You know, when I’ve gotten fed up with hard-core pro-life rhetoric, I’ve been known to say, “That’s right – don’t kill babies; kill women instead.” (If it will soften things at all, please keep in mind that I was in college during the days of Operation Rescue when the rhetoric was particularly nasty.) I try to tell myself I was exaggerating for effect, but then I read something like this and wonder if I was closer to the truth about what some people think than I’d like to be.
Hang it, it is my opinion that abortion is always, always morally wrong, and that it does result in the death of a human being! It is also my opinion that sometimes the decision to have an abortion is sometimes the least morally wrong option available, and for that reason it must remain as safe, legal, and rare as we can get it. To me, this case is a prime example of abortion being the least bad alternative in a situation where no good one exists. I’m glad the mother and child both survived. I think I also pray that the child never learns the circumstances of her conception and birth. I suspect she’s up for a harder time of things than most.
You still remain the symbol of the consummate schmuck that makes me glad I left Milwaukee for a saner place that for a brief window in time, made same sex marriage legal(Corvallis, Oregon).
I’m not that up on Florida statutes, but wouldn’t Bush have been accessory to murder after the fact if he’d kept her from getting the abortion and she’d died?
It turned out o.k.?!?
A woman with the mind of a child was raped, then forced to give birth to a baby at extreme risk to both herself and the potential child, just so that Jebby could score political points, and you think everything turned out o.k.?
This is the closest I’ve ever come to resigning as a moderator, just so that I could tell you what I really think of your short-sighted and self-serving post. :mad:
Well, bad choice of words.
You know, I’m making comments about this situation after the fact. The mother lived, the baby lived. Therefore, I do believe it was the best possible outcome for a truely bad situation. If this story were current, and she were still pregnant, I may (or may not) have a different stance.
Why are we getting our bowels in an uproar over old news?
That has to be one of the most ignorant, short-sighted things I ever heard. Do you think Jeb Bush has some crystal ball that told him the mother would live? Wrong decisions are still wrong even when random chance prevents them from becoming tragedies. Or in this case, a bigger tragedy.
I don’t care what they buy. I don’t have to justify my beliefs of political stances.
What I do want to know is if I’m the only person who’s not riled up over him.
So? I wasn’t answering on behalf of all women, I was giving my opinion, as a woman.
Besides which, especially if your assumption is right (although you’ve provided no evidence to support it) that only makes it even more frightening, in my opinion, as a woman.
