[politics] why I support Roe v. Wade

[juldea]

This hits me hard.


When you're done with that and are feeling really weighed down with serious thoughts, try this instead:

Bush was asked how he felt about Roe Vs. Wade.
He smirked and said "I don't care how the poor black people choose to get out of New Orleans."

Comments

[etherfinker.livejournal.com]

I can't say I'm the most informed bleeding-heart liberal, and I am definitely opposed to neo-cons much more on principle than with regard to the specifics of platforms or sponsored legislation. So I wonder if any "family valued" commenters out there in the inter-web who might read this could tell me - while conservative talking heads, self-proclaimed "pro-lifers", in state or federal office or otherwise, nearly bubble over with excitement at the thought of getting Roe v. Wade overturned by some new Supreme Court ruling... are they giving any thought ahead of time to what kinds of assistance that state and local governments will need to deal with the resultant post-Roe-v-Wade children who would otherwise have been aborted as fetuses? The resultant increase in children, most often, of young, poor, single mothers, living in poor communities, children who would be more prone than any others to fall through the system's already gaping cracks, children who would more often than not turn into burdens of the state as children in foster care, addicts, or criminals? What would "pro-lifers" do for those lives then, once they survived the womb and got handed the short end of the stick? Would they just be another problem that "the community" and its "faith-based organizations" are supposed to burden themselves with?

re: What would "pro-lifers" do for those lives then

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Electric Chair, Lethal Injection, or a good old-fashioned lynching.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

In the reading I was doing that led to the above-linked article, I saw an interesting comment that most "right to life"rs are actually "right to birth"ers - they'll help you get born, but after that, you're on your own as far as living goes.

[etherfinker.livejournal.com]

::nods sagely:: Yup. There certainly aren't many people worried about changing that perception. Then again, the people who support them either don't give a shit or can't see the forest for the trees - well, maybe they just refuse to see the trees to begin with... And when it comes to the people who don't support neo-conservatism - well, they're just traitorous pinko liberals who are conspiring with the terrorists, so who cares about what they think?

[etherfinker.livejournal.com]

::pauses for contemplation::

... Bleeding-hearts and neo-cons spend an awful lot of time talking right past each other, don't we?

Wish I felt like these selfish, manipulative, imperious former-used-car-salesman bastards deserved some kind of compromise from us, 'cause that would make the resolution of our differences a lot easier.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Three words: divide and conquer.