Do you think there's a mental defect present that procludes them from distinguishing between the two? I know many people who are Pro choice and I can't think of one that is, as some right wing nuts like to label, pro abortion, What do you think?
2006-09-15 07:26:44 · 34 answers · asked by Dr.Feelgood 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2006-09-15 07:39:10 · update #1
It has nothing to do with their respect to the baby’s life (may very well have something to do with mental illness though). If they had any respect for a child’s life they will be working hard to find a cure for deadly childhood diseases such as Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma. They oppose stem cell research and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer which currently hold the most promise in finding a cure for cancer. They hold a stem cell or an embryo in higher esteem than a Human child’s life.
We are the most developed country in the world….Yet, how many children die untimely deaths because their parent’s couldn’t afford them expensive medical treatment? Neocons don’t support health care assistance. How many of these anti-abortion Neocons, do you think support children’s hospital funds? The Funds which help save thousand’s of babies lives. Babies whose parents can’t afford them thousands of dollars worth of chemo therapy. Yet they preach to us about anti-abortion. They think it is more moral to stand in front of abortion clinics and protest or kill doctors who perform abortions, rather than help a single Mother raise a child. …there is NO liberal I know who is Pro abortion. Life is precious, children are precious. We have no right to take life in the name war. Instead of passing the abortion issue off as a political platform, Neocons should become part of the solution by advocating for accurate sex education, effective birth control, improving women’s/children’s health care and finding foster homes for children. What confuses me is that Neocons fight so hard to save embryos and fetuses, yet they see no value in a human’s life after a Mother gives birth to the baby. And they will fight to the end to take away a woman’s right to chose. Making a private decision a political crutch. Shameful indeed.
2006-09-15 11:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is the actual difference in functional reality? It becomes a battle of syllables and semantics, not over ones view on the total issue.
Pro-Choice & Pro-Life camps may not represent all of sides.
Where the two sides really differ is on what the definition of "life" is; sprititual vs. scientific.
What they have in common is that neither side REALLY knows when life begins. Many people on the Pro-Choice side, (not the fringe kooks & whacko's) prefer to advocate caution, especially with the advance of medical measures to keep a fetus alive. They advocate personal responsibility when dealing with a matter that could involve a third party as the end result.
Leave Rape, incest & life of the mother out of the discussion, ad most (News Week 1996, 93.7%) abortions are for purposes of preference. How does changing the label attached to that statistiic change anything?
Defining one's self as Pro-Choice as opposed to Pro-Abortion is nothing more than an excersize in feel-good language, to blamelessly distance one from the issue, and not take a stand on a very important topic.
2006-09-15 07:47:57 · answer #2 · answered by electricpole 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The difference is respecting someone Else's rights verses supporting that right .
I believe from the moment of conception a new life is brought into the world and needs its mother for around 9 months and to do anything to harm this life is wrong .
I do not believe public money should pay for anything but the care of the mother to be and never to end the life inside .
I believe making it a religious issue has hurt our progression towards the acceptance of this as a complete and seperate entity from the mother that needs her support for 9 months .
LETS try to perfect fetal transplants from women to women and see if this works .THEN we can have all the children born and none have to be killed .Imagine the number of childen that have never been because of abortion .the possibility of one of them discovering a cure for cancer far out wieghts all the possible crime people associate with poor mothers and there children .Some of the poorest people have gone on to achieve greatness in this world and changed it for the better in some ways for billions of people .with all good things come's some bad .LIEk the two beverly hills brothers who killed there parents to get the money .Mendez or something .OH well we need to respect all live at all stages and pre birthcare is as important as elderly care .We certinly do not want to put Mrs. Johnson down when she breaks her hip just to save on some medical exspenses do we .that six months to a year old people live sure costs alot and many never recover and need 24 hour a day care .BUT we can milk the insurance and family for money to care for them but who can we charge to protect the un born who need care .I am sorry that so many people can not see this the way i do .Protecting the person from conception is only rational when you consider that gene combinations are formed at this point that do not change concerning everything that makes a person an individual.Hair color eyes finger prints there own dna combinations to be passed on to the next generation .Have we infact limited our diversity by ending so many lives before birth but after conception .I leave it up to the individual who has this knowledge in there hands and not the scare tacticts and government controls as some nations do .I want people to make informed decisions and i feel that with the proper knowledge will choose life .
2006-09-15 08:04:36 · answer #3 · answered by playtoofast 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that some people are so wrapped up in there own opinion that to them if you do not feel the same way then your opinion does not count.
If you stop to think about it we are all that way to a point, I am personally a pro choicer, and I would never under normal circumstances have an abortion. (life or death would be different) but I will defend to the end a woman's right to choose. but think about how you feel about their opinion!!! Kind of the same. The one opinion I hate is the opinion of a bigot, I think there thoughts and opinions on the matter does not count because they are so crazy. Does that make me any different than the people you are talking about, I think not I think my opinions are right and there's are wrong
Just a thought from your friendly pro-choicer
2006-09-15 08:00:33 · answer #4 · answered by Joy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am anti-abortion, it is a piss poor means of birth control. However I do not think that the government should legislate on any moral questions, and abortion is a moral issue. I do not think that it is my place to judge anybody that gets an abortion for I have not walked in their shoes. I think that education in the churches and the schools is the best way to go about it. In the schools it is important to show both sides of the question.
2006-09-15 07:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
The party doesnt like to get into details, or think of the bigger picture or cant accept that law supercedes emotion.
the issue at hand is privacy, and the case of Griswold vs. Conneticut. Neocons don't care about privacy rights, the support a president who wants to take those away.
the issue of abortion goes beyond abortion but whether the government can control and has say in when a person should or if they should have children.
as to the lable of pro this or that....i am for the choice and rule of law. it is how you frame it in the national debate.
what has always bothered me is the so called culture of life, isn't against war, or death penalty.
it doestn't support stem cell research in order to help the living, and its too hyporcritical to close down the fertility clinics that produce the stem cells in the first place.
its a culture of convience and hyprocarcy.
but that is just my opinion.
2006-09-15 07:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Dr DD
They are "Nomenclaturely Disabled".
They can not find a reason to bash or fight against an individuals rights so they bend it into something they can fight.
Just as they have done with the war in Iraq. (They had no WMDs and as Chaney stated himself on "Meet the Press""we would have gone in anyway") They can not find a reason to support a preemptive strike so they bend it into the war on terror (even though they know Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism).
How many times has Bush-Co used "re-wording" to establish support for an issue?????
2006-09-15 07:50:21 · answer #7 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Conservatives use the term "Pro Abortion" for the same reason Liberals use "Anti-choice" - to make a political point. If it's used as part of a larger rational argument, it's one thing. If it's used as an epithet (like "mental defect"), it's another.
By the way, why do Liberals constantly use denigration as a tactic?
2006-09-15 07:40:31 · answer #8 · answered by barb31416 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes. It's a mental defect that prevents them from being able to let go of a great emotional rallying point.
The thing about the abortion debate is that the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated issues. Pro-life people say "abortion is bad, nobody should have one". Pro-abortion (if anyone really held such a position) says "abortion is good, and everyone should have one".
Pro-choice advocates say "The government not should be making personal decisions that like". It's not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the decisions. Which is why the true opposite to pro-choice is anti-choice. Lack of personal decision, with only the government having any authority to make decisions.
Here is a link for an article by makes the same crucial distinction between being pro-choice and pro-abortion. They are not the same thing.
2006-09-15 07:31:27 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 8⤊ 7⤋
I would have to say that in my opinion the neocons that are not for women's rights are commie's and probably were saved from a trash can themselves. Premature babies sometimes don't fully develop metal capabilities when they don't get enough oxygen to the brain, hence a neonuz is born !
2006-09-15 09:26:31 · answer #10 · answered by LiberalsUnited 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋