They know it won't go anywhere and they don't care about the waste of time and money.

that think They are the deciders for women.

They are unfit to serve.

Because you have to realize that women in their districts vote for them also, not just men! And due to gerrymandering, most if not all are in safe districts where a challenger, especially a Democrat wouldn't have a chance!

I'm so sick of this crap.

Jeeze this country has gone to shit.

Let's do the obvious thing.

about.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2430104/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

raised--full custody--and 100% supported by the father.

Oh, I'm a dreamer, aren't I?

Are they totally incapable of learning? Why yes, it does appear that way. I really hate those a*holes.

But I'm actually not terribly against the idea of abortions being illegal after 20 weeks except in the case of a danger to the life of the mother. 20 weeks is, what ... around 5 months? Isn't that plenty enough time to 'choose'? Haven't their been cases of babies being born alive after around 5 months?

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm not quite sure I 'get' what the outrage is about here? SOME kind of cut-off point seems fairly reasonable to me, and I can't personally 'morally' say that I think abortion is fine if there's any reasonable chance that the fetus is viable unless there's extenuating circumstances like danger to the life of the mother. And 5 months seems like a 'fair' cut-off point in light of that.

I mean, I don't 'like' that it's 20 Pub's making the decision, but the decision doesn't seem 'that bad' to me ... unless I'm missing something here?

1. It is not uncommon for a woman to not know she is pregnant until after 3 or 4 missed periods which puts you at 12-16 weeks. If you live in a area with no provider and have to scrape up money, time off and child care you are now getting awfully close to the 20 week cut off. Which is the whole point. If they can make this rule and then enact all the other delaying tactics....waiting periods, extra ultrasounds (which cost money) making sure there re no clinics for hundreds of miles....then women will get to 20 weeks and be stuck.

2. Who gets to decide what is "enough" risk to the life of the mother. In Ireland, the risk wasn't enough until the mother was beyond saving. In El Salvador, the risk wasn't enough until they could pretend a baby with no brain development was "viable". Maybe a woman won't die from the pregnancy, maybe she'll only go into kidney failure and have to be on dialysis for the remainder of her life. I don't know about you but I think the person facing that should make the decision with her medical providers.

3. Viable is different for every pregnancy. Check out the actual statistics on survival rates per gestational age and then look at the morbidity of these extremely premature infants. It's not a pretty picture. There are conditions that can't be diagnosed before 20 weeks that are incompatible with life but don't pose a risk to the physical health of the mother. Who are you or anyone else to tell a woman she has to continue a doomed pregnancy. Or tell a family they have to birth and raise a severely disabled child when they know they haven't got the ability to do so. Those kids don't fare well in the foster care system at all.

Pregnancy Related Deaths


In the United States—

Of the 5,001 deaths within a year of pregnancy termination that occurred between 2006 and 2008 and were reported to CDC, 1,953 were found to be pregnancy-related.

The pregnancy-related mortality ratio was 15.2 deaths per 100,000 live births for the period 2006–2008.

Considerable racial disparities in pregnancy-related mortality exist. During the 2006–2008 period, the pregnancy-related mortality ratios were—

11.3 deaths per 100,000 live births for white women.
34.8 deaths per 100,000 live births for black women.
14.5 deaths per 100,000 live births for women of other races.

http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MaternalInfantHealth/PMSS.html

Fetal Mortality and Infant Mortality Rates


In 2005, a total of 25,894 fetal deaths of 20 weeks of gestation or more were reported in the United States, nearly as many as infant deaths (28,384).

Fetal deaths were nearly evenly divided into those at 20–27 weeks of gestation and those at 28 weeks of gestation or more.

In 2005, the U.S. fetal mortality rate was 6.22 fetal deaths of 20 weeks of gestation or more per 1,000 live births and fetal deaths.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db16.htm

It's saying if you willingly had sex, you should be forced to give birth.

not the misnamed 'right to life'.

It is painfully obvious that they care NOTHING for the woman's right to life, nor quality of either her life or of the children they would love to force us to bear.

What is really the issue is their desire to have complete power over all women, force us to submit to their (sadistic) religions, and make us passive producers of more cannon fodder for their wars, and more slave labor for the ultra rich.

WOMEN...WAKE UP! Please do NOT vote for these monsters, EVER.


I really, really, really HATE these lousy rotten fundy fanatics.

May they and their causes taste nothing but the ashes of defeat!