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Abortion still has not
liberated women

Washington Times [DC], by Ashley M. Brashear

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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/26/2013 9:59:06 PM

On Jan. 22, our nation commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in America by a 7-2 vote. Steeped in “right to privacy” language, the court ruled that women should have a legal right to abortion. On Friday, hundreds of thousands flocked to the nation’s capitol to commemorate the 55 million lives that have been lost to abortion in the last 40 years, and the mothers and fathers who still bear the scars of their choices. We remembered the 55 million children’s lives lost to abortion, but also that millions

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: pearlyjo, 1/26/2013 10:27:58 PM     (No. 9141431)

Silly rabbits, abortion was never meant to liberate women. It was meant to liberate the other gender; and it has been incredibly successful for them.


Reply 2 - Posted by: bluefindad, 1/26/2013 10:53:35 PM     (No. 9141469)

Actually, abortion has helped to make a lot of women behave like men. "Hooking up" has become a pretty popular pastime.

Unfortunately, all that most have discovered is that you give a bit of yourself in every meaningless sexual encounter. Pretty soon you find there isn´t much left.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 1/26/2013 11:42:05 PM     (No. 9141529)

How could abortion have ever been expected to "liberate" women when all abortion does is MURDER?


Reply 4 - Posted by: LaVallette, 1/27/2013 12:39:00 AM     (No. 9141579)

Abortion has in fact become a tool for men to pressure women into sex objects for the formers sexual gratification with the expectation that any natural issue there from can be eliminated. All rights but no responsibility. The irony is that with the advent of "women liberating" contraception and abortion the rate and nature of sexual relations has radically change to become one of mutual exploitation. At the same time the rate of STD´s and out of wedlock children has exploded.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Ida Lil, 1/27/2013 1:44:29 AM     (No. 9141614)

This is a moving article.
Oh Yeah the culture would have us believe it is all about men and their sexual mores--Well think again.
No one who has watched a young man in the agony of losing his potential child without even a right to protest while tears of loss shakes his entire being accepts that false mess of pottage.
Those same not daddies can even never trust a woman again long enough to seek a real relationship.
while such a young man grieved his equally young sister-in-law cried with him because she could not born the child she wanted so much. The perplexed wife who so easily threw away her child also threw away her marriage on mommy´s advice.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Spidey, 1/27/2013 2:35:24 AM     (No. 9141651)

To me,when you look at white abortionists killing black babies it´s a form of genocide under the cover of a law that´s not even on the books.Instead of being dragged before the Hague for a genocide tribunal,they get paid handsomely by the taxpayers for murdering the black baby.

This isn´t by chance either,it goes back to Margaret Sanger´s war on black babies,so the left never gives up on their most heinous people,no matter how evil they are.

The other leg of abortion is taking God out of the equation.Abortion is aout the coldest slap in God´s face you can make but if you don´t believe in God,you don´t fear retribution.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Aunt Agnes, 1/27/2013 4:52:22 AM     (No. 9141718)

I have relatives who raised their own children, several foster kids & even managed to take in & raise another family member´s children when she was going through severe depression. They loved having a house full of kids & never saw them as a burden. Growing up, I remember being dismayed that they seemed to have too many kids to manage - I thought their family situation was unseemly & chaotic. Today, the mom & dad are elderly & are having health problems. Each of their children, who all live close by, take turns spending the night with them throughout the week. This distributes the care-giving responsibility & greatly comforts the parents who no longer drive. I now think their situation is ideal. Large families tend to take care of each other. Children may seem like a burden to the young, but they sure come in handy when you are old & lonely.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 1/27/2013 7:01:31 AM     (No. 9141792)

One day I saw a TV program called The Long Island Medium. She is like John Edwards in that it is hard to disbelieve her. In this episode a woman had come to her to see if she could contact her deceased child. The Medium said she saw someone showing her two blankets, one blue, one pink. The woman said sheepishly, "one was a death and one was a termination". She had not counted the termination as a child.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 1/27/2013 8:39:40 AM     (No. 9141919)

As we are being made to live within a secular society now, makes it a lot easier for people to make others (i.e., the gummint) responsible for the bad decisions the people make. Like we are surprised that belief in the Creator is being replaced by obeyance to and faith in the State. Big difference, no?


Reply 10 - Posted by: realrep, 1/27/2013 8:41:00 AM     (No. 9141922)

Have you ever read ´Heaven is for Real´? It´s the story of a 3 year old boy who has a heavenly experience while in surgery. About a year later, the boy tells his mother who had a miscarriage prior to the birth of the boy, that he had met the sister in heaven. Jesus´ father adopted her. The little boy did not know of his mother´s miscarriage prior to meeting the sister. Book is easy to read.


Reply 11 - Posted by: eoddad, 1/27/2013 8:45:56 AM     (No. 9141930)

Well Femanazis you took the Ladies off the pedestal and put them in a fox hole. As usual with leftist the law of unintended consequences has not provided fulfillment, happiness or liberated women, soon they may have to get a draft card. Welcome to the "Hookup" "Oral Sex isn´t sex" world where the Bill Clinton´s Rule and nobody like the opposite that well.


Reply 12 - Posted by: OhMy, 1/27/2013 9:00:52 AM     (No. 9141965)

Many excellent posts here. Abortion is mens liberation making it possible for them to avoid responsibility and never become real men. It is also black genocide fulfilling Margaret Sangers racist, elitist, hitlerian eugenecist vision of purifying the gene pool of inferior life.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: BetseyRoss, 1/27/2013 9:31:00 AM     (No. 9142020)

Even Roe in the infamous case has decried her arbortion. She was shocked at the emotional repercussions that she experienced by having an abortion. About 20 years ago I saw her on a news program telling her story. It was short and sad. If she had it to do over again, she wouldn´t. She isn´t the only one. Pretty damning testimony.


Reply 14 - Posted by: knowThem, 1/27/2013 9:51:26 AM     (No. 9142052)

an excellent read "In reality, Roe v. Wade imprisons women by denying the very apex of femininity: the bearing and nurturing life".
I have even read the comments below and would put them 50% vs. 50% with the left repeating garbage about all those poor neglected kids. The problem with poor kids as we know is Government bureaucracies which tie up money meant to help them and their parents, foster parents using said $ for their own gratification. This year during 2013 MFL my hopes were confirmed the tide is turning. Forget the MSM those kids who were 5 yr ago in High School are now in colleges, I have seen them then and I saw them now. 300 people from Nashville, TN driving 12 hr in buses, Arizona, TX and many more. 10 years ago I didn´t see banners of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt. This genocide will end thanks to the Pro-Life generation.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 1/27/2013 9:55:09 AM     (No. 9142062)

If back in the fifties Hugh Hefner had predicted our current situation, with "hooking up," the public discussion of oral sex (because the President did it), and easy abortion, it would have been thought to be the wild dreams of a sexual deviant.

Now we have a world that no one could have predicted, and 55,000,000 dead babies.

As #1 said, all the benefits accrue to the men, with easy sex and no responsibility--so we have a society of grown men who act like frat boys.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Old Army Vet, 1/27/2013 11:14:32 AM     (No. 9142251)

"Abortion still has not liberated women". Of course not, murder never liberates anyone.


Reply 17 - Posted by: chicodon, 1/27/2013 11:39:45 AM     (No. 9142301)

This won´t be popular, but the end result is a demographic shift in this country. The lack of a replacement population for a growing economy meant that workers would flood the country to fill the vacuum. Many from Asia and Latin America. Families even a couple of generations ago had six or so offspring (my great grand parents had 10). Then it dropped to three and who knows where it is now. Let´s ask Obama if he cares.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: jlw509, 1/27/2013 1:03:42 PM     (No. 9142443)

Think: natural and logical consequences.

You spent 20 years impairing your normal procreative power via conrtaceptive drugs and devices? Voila, hundreds of thousands of infertile women looking for expensive (and often futile) reproductive repair tenchnologies.

We spent 30 years avoiding, evading, deconstructing and devaluing marriage? Now you can´t find a decent marriage partner for love nor money.

We spent 40 years establishing the legal "principle" that human lives we think are a bother can simply be "terminated"? Behold terminal care in the UK and soon in the USA: sedate the old, cut off their nutrition/hydration and let them starve to death.

A society that´s killed 55 million of its children? Perhaps there´s a power (or Power) out there that could give us all the chance to play the fetus, and scrape us off the surface of the earth.


Reply 19 - Posted by: John318, 1/27/2013 1:25:08 PM     (No. 9142468)

God said to Cain "What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother´s blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother´s blood from thy hand;the blood of his brother, who he killed cried out to heaven." Gen. 4:11,12
What must the voice of 55 million babies blood sound like in the ears of God? What curse/curses of God must America now be under?


Reply 20 - Posted by: janylou, 1/27/2013 2:15:24 PM     (No. 9142545)

This was a letter to the editor in a local paper. "All this talk about gun control has got me thinking. Gun control legislation is to the Democrats as anti-abortion legislation is to the Republicans. Some people think the two are completely different.

For example, guns are violent and inflict death on innocent children, whereas abortion ... better forget that one — I guess there is no difference here.

The current popular paradigm in our country is to ban all guns, you know, protect innocent bystanders and little children from the nut with a gun.

Another popular paradigm is to keep abortion free (at taxpayers’ expense) and readily accessible.

What is the difference you may ask? With abortion, the bystanders are safe, while it is only innocent babies who are slaughtered (over 50 million since 1973).

As you can probably tell, I don’t see much difference between the arguing that is occurring about anti-gun legislation and anti-abortion legislation with the exception that by outlawing abortion we might actually do something to protect the lives of innocent children.

I see an area for compromise here. I would be willing to give up some of my gun rights if the federal government (and pro choice people) would be willing to give up some of their rights to free and unobstructed access to abortion.

After all, I strongly believe that if all this bickering between the president and pro-gun Americans is truly about protecting innocent children (from being murdered at another person’s hand) then the unborn innocent need to be included in the dialogue too."


Reply 21 - Posted by: Curmudgeon1, 1/27/2013 3:31:42 PM     (No. 9142691)

Guns don´t kill people ...
Abortion does.

Any questions?

thecolonel


Reply 22 - Posted by: knarfski, 1/27/2013 3:32:32 PM     (No. 9142693)

Thanks #20.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: tomanderson61, 1/27/2013 4:22:46 PM     (No. 9142768)

I am with you #20. I am willing not to have a submachine gun, rocket launcher, and flame thrower if they are willing to give up all abortions except in the case that it will physically kill the mother.

That works for me.


Reply 24 - Posted by: mominNoCA, 1/27/2013 5:21:51 PM     (No. 9142889)

#1,

Spot on. One of the most enthusiastic supporters of abortion was "saintly Catholic" Teddy Kennedy. Since he allegedly bedded thousands of women, the paternity suits resulting from only a few of the bimbos getting knocked up would have bankrupted him. No one can tell me he didn´t have a personal stake in the issue.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Japanorama, 1/27/2013 6:08:20 PM     (No. 9142983)

55,000,000 American children have been aborted since 1973.
One of those children might have cured the disease that will kill you some day.


Reply 26 - Posted by: peterfleming, 1/27/2013 6:34:02 PM     (No. 9143030)

Massive government welfare murder, paid for by forcefully extracting money from citizens


Reply 27 - Posted by: Mollygoose, 1/27/2013 7:59:08 PM     (No. 9143139)

#13, McCorvey never actually had an abortion. She put the child up for adoption.



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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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