do some research before they involve themselves with potential partners&#8211;<br />
ask these young men what their opinions are in this argument.  Any man who indicates that YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to decide for yourself is NOT someone you should allow into your temple.<br />
At some point in the future, we can prove Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution by breedng this oppressive gene OUT of the species.<br />
Then, we have EVOLVED.<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=3862950', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: loretta</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3862948</link>
		<dc:creator>loretta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I definitely think an unborn baby should have more rights than a protected species.&quot;

Comment by joe â€” June 16, 2007 @ 11:46 am

Hi, Joe--
Let me ask you something.  Let&#039;s just go this route, for the sake of argument.  Let&#039;s say that your &quot;plumbing&quot;
has some kind of sensor built in that counts the number of your little guys released that turned into a viable fetus.... and the more &quot;hits&quot; the little counter records, your testicles begin to stretch and drag lower and lower. You have to wear specially constructed garments, summer and winter, to contain and secure this stretched flesh mashed against your body.   The rest  your body starts to break down from the inside out, and before you know it, you are having intrusive surgery to remove internal organs and maybe even sections of your ravaged bladder.
The removal of said organs also affect your &quot;manhood&quot; so you take hormones so that you don&#039;t begint to morph into the opposite sex.  
Later, those hormones give you cancer........sounds OK to you?
I really do not understand why this issue is argued so loudly by MEN, when they really do not suffer any of he consequences--except financial (MAYBE), of course.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I definitely think an unborn baby should have more rights than a protected species.&#8221;</p>
<p>Comment by joe â€” June 16, 2007 @ 11:46 am</p>
<p>Hi, Joe&#8211;<br />
Let me ask you something.  Let&#8217;s just go this route, for the sake of argument.  Let&#8217;s say that your &#8220;plumbing&#8221;<br />
has some kind of sensor built in that counts the number of your little guys released that turned into a viable fetus&#8230;. and the more &#8220;hits&#8221; the little counter records, your testicles begin to stretch and drag lower and lower. You have to wear specially constructed garments, summer and winter, to contain and secure this stretched flesh mashed against your body.   The rest  your body starts to break down from the inside out, and before you know it, you are having intrusive surgery to remove internal organs and maybe even sections of your ravaged bladder.<br />
The removal of said organs also affect your &#8220;manhood&#8221; so you take hormones so that you don&#8217;t begint to morph into the opposite sex.<br />
Later, those hormones give you cancer&#8230;&#8230;..sounds OK to you?<br />
I really do not understand why this issue is argued so loudly by MEN, when they really do not suffer any of he consequences&#8211;except financial (MAYBE), of course.<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=3862948', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Valerie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3862288</link>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Flip flop! Flip flop!                                                                                                      http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2007/06/11/once-a-pro-choice-skirt-chaser-now-standard-bearer-of-the-religious-right/</description>
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		<title>By: joe</title>
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		<dc:creator>joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sorry, I only read up to comment 140-ish, but how come no one mentioned the issue that Thompson is addressing? 

&lt;blockquote&gt;
THOMPSON: No. I think Roe was fabricated out of whole cloth. I think it represents a bigger problem with the federal judiciary, and that is that too many people get up and decide one day that they want to change social policy in this country that has been there for a couple hundred years. In this case, it was not only bad law, it was bad medicine. I mean, we know a lot of things now about all that that we didnâ€™t even know them. And it was another example of thwarting the notion of federalism, which is an integral part of our constitution â€” taking things away from the states to decide, by the people, on a local basis, and &lt;strong&gt;having a few men in black robes make those decisions&lt;/strong&gt;. So itâ€™s not only the substance of the decision, but the symbolic effect that it had.

Q: So your position on abortion would be overturn Roe, and put it back to the states. &lt;strong&gt;Let the states decide.&lt;/strong&gt;

THOMPSON: Yeah.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

He&#039;s talking about how it is not supposed to be a LAW about abortion, but the judges, who are only supposed to uphold the LAW, pretty much created their own law through this decision. Roe vs Wade pretty much said that laws against abortion are unconstitutional, because of people&#039;s &quot;right to privacy,&quot; which is not in the constitution (prove me wrong if you disagree). 
In this argument, I think Thompson is arguing: Judges are not lawmakers, let the states make their own laws about abortion. If someone can or can&#039;t have an abortion let it be because of the laws created by elected officials, rather than unelected judges. That to me sounds much more patriotic and democratic than what people are saying about him.
My opinion on abortion: privacy rights should be protected, people should have a choice UNLESS it conflicts with someone else&#039;s rights. Therefore if the unborn baby has rights, personal choice shouldn&#039;t supercede it. and I definitely think an unborn baby should have more rights than a protected species.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sorry, I only read up to comment 140-ish, but how come no one mentioned the issue that Thompson is addressing? </p>
<blockquote><p>
THOMPSON: No. I think Roe was fabricated out of whole cloth. I think it represents a bigger problem with the federal judiciary, and that is that too many people get up and decide one day that they want to change social policy in this country that has been there for a couple hundred years. In this case, it was not only bad law, it was bad medicine. I mean, we know a lot of things now about all that that we didnâ€™t even know them. And it was another example of thwarting the notion of federalism, which is an integral part of our constitution â€” taking things away from the states to decide, by the people, on a local basis, and <strong>having a few men in black robes make those decisions</strong>. So itâ€™s not only the substance of the decision, but the symbolic effect that it had.</p>
<p>Q: So your position on abortion would be overturn Roe, and put it back to the states. <strong>Let the states decide.</strong></p>
<p>THOMPSON: Yeah.
</p></blockquote>
<p>He&#8217;s talking about how it is not supposed to be a LAW about abortion, but the judges, who are only supposed to uphold the LAW, pretty much created their own law through this decision. Roe vs Wade pretty much said that laws against abortion are unconstitutional, because of people&#8217;s &#8220;right to privacy,&#8221; which is not in the constitution (prove me wrong if you disagree).<br />
In this argument, I think Thompson is arguing: Judges are not lawmakers, let the states make their own laws about abortion. If someone can or can&#8217;t have an abortion let it be because of the laws created by elected officials, rather than unelected judges. That to me sounds much more patriotic and democratic than what people are saying about him.<br />
My opinion on abortion: privacy rights should be protected, people should have a choice UNLESS it conflicts with someone else&#8217;s rights. Therefore if the unborn baby has rights, personal choice shouldn&#8217;t supercede it. and I definitely think an unborn baby should have more rights than a protected species.<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=3861547', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: USNVET</title>
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		<dc:creator>USNVET</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This assclown is against abortion??

That makes him suicidal as, he IS one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This assclown is against abortion??</p>
<p>That makes him suicidal as, he IS one.<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=3861410', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3861399</link>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; bad law.  I think people should have the right to an abortion, but I think the decision was incorrect as a matter of law.  As a lawyer, I think he would be better suited to judge court decisions than people who are only looking at it as policy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it <em>was</em> bad law.  I think people should have the right to an abortion, but I think the decision was incorrect as a matter of law.  As a lawyer, I think he would be better suited to judge court decisions than people who are only looking at it as policy.<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=3861399', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Karim</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3861344</link>
		<dc:creator>Karim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Men,

If you found a human being growing inside you, what would you do?

I wonder what would happen if the fetus could be transfered to the fatherâ€™s body?&lt;/em&gt;

That is something that I have always asked.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Men,</p>
<p>If you found a human being growing inside you, what would you do?</p>
<p>I wonder what would happen if the fetus could be transfered to the fatherâ€™s body?</em></p>
<p>That is something that I have always asked.<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=3861344', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Trogdor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Trogdor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why some people think it&#039;s ok to kill babies just because they&#039;re smaller than the rest of us is beyond me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why some people think it&#8217;s ok to kill babies just because they&#8217;re smaller than the rest of us is beyond me.<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=3861325', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Martin Gifford</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3861230</link>
		<dc:creator>Martin Gifford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Men,

If you found a human being growing inside you, what would you do?

I wonder what would happen if the fetus could be transfered to the father&#039;s body?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Men,</p>
<p>If you found a human being growing inside you, what would you do?</p>
<p>I wonder what would happen if the fetus could be transfered to the father&#8217;s body?<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=3861230', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lora</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3861096</link>
		<dc:creator>Lora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On topic, the funniest aspect of the punditsâ€™ collective chubby for Fred Thompson is that theyâ€™re trying to sell him as â€œruggedly handsome.â€ Women, what do you think? My opinion is he looks like a cross between a troll and a basset hound, with possibly a little conehead blood mixed in there somewhere.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper 

To answer your question, if Fred Thompson were the only man available, I would choose to remain celibate.
There are all sorts of tastes in this world, but so far I haven&#039;t seen any posts from women or fake women, other than those from the vilevenus/mightyhypocrite troll, here admiring Fred Thompson.  I am quite sure he would not have a young trophy wife with those looks if he were just Fred, your local grocer or shoe-repairman.  Perhaps only closeted middle-aged men with homoerotic fantasies find Brain-dead Fred &quot;ruggedly handsome.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On topic, the funniest aspect of the punditsâ€™ collective chubby for Fred Thompson is that theyâ€™re trying to sell him as â€œruggedly handsome.â€ Women, what do you think? My opinion is he looks like a cross between a troll and a basset hound, with possibly a little conehead blood mixed in there somewhere.<br />
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper </p>
<p>To answer your question, if Fred Thompson were the only man available, I would choose to remain celibate.<br />
There are all sorts of tastes in this world, but so far I haven&#8217;t seen any posts from women or fake women, other than those from the vilevenus/mightyhypocrite troll, here admiring Fred Thompson.  I am quite sure he would not have a young trophy wife with those looks if he were just Fred, your local grocer or shoe-repairman.  Perhaps only closeted middle-aged men with homoerotic fantasies find Brain-dead Fred &#8220;ruggedly handsome.&#8221;<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=3861096', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: s smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>s smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most abortions in America are done not to save the mothers life, not because the fetus is dead or non-viable, but because the woman does not want to be pregnant. Life is not fair. Women get pregnant, men don&#039;t. Men can walk away, women cannot. This is reality. Killing someone because they don&#039;t fit into your plans is the ultimate selfish act. I am a mom of 2, and one of my children is totally disabled. I would not give up a minute with either child, I cherish them.
A fetus is not a part of the mother&#039;s body. You can say it&#039;s her body, it&#039;s her right all you want, but in reality it just isn&#039;t true. 
If you don&#039;t want to be in the intensely painful position of being pregnant and not wanting to be, then don&#039;t get pregnant. Seriously. If you would kill to get out of having a child, then there are other things you can do that are less drastic to keep yourself from being in that position. Yes, there are kids conceived by rape, and there are a lot of other dire circumstances that make up about 1 percent of all abortions - and these cases might morally be best treated by terminating the pregnancy. But for the vast majority of the cases, it is very tragic that we have decided it is OK to kill a child because they are inconvenient, or would &quot;ruin&quot; the mother&#039;s life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most abortions in America are done not to save the mothers life, not because the fetus is dead or non-viable, but because the woman does not want to be pregnant. Life is not fair. Women get pregnant, men don&#8217;t. Men can walk away, women cannot. This is reality. Killing someone because they don&#8217;t fit into your plans is the ultimate selfish act. I am a mom of 2, and one of my children is totally disabled. I would not give up a minute with either child, I cherish them.<br />
A fetus is not a part of the mother&#8217;s body. You can say it&#8217;s her body, it&#8217;s her right all you want, but in reality it just isn&#8217;t true.<br />
If you don&#8217;t want to be in the intensely painful position of being pregnant and not wanting to be, then don&#8217;t get pregnant. Seriously. If you would kill to get out of having a child, then there are other things you can do that are less drastic to keep yourself from being in that position. Yes, there are kids conceived by rape, and there are a lot of other dire circumstances that make up about 1 percent of all abortions &#8211; and these cases might morally be best treated by terminating the pregnancy. But for the vast majority of the cases, it is very tragic that we have decided it is OK to kill a child because they are inconvenient, or would &#8220;ruin&#8221; the mother&#8217;s life.<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=3861041', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: joetherugger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3860961</link>
		<dc:creator>joetherugger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>views on abortion aside Roe V. Wade is bad law because it was based on a constitutional principal, the right to privacy, which is not in the constitution, any law claiming constitutionality based on something not in the constitution is bad law

also it claims this basis to support another fundamental flaw which is that it bases itself on the idea that noone knows when life as a human person begins, now if this is true one would believe the law should error on the side of safety and give the benefit of the doubt to it beginning at conception rather than risk infanticide which it would be if what we dont know ends up being that life begins at conception</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>views on abortion aside Roe V. Wade is bad law because it was based on a constitutional principal, the right to privacy, which is not in the constitution, any law claiming constitutionality based on something not in the constitution is bad law</p>
<p>also it claims this basis to support another fundamental flaw which is that it bases itself on the idea that noone knows when life as a human person begins, now if this is true one would believe the law should error on the side of safety and give the benefit of the doubt to it beginning at conception rather than risk infanticide which it would be if what we dont know ends up being that life begins at conception<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=3860961', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rafael</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3860954</link>
		<dc:creator>rafael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>republicans and democrats are all the same, they want a one world government. if you want new ideas brought forth we need to vote for Ron Paul. These issues are old, health care, abortion, immigration, the poor,what have you i heard them time and time again, and we are still on the same issues and nothing ever gets done. wake up America, your country is been given away, go to infowars.com Alex Jones will change the way you think. If that is not good enough read some of David Ickes books. to all of you i say wake up. save your country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>republicans and democrats are all the same, they want a one world government. if you want new ideas brought forth we need to vote for Ron Paul. These issues are old, health care, abortion, immigration, the poor,what have you i heard them time and time again, and we are still on the same issues and nothing ever gets done. wake up America, your country is been given away, go to infowars.com Alex Jones will change the way you think. If that is not good enough read some of David Ickes books. to all of you i say wake up. save your country.<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=3860954', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Stella Octangula</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3860843</link>
		<dc:creator>Stella Octangula</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is wrong. If you donâ€™t provide a link to show that I will consider it retracted.

Comment by yep

I said it was at 16% BEFORE the Democrats took control, which has been shown to be absolutely correct. What part of BEFORE the election do you NOT understand?  I did not quote a specific date before the election.

And if you care to read back even further, you will find my opinion of when I think life (I think therefore I am) actually begins.

Besides, I am talking about the thing you should, as a conservative, know about. And thats your SOUL or SPIRIT. You know the thing that goes wafting off into heaven when we pass on? Further if you read into my name you should be able to figure out that Stella Octangula refers to the Merkaba. Which happens to be a shape much like the Star of David.  

Mer-Ka- Ba

google it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is wrong. If you donâ€™t provide a link to show that I will consider it retracted.</p>
<p>Comment by yep</p>
<p>I said it was at 16% BEFORE the Democrats took control, which has been shown to be absolutely correct. What part of BEFORE the election do you NOT understand?  I did not quote a specific date before the election.</p>
<p>And if you care to read back even further, you will find my opinion of when I think life (I think therefore I am) actually begins.</p>
<p>Besides, I am talking about the thing you should, as a conservative, know about. And thats your SOUL or SPIRIT. You know the thing that goes wafting off into heaven when we pass on? Further if you read into my name you should be able to figure out that Stella Octangula refers to the Merkaba. Which happens to be a shape much like the Star of David.  </p>
<p>Mer-Ka- Ba</p>
<p>google it.<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=3860843', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Scramblejams</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3860815</link>
		<dc:creator>Scramblejams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A note to everyone on either side of this debate in a tizzy about Roe v Wade: It doesn&#039;t matter. What&#039;s that? Yeah, it doesn&#039;t matter. Because if Roe v Wade is overturned, it&#039;s gonna be about .21 milliseconds before every state in this country, a few toward the middle possibly excepted, pass their own version of Roe v Wade, and the world of abortion will carry on as before without missing a beat. I&#039;d suggest perhaps using some of this passion and zeal to focus on issues where a change at the federal level will actually produce a change out in the real world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A note to everyone on either side of this debate in a tizzy about Roe v Wade: It doesn&#8217;t matter. What&#8217;s that? Yeah, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Because if Roe v Wade is overturned, it&#8217;s gonna be about .21 milliseconds before every state in this country, a few toward the middle possibly excepted, pass their own version of Roe v Wade, and the world of abortion will carry on as before without missing a beat. I&#8217;d suggest perhaps using some of this passion and zeal to focus on issues where a change at the federal level will actually produce a change out in the real world.<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=3860815', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hellinabucket</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3860813</link>
		<dc:creator>hellinabucket</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who says any one of the 30 million would do the work that other americans don&#039;t want to do now?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who says any one of the 30 million would do the work that other americans don&#8217;t want to do now?<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=3860813', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rafael</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/15/thompson-choice/comment-page-5/#comment-3860789</link>
		<dc:creator>rafael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>here are the facts, there has been about 30 million babies killed since roe vs wade was passed in to law. now we need 20 million immigrants to keep up with the workforce.  yeah lets keep killing our brothers and sisters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>here are the facts, there has been about 30 million babies killed since roe vs wade was passed in to law. now we need 20 million immigrants to keep up with the workforce.  yeah lets keep killing our brothers and sisters.<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=3860789', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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