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Pro-Choice Group Targets Senate In New TV Ads
Evan McMorris-Santoro | November 16, 2009, 10:57AM
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI)
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Most would agree that abortion is no laughing matter. And in a new television ad campaign launching tomorrow, one pro-choice group says the notion abortion rights are under attack in the health care reform debate is no joke.
The Center For Reproductive Rights is responsible for the ads, which urge the Senate to drop the abortion provisions found inserted into the House health reform bill through the Stupak amendment. "Don't let Congress ban abortion coverage millions of American women already have," the ad reads.
A spokesperson for the Center said the ads will run in the DC market on air and and cable at first, though the group expects that will "grow" in the future. The ad is also part of a new national online campaign the group is launching this week.
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SocialJusticeForAll
November 16, 2009 12:08 PM
Who is the voice for the unborn in this debate?
Who saw abused children when child-labor laws were needed; slaves when they were viewed as chattel; Jewish people when they were viewed as “lesser people” and subject to the Holocaust?
Who sees the unborn wilting when they die during an abortion?
Most Americans understand social justice.
Abortion is not healthcare.
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AJM
November 16, 2009 7:03 PM in reply to SocialJusticeForAll
Hitler was anti-abortion.
Calling a single cell a person does not make it one.
You are simply demanding that we treat a fertilized human egg not on the basis of what it is but on the basis of what it has the potential to become. This leads to morally absurd results. If you don't believe me, lie down and I will bury you. You are potentially dead. Your idolatry of a fertilized human egg leads to similarly absurd results. Not to mentioned the tragic creation of unwanted children.
The deaths of millions of women and infants can be traced directly to the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception and willingness to put their current doctrine over the wellbeing of born persons.
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SocialJusticeForAll
November 17, 2009 10:14 AM in reply to AJM
Hitler dehumanized groups of cells that did not conform to the Nazi agenda—a revealing pattern. It is time to stop the hate speech toward the Catholic Church. 50 million innocent Americans dead since Roe—seven times more than in the Holocaust—can not be justified.
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AJM
November 17, 2009 10:44 AM in reply to SocialJusticeForAll
Those abortions were justified -- they saved the lives of women and prevented the creation of unwanted children and cost the lives of no one.
Killing some living human cells that could become a person is not the same as killing a person. Think about cloning. We now know essentially that any human cell with a full complement of DNA could be made into a person. When in your estimation is killing such a cell okay -- like clipping hangnail with living cells -- and when is it not? Why?
Jews and other individuals that Hitler did not like were quite obviously full-fledged human beings and for you to compare their destruction to a blastocyte is disgusting. It is as though you were arguing that the basic reason for recognizing Jews and Gypsies as people is because they share human DNA not because you recognize that they are people.
Describing the actual effects of Catholic policies is not hate speech. Do you deny that the Catholic church has opposed the distribution of contraception and that women have died in childbirth as a highly forseeable result?
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SocialJusticeForAll
November 17, 2009 4:12 PM in reply to AJM
I beg to differ nothing justifies the killing of innocent human life.
Cloning is off the topic that abortion is not healthcare.
Look at videos and pictures of children living in the womb and their aborted counterparts before saying they are not also people like those killed in the Holocaust.
Conception is a second point that is off the topic that abortion is not healthcare.
Your statements toward the Catholic Church reflect an ignorance, probably innocent, of the moral gravity of abortion--the right to life itself is the foundation upon which all other human rights are based.
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kenga
November 20, 2009 3:33 PM in reply to SocialJusticeForAll
I'm afraid that you can't be a citizen of the United States - aka an "American", until you have been born.
The rules are very specific on where you must have been born, or whom you must have been born to.
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kenga
November 16, 2009 1:05 PM
Who saw abused children when child-labor laws were needed; slaves when they were viewed as chattel; Jewish people when they were viewed as “lesser people” and subject to the Holocaust?
"Liberals".
Who, on average, tend to be pro-choice and opt to not treat women as chattel or as "lesser people", and also tend to have a more nuanced view of the issue.
I think that both sides are missing an opportunity to reduce the number of abortions in this country, by neglecting to see to it that contraception is readily available and fully covered.
Frequent objections from members of the "pro-life" camp regarding contraception makes me believe there is little truth to claims that they really care about the un-born.
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Riesz Fischer
November 16, 2009 1:12 PM in reply to kenga
They're not "pro-life" at all, and they don't care at all about reducing the number of abortions. Almost every one of the anti-abortion crowd are pro-death penalty and pro-war.
And they're not "neglecting to see to it that contraception is readily available and fully covered", they are actively anti-contraception. That's the next thing they'll go after if they succeed in stopping abortion.
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kenga
November 20, 2009 3:42 PM in reply to Riesz Fischer
You won't get any argument from me on that, at least for the vast majority - I'm looking at it from a "sort the wheat from the chaff" perspective. Or "put your money where your mouth is."
Once done, we can set about telling the chaff to stop lying and go fuck itself, sideways.
As a single straight guy - I will stand in defense of Griswold v. Connecticut.
Self-interest is just one of my reasons for supporting that decision and that right.
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