Republicans Never Delivered Promised Abortion Law Change

Why does anyone think John McCain will make any changes in the abortion law?

As California’s governor, Ronald Reagan signed permissive abortion legislation that leads to many abortions. As a presidential candidate, he pledged to seek an anti-abortion constitutional amendment, but never fought hard for one.

George W. Bush flip-flopped from his earlier stance on abortion when he ran for President. Bush has had 7.5 yrs and a Republican controlled Congress until 2006 – Bush did not achieve a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion.

There is a good article written by a doctor that treated the results of bad abortions: Repairing the Damage, Before Roe By Waldo L. Fielding, M.D.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/views/03essa.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=%22roe%20v.%20wade%22&st=cse&oref=slogin

However, not simply coat hangers were used.

Almost any implement you can imagine had been and was used to start an abortion — darning needles, crochet hooks, cut-glass salt shakers, soda bottles, sometimes intact, sometimes with the top broken off.

Another method that I did not encounter, but heard about from colleagues in other hospitals, was a soap solution forced through the cervical canal with a syringe. This could cause almost immediate death if a bubble in the solution entered a blood vessel and was transported to the heart.

The worst case I saw, and one I hope no one else will ever have to face, was that of a nurse who was admitted with what looked like a partly delivered umbilical cord. Yet as soon as we examined her, we realized that what we thought was the cord was in fact part of her intestine, which had been hooked and torn by whatever implement had been used in the abortion. It took six hours of surgery to remove the infected uterus and ovaries and repair the part of the bowel that was still functional.

It is important to remember that Roe v. Wade did not mean that abortions could be performed. They have always been done, dating from ancient Greek days.

What Roe said was that ending a pregnancy could be carried out by medical personnel, in a medically accepted setting, thus conferring on women, finally, the full rights of first-class citizens — and freeing their doctors to treat them as such.

It is way past time to stop making abortion a one-issue decision for choosing a President. It is time to focus on the economy, Iraq war, gas prices, health care—the things that matter to everyone, except the wealthy that want a President that will make them richer.

is there any enumerated right that is held as absolutely as the made-up unenumerated abortion right?

The separation of church and State.

(Oh, c’mon, I’m KIDDING…)

It is a clearly written Constitutional Right for a 14-year-old girl to have a publicly-financed week-37 abortion on a whim, and have the state lie to her parents about it for her.

Obama’s just following the Constitution. Can’t you guys READ?

On that, we agree. It has grown to encompass so many things so as to make it meaningless.

Greenberg appears to consider the observation Obama’s definitive and comprehensive ruling out of ANY mental health exception. She can label him the most unblushing panderer in recorded history, but that’s one imprecise exhibit.

Abortions would be available to all who chose them without a second thought.

Speculation at best, insulting at worst. I, for one have no objection for abortions performed to save the life of the mother (or perhaps pregnancies due to rape), but better than 99% of all abortions are done at the convenience of the mother, because having a baby would inconvenience her in some way.

Because it’s all about protecting the woman from stretch marks, innit? How about just keeping their fucking legs closed? (No pun intended.) Abstinence has a 100% success rate at preventing pregnancies, not to mention preventing the spread of STDs.

But self-control has never been a big part of the pro-choice arguments…

It’s not whether abortion is a sacrament. It’s that Baracky now is changing his mind on his position about abortion.

And that he supports killing an infant in the process of being born. I find it hard to call that “abortion” unless we also want to call it abortion when we strangle the infant immediately after birth.

However, as long as the act is called “abortion,” then it is off-limits for discussion, I suppose.