Anti-Abortionists / Anti-Choicers like Stupak are the biggest promoters of abortion in America

Rep. Bart Stupak might as well had stood on top of the Capitol's dome screaming, "I LOVE ABORTIONS!", because of where he and all the other anti-choicers have taken America. His amendment won't stop abortion in this country. As a matter of fact, I think that it'll do a lot to promote it and make the ordeal that much more difficult and potentially fatal for any woman who might need such a medical procedure.

The sheer impractical philosophy and anti-democratic implication behind that amendment is appalling. The same goes for the anti-abortion movement and their legislative hangers-on as a whole.

I really think that these people are under some awful delusion that some women crave abortions like other women crave breast implants and liposuctions. It's quite obvious that they live in some weird world where simple common sense and consideration are like some kind of alien concepts from another planet.

But worse yet, I'm quite convinced that these people are the primary reason why the situation regarding abortion is as appalling as they always scream it to be from the tops of their lungs.

The problem that these people have caused is two-fold:

1. They've created their own cottage industry of outrage and made it self-perpetuating.

2. They always stand in the way of reducing the rate of abortions by other means.

Look, I'm a guy and perhaps it's not my place to judge. You can tell me if I'm right or wrong to throw my male perspective out there, for sure. But when I think about it, a few considerations of simple common sense really lays out the matter.

First, women who want children would rather have an uncomplicated pregnancy and childbirth, culminating in happy and healthy kids, that are raised and educated in a way so they grow up to be upstanding and productive adults and so on.

And second, women who don't want kids would rather not be put into a situation so that they'd to have to choose whether or not they want to abort a fetus or not.

I hope that I not oversimplifying this, but I think that it comes down to those two basics.

But, to accept these concepts, one would have to realize a few things:

1. Women have the right to control their own bodies as they see fit.

2. We should make it a priority to have a society that raises and educates children to the best of our ability.

3. That those who want children can have them and those who don't, not.

4. The process by which we seek to or not have children should be based on the precepts of a modern democratic society, medical and scientific advances, education and freedom and not some Bronze Age, misogynistic hocus-pocus with the phrase, "God's will', slathered all over it.

If Rep Stupak applied those principles and a little common sense, can you imagine the kind of amendment he actually would had submitted in order to reduce abortion in this county? I can.

It would have mandated comprehensive prenatal and neonatal care for every woman and child. It would have promoted easy access to contraception and funding to make that more available and effective.

The amendenment would have promoted more economic and educational assistance to parents. It's would have funded better medical technology to promote healthy preganancies and prevent the need for intervention.

I'm sure that there is more that could be added, but this is just a start.

It would have been a landmark piece of legislation to promote healthy children and confirmed the constitutional and moral rights that women have over their own bodies. It would assume that they are human beings worthy enough to be trusted to make the best decisions for themselves and, if they wont to have them, their own families.

But, where we are today, it's quite clear that the warped idealism of Bart Stupak and his anti-choice crowd do not have the best interests of women, children, families or America in mind.

They're only thinking about ways to perpetuate their pious attention whoring, women and children hating cottage industry, that puts women at the risk of their lives and funds a constant parade of tragedy and heartbreak.

That's just this man's opinion. Thanks for allowing me to give it.

amend the amendment so it mandates each of its legislative supporters to take financial and psychological responsibility for every unwanted pregnancy and its incubator-mother, from conception to college graduation. Thank you MrScorpio. You're correct.

They need abortion in order to stay in business.

It's kinda sick, actually.

Too bad you are not in Congress ~~ your positions on these issues is outstanding!

:patriot:

The females in your life are truly blessed IMO to have someone as insightful as you are about women, children and life.