The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105634 Message #2182961
Posted By: Greg B
30-Oct-07 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Amazing conversation with a 19 yr. old..
Subject: RE: BS: Amazing conversation with a 19 yr. old..
I'm always astonished by the 'right to life' types' willingness to hijack any conversation about reproductive health. Here in Bucks County PA, they're running protests in front of Planned Parenthood and not just interfering with women's right to choose what to do with their own bodies. They're interfering and haranguing women going in for things like cervical cancer screenings and other reproductive health screenings and services. So they don't just hijack the conversations, they are hijacking women's health services. Guess it makes 'em feel real important.
Look, if you believe that "life begins at conception" then don't get an abortion. But you can't prove it, no matter how many little beats of developing hearts you show. So stop sticking your nose into other people's reproductive organs (don't you think you're supposed to be married to someone before you stick your nose into her private parts, anyway?) and finding every possible method, honest and dishonest, to interfere with her right to do what she chooses with them, should she happen to believe that "life" begins with extra-utero viability.
We have the Diocese of Trenton now running radio ads against New Jersey's stem-cell research ballot initiative. I hope to hell they lose their tax-exempt status as a result of the campaign.