Well, now that President Bush is packing the Supreme Court with stealth judges, I'm sure the whole abortion debate will once again take center stage.
A good Canary sister in New Jersey sent me an article that throws yet another curve ball into the debate. For 25 years I've been hearing supporters of abortion say, "If you outlaw abortion, women will just turn to back-alley providers and coat hangers."
Oh, but now. This is 25 years later and things have gotten more high-tech. Women will just use a drug called misoprostol, which is normally used for ulcers but works pretty good for abortions. So, really, I'm sure that once abortion is outlawed, a whole cottage industry of high-tech gadgetry and drugs will pop up. The difficulty of getting an abortion will be about the same, whether it's illegal or not.
The Point Being ....
Abortion, along with gays, have become the favorite hot button to mobilize the foot soldiers of the Christian Reich. On every political campaign I've worked on, there's always someone who says, "Where does your candidate stand on abortion?" They ask this even if my candidate is running for city council or county commission — posts that have nothing to do with abortion decisions.
So, before you march off to the polls again to elect another corrupt pro-industry puppet, all in the name of "family values," please educate yourself and ask a few questions:
1) Who are these girls getting abortions?
2) Why are they getting abortions?
3) What is the number of abortions?
4) How can teen pregnancies be prevented?
The Christians blame everything on "the World" and say that morals began to crumble when God was taken out of the schools. But, at the risk of being simplistic, I would say that these are the root causes of abortion:
1) Millions of divorced and broken homes.
2) Parents, especially fathers, not spending enough time with their daughters.
3) Parents not educating their children about sex and its consequences.
Duh, call me stupid. Abortion is a symptom of very serious social problems in our dysfunctional country, and I believe that so many problems can be traced back to a family.
Ms. Bradberry: Abortion is murder. We have to throw all those girls in jail. We have to throw all those abortion doctors in jail. They are murderers.
I don't like abortions either, but I've sat back in amazement to see how crafty politicians have dangled this issue over the unquestioning masses and used it to totally manipulate people to obtain votes.
Here are some real solutions:
1) Fathers being good fathers.
2) Comprehensive sex education.
3) Chilling out our total-sex obsessed society. I mean, what's up with that?
Both the Left and Right are guilty of this great social plague called abortion. The Right only wishes to treat symptoms and use the issue for political posturing. The Left doesn't do enough to sit on Hollywood and the music industry, and TV, and all the other foul outlets of mind numbing humping. Go Tipper Gore! She's my hero!
Even if the court restricts or eliminates the right to an abortion, the often-raised specter of a return to back-alley abortions is not likely to be realized, said Dr. Beverly Winikoff, president of Gynuity Health Services, a nonprofit group that supports access to abortion. "The conditions that existed before 1973 were much different than what they are in 2005," she said. "We have better antibiotics now and better surgical treatments."
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