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12/09/09
Dr. P seemed very nice; I don't think I could have had that sort of patience with a grown-ass pregnant woman who was asking what a fetus/embryo was (but of course, im seeing this from the perspective where i know she is trying to ensnare him into using the "b" word). he could be my abortionist any day.
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He seems really nice, though I'll admit I wince every time I watch one of these and realize the doctor's in his 60s. I'm officially worried about there being no young doctors who will provide abortions.
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[www.guidestar.org]
Granted, the CEO of the national version makes $385K a year, COO makes about $249K, and CFO makes about $277K, but that's pretty much standard operating procedure for an org the size of PP.
Also struck me as odd: Planned Parenthood nonprofits are incorporated as dozens of different organizations. Anyone know why? I'm assuming the name is trademarked, so they can't be operating independently of one another.
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Rage. Rage, rage, rage....despair.
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My point is....I hate these people. I hate them when they terrorize patients (I might be coming for a referral, I might need an abortion, I might need B.C., I might have just been raped. Don't care--FUCK OFF, AND GET YOUR BLOODY FETUS OUT OF MY FACE, ASSHOLE), I hate their power in Congress (be they bishops or...hell, it's mainly religious groups trying to force dogma into law, isn't it), I hate the likes of Scott Roeder, I hate when people shrug it off.
I hate that they portray this as a "lucrative" job.
I think, I must be insane. Maybe I'm a fool--there must be a reason no one else but women written off as "feminazis" or "special interest groups" (at BEST) feels disturbed when doctors providing medical services (including vital services OTHER than abortion....a relative used the term "abortion industry" with me the other day and I gave a speech bordering on a rant explaining why that term is bullshit) and BIRTH CONTROL, for God's sake, go to work every day worried that they'll be blown up in their offices, or targeted at home.
They talk about these doctors as fat-cat profiteers of death....then they vote for Bush, and, by default, all the friends who will get sweetheart contracts, every company who benefits when idiot voters and indifferent, arrogant government leaders treat war as folly.
All that religion goes out the window when it comes time to fund social services for all those unwanted kids...
It is a fucking crime.
I am terrified of these people because their insanity is legitimized....everywhere. They've already won of the war of words--"pro-life" versus "pro-abortion." Jesus.
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You're a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Lila Rose.
The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."
You're a rotter, Ms Malkin.
You're the queen of sinful sots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Ms Malkin.
Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
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It's time again, Rose
To tell the truth from the lies
Lila Rose
It's time again, Rose
About a thousand falsehoods...why?
So here is my counter-song
Not fancy or fine
Lila Rose,
Get the facts for next time
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If there were a free-market incentive for abortion, you'd be able to get one at Starbucks, using a coupon.
The only thing lucrative about abortion is the staggering medical malpractice insurance extorted from doctors in order to finance shitty investments in speculative financial products of commoditized debt.
And they want to shoot doctors?
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Also do you have any links or anything to google about the medical malpractice issued to ob/gyns? I don't even think about malpractice when I go to the doctor and it sickens me that people extort those we need most.
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Mostly, I'm bitter because now that we've bailed out the insurance companies and banks, they have the audacity to go back to business as usual and are actually profiting, while so many smaller businesses are failing because the banks won't lend, and healthcare's going up. The insurance companies are certainly not all that's to be blamed for US healthcare woes, but they will have to give more value to the consumer under reform, and they don't like that at all.
Here's a quick primer that references figures from a GAO (General Accounting Office) report: [www.policyalmanac.org]
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And up until, like, the 1940's abortion wasn't a controversy. At all.
In fact, a lot of religious grouops advocated legalizing abortion.
Women passed tips to each other for how to do them - and they did not consider themselves to be pregnant until the quickening occurred. Basically, they had a missed period and wanted to fix that.
Pretty much, we're no more backwards than we were when women didn't even have the right to vote. Progress!
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#tips
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Oh wait, what's that you say? People are already aware of Fox News and Sarah Palin's Facebook profile and the countless affairs of GOP family values politicians? And no one gives a damn? I guess we'll just continue to let them target Planned Parenthood and ACORN, which clearly have more power in the world.
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And: pro-choice wins by a landslide!
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Here: [mypage.direct.ca]
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Also it sounds like my mom wrote this. She told me how she used to protest abortion clinics and even worked to get one shut down in a southern state.
When I was 17 or 18 and took the morning after pill my parents found out by going through my car and found the receipt, they then had the whole family sit down and read me bible verses about how abortion is wrong. Never mind that I most likely could not have been pregnant, but was young, paranoid and sexually inexperienced. My mother even things some forms of birth control is abortion in and of itself.
wow it feel so much better to get that out there.
How I ended up pro-choice, I don't know.
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Allergic reaction to crazy talk, it happens to a lot of intelligent people.
(I don't mean to say that your parents aren't intelligent)
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Also this classic: I knit you together in your mother's womb (Psalm 139.13)
While I respect the bible and even after all the craziness my parents spouted, I don't think that the bible was intended to bring people down or be vindictive !
12/09/09
I am also a blackhearted woman for drinking and dancing, according the the conservatives yelling on the street corner.
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One source comments that because some Bible translations (KJV, RSV) use the phrase "woman with child" that God considers a fetus to be a human child. 3 But other translations render the phrase simply as "pregnant woman" and make no direct reference to the fetus.
This verse describes a situation in which a man, who is fighting another man, accidentally hits a pregnant woman, and causes a termination of her pregnancy. The following verse, 23, explains that if the woman died, the guilty man would be executed by the state. The accidental killing of a woman under these circumstances was considered a capital offense, because she was a human person.
Verse 22 is confusing. The key Hebrew word "yatsa" literally means to "lose her offspring." 4 This has been translated in different Bible versions as:
* A miscarriage: This would imply that the fetus died immediately as a direct result of the accident. Assuming no further harm happens (e.g. that the woman does not die), the man responsible would have to pay at a fine. The amount would be set by her husband and approved by the judges. This would imply that the death of the fetus was not considered to be the death of a human person. If it were, then the man responsible would be tried for murder and executed. However, because the fetus had possible future economic worth to the father, he would have to be reimbursed for his loss.
* premature birth: This implies that the fetus is born earlier than full term. Assuming no further harm happens (e.g. that neither the woman nor the baby dies) then the man would pay a fine. One possible interpretation of this passage would be that if the premature baby died, then the man responsible had killed a human person, and would be tried for murder. The verse is ambiguous at this point.
The New International Version of the Bible uses the phrase: "gives birth prematurely." and offers "miscarriage" as an alternative translation in a footnote. These two options result in totally opposite interpretations: one supporting the pro-choice faction; the other supporting the pro-life movement.
Some liberal theologians reject this interpretation. 5 They point out that this passage appears to have been derived from two earlier Pagan laws, whose intent is quite clear:
* Code of Hammurabi (209, 210) which reads: "If a seignior struck a[nother] seignior's daughter and has caused her to have a miscarriage [literally, caused her to drop that of her womb], he shall pay ten shekels of silver for her fetus. If that woman had died, they shall put his daughter to death."
* Hittite Laws, (1.17): "If anyone causes a free woman to miscarry [literally, drives out the embryo]-if (it is) the 10th month, he shall give 10 shekels of silver, if (it is) the 5th month, he shall give 5 shekels of silver..." The phrase "drives out the embryo" appears to relate to a miscarriage rather than to a premature birth.
Author Brian McKinley, a born-again Christian, sums the passage up with: "Thus we can see that if the baby is lost, it does not require a death sentence -- it is not considered murder. But if the woman is lost, it is considered murder and is punished by death." 4
From [www.religioustolerance.org]
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I swear I'm not making this shit up.
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The gist is: if a woman is suspected of being unfaithful to her husband, and of carrying another man's child, her priest:
"shall set the woman before the Lord, dishevel the woman's hair, and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. In his own hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse."
The priest gives her a medicine intended to induce miscarriage (the bitter water "makes your uterus drop, your womb discharge") — if she has been unfaithful. (It supposedly won't harm a marital pregnancy.)
Ancient cultures had a strong familiarity with the kinds of herbal medicines that can be used to induce a miscarriage. One abortifacient plant, silphium, was even made extinct, probably through overuse, by the time the Roman empire fell.
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Which is fine by me!
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They really think that they're saving lives rather than destroying them.
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What happens to us "sinners" is none of their business. In the end, it's completely up to God (if you believe in that of course)
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I say, if God's so attached to all of the preggers staying preggers, maybe he should make more durable fetuses.
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