Since "Kenny" is too cowardly to leave a real email address or URL attached to his hateful remarks in my comments, I'll respond to him here.
His comment:
Kenny
There's really nothing to respond to here, actually. It's all hate-filled invective; no substance.
Abortion is not a pleasant procedure; no one wants to have one. What these people fail to realize is it is not abortion that is at issue here, it's choice. Abortions will be performed, they always have been. The question is will a woman have a right to choose to end a pregnancy safely and privately, instead of in a back alley with a coat hanger? Will a woman who's life is at risk because of a pregnancy be legally able to save her own life, or will she be required to martyr herself to the religious beliefs of others?
I would ask Kenny -- if he had the guts to engage in a serious debate -- if he is willing to fund with his tax dollars the care and education of all the unwanted children an abortion ban would produce. Is he prepared to have thousands and thousands of children in this country raised by people who don't want them, see them as a mistake, as a burden? Is he willing to promote contraception, or is this some fantasy where we will promote abstinence and that, somehow, all of a sudden people will stop having spontaneous sex?
It is certainly ironic that most people who hold his views are right-wing and Republican, and therefore a great majority of them support George Bush and the war in Iraq. Preemptive war under false pretenses certainly seems to be at odds with a notion of "respect for life." Not to mention gutting environmental regulations and rules, favoring corporate profits over the health -- and life -- of the entire planet. Is that respect for life? How about the fact that George Bush is personally responsible for ordering death warrants on 150 people in Texas, including the mentally ill?
After Karen Hughes compared pro-choice people to terrorists, we had Randall Terry on CNN. He's the president of the Society for Truth and Justice, which I think is where The Green Lantern works.
So there again we have a ridiculous, insulting, and offensive comparison of pro-choice marchers with history's greatest monsters, this time the Nazis. It is shameful that the anti-choice argument is reduced to such attacks. Their only platform is religion, emotional sucker punches, and baseless attacks. There is no talk about freedom of choice, the health of the mother or the barbaric and deadly conditions that existed before Roe v. Wade, which we would surely be returning to if it were overturned.
Our laws are not perfect and can never perfectly reflect one person's or one group's moral position. The point is to ensure that our citizens have the freedom to choose when it comes to their own bodies and their own lives.
