To hear Maine Republicans tell it, all would be right with the world if they could just pass a bill in the next legislative session to defund Planned Parenthood. This simple act would result in the federal budget being balanced, the Islamic State being defeated, Russian President Vladimir Putin making obsequious concessions to the United States and the Boston Red Sox signing a legitimate ace pitcher.
Oh, and the price of beer would go way down.
Curse you, abortionists, for denying those of us who are not pregnant and will probably never become pregnant a return to the simple pleasures of peace, prosperity and dollar drafts.
On the other hand, those living in the Roe v. Wade world of legal access to reproductive health care are able to avoid such unwanted side effects of pregnancy as diaper changing, buying a new pair of pricey sneakers every 20 minutes and putting a lock on the beer refrigerator to keep out unruly teenagers.
It may be a wash.
Nevertheless, the GOP remains adamant that all government money must be taken away from Planned Parenthood because the organization provides fetal tissue to medical research facilities for use in curing a variety of illnesses. As Republican state representatives Richard Pickett of East Dixfield, Mary Anne Kinney of Knox and Beth Turner of Burlington put it in a Sept. 27 op-ed in the Lewiston Sun Journal, “Any human being of good character and clear conscience should realize that selling baby organs and limbs for money is wrong.”
Would trading them for food be OK?
Pickett, Kinney and Turner go on to say they want to cut public money for Planned Parenthood in order to “put a stop to the unlawful use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortion that might result in the harvesting and selling of baby body parts.”
Note the word “unlawful.” If these lawmakers have evidence that Planned Parenthood is using tax money to fund abortions, they should contact the attorney general without delay. If not, their proposal seems pointless, since cutting off funding for something that isn’t being funded might not be the most productive use of the legislative process.
There’s also that word “might.” In Maine, Planned Parenthood says it doesn’t sell fetal tissue and has no plans to do so. It still “might” do so, just as I “might” write a column extolling the virtues of Gov. Paul LePage’s management style. “Might” is poor justification for passing a law.
Fortunately, not all members of the GOP are taking such an extreme approach – at least not consistently. Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin of the state’s 2nd Congressional District told Maine Public Radio last month that a blanket ban on federal money for the organization was poor policy. “We should fund the other parts of Planned Parenthood that allows other services for women to go on,” Poliquin said.
Shortly thereafter, he voted to defund all of them.
In no way am I attempting to portray Poliquin as a weaseling undersized tool. The tool part is mere speculation. Without DNA testing or something, there’s no way to know for sure. But there’s considerable evidence of weaseling. And irrefutable proof he’s undersized.
All this controversy over Planned Parenthood is only marginally about the heavily edited videos that suggest it’s engaged in perfectly legal activities, albeit with uncaring attitudes that wouldn’t have been out of place in the executive suites of Volkswagen. The real agenda here is the conservative crusade to ban abortion. Putting Planned Parenthood on the defensive is just the latest in a series of guerrilla actions designed to return women’s health care to the glorious back alleys of the 1950s.
In the most recent legislative session, the GOP, alleged champions of cutting red tape, attempted to impose new – and redundant – licensing procedures on clinics that offer abortion services. They also tried to institute additional restrictions on when teenagers could get abortions. The year before, Republicans attempted to pass bills that essentially forced doctors to try to talk women out of having abortions and to allow wrongful-death lawsuits for killing a fetus.
In spite of all this, Republicans claim they’re not trying to make abortion illegal. As with defunding Planned Parenthood, they’re hoping to make it impossible.
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What is wrong with our society today? Planned Parenting just disgusts me!
Just Saying!:
Part of what’s wrong with our society, is that more people do NOT plan their parenthood.
The movie, “Idiocracy” is fast becoming a reality and with no valid reason. If the people I see with multiple children still in diapers, can afford all the tattoos, then they could easily have afforded birth control.
Carly Fiorina grossly misrepresented what was on the video of a so-called
abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility. Don’t believe her, what she talked about was all “FAKED”. But that doesn’t keep her from continuing to LIE about it. Stop listening to those lies. Carly Fiorina is what’s disgusting, pretending SHE saw the video, pretending that the video depicted an aborted fetus. Respected news sources report that the footage of the fetus was the result of a miscarriage and not at all connected to Planned Parenthood.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/09/carly_fiorina_lied_about_planned_parenthood_video_gop_debate_fact_checking.html
So, “JustSayin” do you or any other Planned Parenthood haters have any idea where poor women would go to get vital health services (including cancer screenings) if Planned Parenthood ceased to exist? Try walking in our shoes for awhile – then see what you think of Planned Parenthood.
Why is the government funding planed parenthood when everyone has health insurance and can pay for service themselves
If Planned Parenthood offered only vital health services, then there would be no problem with it. Abortion is not healthcare. It is a terrible act performed in the name of “convenience.” Abortion should never be legal in a so-called civilized society.
A mere 3% of Planned Parenthood’s services are for abortion. It is a woman’s private decision whether it’s because the health of the mother would be in danger, because of a fetus with birth defects, a pregnancy that is the result of incest or rape, or because the woman doesn’t want to have a child for many other reasons. There is NO Federal funding for abortion. Under Roe -v- Wade, abortion has been legal since 1973.
Abortion IS about healthcare. The lives of many women have been saved since this is no longer a “back alley” procedure that caused infections, hemorrhages and crippling injuries.
Abortion of a baby that could live if born at that point (viability) is murder, and everyone involved should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, as well as everyone ever involved in the barbaric “Partial-Birth Abortions”! Is stopping the tiny beating heart of a helpless, innocent baby healthcare? Anyone EXCEPT the abortive “mother” who caused the death of a fetus or baby at any point in a pregnancy could be tried for murder, but the “mother” gets a free pass to do it?
Marie – Planned Parenthood’s “mere 3%” of services snuffs out the lives of over 300,000 defenseless babies every year. One abortion per year is one too many. An abortion results in a dead baby, and sometimes a mother who is dead or wounded in body, and a mother who is always wounded in soul.
A human life has infinite value. There is no material worth which can be rationally compared to it. Saying that abortion should be legal so that people won’t do it illegally is the same cop-out argument that people use to try to justify legalizing drugs. Everybody is doing it, so why don’t we make it legal? The number of invaluable lives and souls destroyed just don’t seem to figure into the equation.
What we need more than anything is a change of culture. For 99% of the history of humanity, a child was considered to be a great gift and a blessing from God. Our current world has devalued a human life greatly, and now we have legalized abortion, which is, in effect, just an extreme measure of birth control. Until people realize that the God who created us is the actual owner of our bodies, the abortion mentality will be tough to change for the better.
There will always be circumstances in which an abortion is the best alternative.
As is often the case with these issues that seem to defy a solution, the answer lies in a path that the conservative right is also not willing to walk down; increase the availability for affordable contraceptive care for all.
Fewer impregnates equals fewer abortions.
“…partial-birth” is not a medical term. It’s a political one, and a highly confusing one at that, with both sides disagreeing even on how many procedures take place, at what point in pregnancy, and exactly which procedures the law actually bans.”
Note: “Some may find the content of the linked material disturbing.”
I do, but the fact that fetuses may not show some abnormalities until the 2nd trimester of pregnancy precludes early termination of the pregnancy.
“And contrary to the claims of some abortion opponents, most such abortions do not take place in the third trimester of pregnancy, or after fetal “viability.” Indeed, when some members of Congress tried to amend the bill to ban only those procedures that take place after viability, abortion opponents complained that would leave most of the procedures legal.
http://www.npr.org/2006/02/21/5168163/partial-birth-abortion-separating-fact-from-spin
From NARAL Pro-Choice America
“In all this Planned Parenthood defunding nonsense, there’s been one big misconception that’s floated up far too often: that Planned Parenthood receives federal funding for the abortion care it provides.
That’s not true, thanks to abortion-coverage bans—a little something known as the Hyde Amendment—which prohibit insurance coverage for abortion services in government health-care programs, including Medicaid.
The end result of Hyde is that low-income women, disproportionately women of color and women in public service—such as U.S. servicewomen, federal employees and Peace Corps volunteers—are hit especially hard by this partisan, anti-choice policy.[1]
The EACH Woman Act would change that. Click here to sign the petition to tell Congress to pass this important bill.
We’ve launched a campaign with more than a dozen of our coalition partners—including the Center for Reproductive Rights, CREDO, Daily Kos, NOW and Planned Parenthood—to urge Congress to back out of women’s personal health care decisions. We’re aiming to get 100,000 petition signatures by the end of this week, and we’re counting on NARAL members like you (or any concerned person) to get us there.
Right now, whether or not a woman can have an abortion when she needs it depends a lot on where she lives, where she works, how much she makes, and what kind of insurance she has. This isn’t fair, and it isn’t right.
Add your name to tell Congress to reverse this backwards policy.
The women serving our country overseas and staffing our government here at home shouldn’t be denied coverage of abortion because anti-choice lawmakers in Congress are obsessed with banning abortion wherever possible. And if you’re struggling to make ends meet, you should be able to count on your insurance to cover your medical expenses.
As of earlier this month, the Hyde Amendment has been around for 39 years—which is 39 years too long. Let’s make sure it doesn’t stick around to see another one.
Thank you for all you do for reproductive freedom.
Sasha Bruce
Senior Vice President, NARAL Pro-Choice America”
“Our current world has devalued a human life greatly….”
Agreed! But there are still many wars that take the lives of innocent people and Iraq and Syria are only recent examples. Gun violence in the U.S. is a great devaluation of human life.
As mass shootings continually show us, we don’t live in a civilized society. I find it ironic that the same people who are out there demonizing a woman’s choice to have a safe abortion are the same people who refuse to put any limits on gun ownership. If life is in the womb, it’s sacred…until it’s born. Then no food stamps, no Head Start, no access to affordable healthcare, no protection from nut jobs with guns. We have a word in the English language for these people, hypocrite. If you’re anti-abortion, you also better be out there advocating for universal healthcare and gun control.
I recommend going to YouTube and viewing a talk that Gianna Jessen gave to the legislature. Select the video without the gum-chewing man behind her in the picture (very distracting) who seems to be paying no attention and choose the video which includes the photos Gianna points out.
She is a positive, enlightening speaker with a rare point of view.
Someone dies at the end of almost every abortion.
@ Marie:
“October 6, 2015 • 10:09 am
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From NARAL Pro-Choice America
“In all this Planned Parenthood defunding nonsense, there’s been one big misconception that’s floated up far too often: that Planned Parenthood receives federal funding for the abortion care it provides.
That’s not true, thanks to abortion-coverage bans—a little something known as the Hyde Amendment—which prohibit insurance coverage for abortion services in government health-care programs, including Medicaid.”
I’m not sure which is more ridiculous, your comment or the fact that you made it. A dollar given to PP for any non-abortion purpose by the government (taxpayer dollars!) or anyone else FREES UP a dollar which they can spend for abortion. Simple as that. Obvious as the lie in the comment. Do not presume that you can spew abortion propaganda and not be called out for it.
Another of Marie’s gems “If you can kill innocent people in wars, then we can kill innocent babies in the womb!”
The Nazis never perpetrated a murder more barbaric than a Partial-Birth Abortion! All parties to one are no better than ghouls, and they had better HOPE there is no God!
@ Arnold P.
You don’t know what your talking about. You usually don’t, but this time, you went over the top.
My wife had a “partial birth abortion”.
We had tried for many years, to have another child. There were several miscarriages. The last time, we went all out to try and make the pregnancy go full term. We spent a lot of money ( not insurance money- this was before the ACA, insurance didn’t cover it) for specialists help. My wife took a daily dose of pills and shots.
We were, (at that time) devout Catholics. We attended church every week, we met with our priest for support.
We elected not to have amniocentesis tests done, as they can cause a miscarriage. We did not have early ultrasounds done, because they were not mandatory and we needed the money to cover the expenses that were.
At the beginning of the third trimester, some problems began, and an ultrasound was recommended.
What it showed, was devastating. The fetus was missing some vital organs, as well as several limbs, yet had too many fingers. The brain was severely malformed. The reason that it had not miscarried, was (in part) all our efforts to prevent that from happening, as well as that the placenta had formed over the opening to the cervix.
Had my wife attempted to go full term, there would have been a very good possibility of serious complications. The fetus would not have lived, or, if it did at all, it would have been a very brief life that knew only agonizing pain.
Yet, we still agonized over the decision to terminate. We prayed, we looked deep into ourselves and our faith, before we decided.
The doctor who performed the procedure had difficulty finding nurses to assist. One of those who refused, attended our church, and was openly hostile to us afterwards.
Afterwards, the doctor came to us, and assured us, that we had made the correct decision.
So Arnold, we are not monsters, we are not Nazis. We are people, who through no fault of our own, who had the finest of intentions, to create a child and raise it in a healthy, loving home, found ourselves having to make a horrible decision. Not once, have we ever thought we made the wrong choice.
Go wave your confederate flag and spout your nonsense talk, but don’t call decent people Nazi monsters.
“If you can kill innocent people in wars, then we can kill innocent babies in the womb!”
“The Nazis never perpetrated a murder more barbaric…”
The above quotes are strictly/solely the words of Arnold P. All exaggerated and hysterically inaccurate.
Blue & Red conversation …
B: You Conservatives are obsessed with fetuses. Once the baby’s born you don’t care what happens to it.
R: Actually, there are twice as many crisis pregnancy centers as abortion clinics. They are privately funded and provide housing, diapers, formula, car seats, even pediatric care.
B: [awkward silence … then] Misogynist!
R: ?!?
Actually, Arnold, the Nazis did perpetrate more barbaric acts because they built on the work of a great teacher. Both Hitler and Josef Mengele greatly admired Margaret Sanger, founder and patron saint of Planned Parenthood. Her legacy dwelled wherever the doctor conducted his experiments.
Read a description of how a Partial-Birth Abortion is performed, and then try to think of anything more barbaric you could do to a helpless, innocent baby. I will not describe it here out of utter disgust and disbelief that anyone could be so inhumane. There are other ways to terminate a pregnancy that are far less heinously heartless and brutal. I change not a word I’ve said about it or those involved in it.
Lucky for Dr. Stephen Hawking someone else made decisions re his birth.
Very sorry, snowman, to learn of the suffering you and your wife have endured.
Frostproof:
okay, go ahead, give us a list of crisis pregnancy centers in Maine, that offer care to anyone, regardless of income, insurance, religion or race and that are NOT planned parenthood. I would like to know, cause we looked, and we didn’t find any.
Arnold: you’re a fool. You have been tricked by those who oppose abortions. Use your brain, for just a second. Think through, how, if you need to perform an abortion. what you would do first?
When you’re dead, you’re dead. You rot and decay, it doesn’t matter if you’re a fetus, a baby or a grumpy curmudgeon, once you’re dead, your body is no long you, it’s no longer a human being, it’s just dead meat. Just as dead as a hamburger, or a rock.
Arnold P –
When you get pregnant and have to make a tough choice, I will support your right to choose. You will have that hard, hard decision to make, and it will be your choice, because it’s your body and you’re the one who has all the facts. Your body, your choice.
“The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. may have put it best in 1966, when he accepted Planned Parenthood’s prestigious Margaret Sanger Award and spoke eloquently of the “kinship” between the civil rights and family planning movements. Here is what he said, since it bears repeating:
‘There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. … She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions.’
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/02/was_planned_parenthoods_founder_racist/
@Arnold P.: Stephen Hawking was born in 1942. Penicillin wasn’t mass- produced until the mid 1940’s. Yet you imply that there was a means in the early 1940’s that could determine that Hawking would have ALS and that his parents would somehow consider that information prior to his birth.
Such misleading conjecture!
It’s not “your body” that gets destroyed, it’s a helpless, innocent baby’s. Not “Your Body, Your Choice!”, not now, and never again!
Athiests, by their own admission, have no soul, which explains their behavior, and most of these pro-abortion comments. They would fit in nicely in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Arnold P.
You’re pro slavery but anti-abortion? You must be, since you proudly wave your confederate flag.
Your’re all for the 2nd amendment, but not the 1st, 13th, 14th or 16th?
You’re all for protecting fetuses, but once they are born, you are against helping the parents care for them, if they need welfare?
How about the death penalty? How sanctified is human life, if the person is accused of murder? Do you then feel, that a woman who has an abortion should herself be put to death? The doctor who performed the procedure? The father?
What if the fetuses are black and in a Muslim womb? You still care about them? Or, Hispanic, in the womb of a woman who is living here undocumented?
How about the case of the child’s body that was found in Massachusetts a few months ago. The mother had given birth to several children. The others had been taken away from her by child services. She was a drug addict. The child had been neglected and abused, before being killed. This woman was a train wreck who kept getting knocked up and having babies.
What would have been better Arnold- making sure the woman was on birth control, or the woman getting a morning after pill, or a an abortion, or was it your God’s plan for this little girl to live in misery until she died?
How about getting the mother help for her addictions, helping her get an education, taking care of her medical conditions? OH, but That would require tax payer money.
Actually, Arnold, it is a woman’s choice. You’ve heard of Roe v. Wade, right?
By the way, I don’t think anyone is “pro abortion.” It’s “pro CHOICE.” There’s a difference.
NOTHING WRONG with these choices: They naturally go together.
Pro birth control, pro choice, pro women’s rights, pro family, pro 1st amendment freedoms.
Anti-child abuse, anti-domestic abuse, anti-discrimination based on gender, national origin, religion.
Don’t let ’em BS you! Every donation given to PP for any “non-abortion purpose” by the government (taxpayer dollars!) or anyone else FREES UP a dollar which they can spend FOR abortion. Simple as that.
IMAGINE the frothing at the mouth and howling by the lefties and their media Presstitutes if the most heinous murderer on Death Row was executed by the same means the lefties use to kill helpless, innocent babies by Partial-Birth Abortion! It would never stop!! You KNOW it!!
I’m noticing that the abortion “rights” supporters use the word “fetus”…
Never unborn child or baby.
Many years ago they could get away with claiming it was just a pile of fetal tissue with no feelings..
Since then it had been proven that the unborn “person” does indeed feel and react to pain.
I feel compassion for anyone faced with any situation where they are even considering this procedure.
Those women have a strong voice protecting their right.
I also feel compassion for the unborn child.
They have a right to “not be terminated”.
Who is “responsibly” fighting for their right?
Referring to that unborn person as a fetus..is de humanizing…which makes it easier to choke it all down.
The only ones I have no compassion for are the ones who only want to protect their positions rights at all costs.
That includes the idiots with the bloody signs protesting in front of the clinics..And the idiots hiding behind the fetus word.
These poor children who were denied a chance…
All else aside….it’s not right.
“Athiests, by their own admission, have no soul, which explains their behavior, and most of these pro-abortion They would fit in nicely in Sodom and Gomorrah.”
I am pretty sure that no one really knows too much about the existence (or not) of a soul
Thinking that they have a soul probably helps some folks get though the day and beyond
Thinking that they have no soul probably doesn’t get in the way of atheists (not athiests), it may just free up a lot of time for them
Holding one’s breath for a report from an “after life” of some form or specie probably is not a good idea
We might keep in mind if/when a positive report does come in it might be from a former atheist
Once upon a time nothing existed, no Time, no Space, no Matter, nothing. And it exploded and created everything, all by itself! We had Creation, but no Creator (of course!) We had Magic, but no Magician (of course!) Or at least that’s the way some people tell it! Explain how that could happen.
the f word:
It all begins with a zygote, then an embryo, then a fetus, then, if all goes well a child. I really doubt that anyone has even tried to make a case that a zygote- just a collection of a few hundreds of cells, has cognition of any sort.
Lets remember that many times, perhaps, (some experts say) more often than not, a impregnation does not lead to a birth. Mother nature is herself, an abortionist. This is true BTW, for most mammals.
Many child births, especially those in underdeveloped countries and in time past, were/are traumatic procedures for the infant as well as the mother. To observe one, you would most certainly assume there was pain for the child being born. Yet, I have never read an account by anyone who remembers the experience. I have been told that my own birth was quite difficult, yet I have no memory of it. I recall my infancy, (as much of it as I can remember), as generally a pleasant time.
It has not been demonstrated that a fetus feels pain. It has been demonstrated that it can respond to stimuli. I do not mean this in any way to be callous but, a worm also responds to stimuli. Bacteria respond to stimuli.
The facts are, we just do not know. We do not know at what point that we can say for sure that an embryo becomes a fetus and that it has all that is needed to become a living person. For some, that will never happen. Still births still occur, even with the finest of care.
Unfortunately, there will always be a need, in certain instances, for abortion. The need, or demand, for most abortions would be vastly reduced if we provided contraceptive care, instructions, drugs, condoms; for all, without regard to cost, without moral condemnation as well as offering the morning after pill when it’s needed.
We just can’t seem to get there in this country.
I suggest that if a baby has reached viability, meaning that it can live outside the womb, that it has “all that is needed to become a living person”. I believe that is accepted as approximately 20 weeks (5 months) after conception. I certainly agree there can be valid medical reasons for abortion due to the health of the child or mother at ANY point in the pregnancy, plus the obvious rape, incest, etc., reasons. I personally feel that abortion on demand is acceptable up to the point of viability, but not afterward. I disagree with both the abortion-on-demand-period and no-abortion-period groups. A viable baby that is equipped to live an acceptably normal life should not be aborted. Have it delivered alive, even prematurely, if the mother is unwilling to carry it to term. Adoption is preferable to abortion. I have but one opinion, and one vote. Let the majority rule.
Snowman..
Great job with the words.
You are very good at using those.
But it won’t convert anyone.
You are splitting hairs at best about the stimuli…
Many aborted babies are far enough that even you can’t deny there is pain and suffering.
But you still might.
Call it stimuli if you like. (Let’s call it..”your right to choose”)..
It’s a core belief that separates the sides on this issue.
Big difference separates us.
Word up all you like..if you think that’s going to convert anyone..think again.
Re Snowman’s “The need, or demand, for most abortions would be vastly reduced if WE provided contraceptive care, instructions, drugs, condoms; for all, without regard to cost, without moral condemnation as well as offering the morning after pill when it’s needed”. Lefties always want US to pay THEIR bills, and pay for their irresponsibility and mistakes and changes of mind. Snowman doesn’t want us to even criticize such behavior! Give them everything he wants, and there will still be many who won’t use it, not even the Morning After pills, and will demand WE pay for their abortions-on-demand. You would think from his comments that all of that is OUR fault, not the fault of the irresponsible behavior, not behaviors those people need to correct! Do you see in any of his comments anything about those people needing to behave more responsibly? I don’t!
I choose to believe that God exists and that He is Love.
I believe He is the Creator of every single life.
I believe He loves every life He creates..
I believe only He knows our hearts.
I believe we will answer to Him face to face and understand justice clearly.
I believe the fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding.
I don’t believe He will answer to us. Not now or ever.
Arnold,
I would suggest that a neonate is no more viable than a fetus at 12 weeks. Neither can survive if left on its own.
Whether they can feel pain is immaterial, and the issue of viability is a false argument. I will submit that upon implantation, a zygote would be viable if you simply left it alone.
The question should be: are they each Human? and if so, are they entitled to their respective “Human” rights that the liberals and left wingers are always so keen on promoting? The neonate and the fetus both possess the same genetic code that makes them Human.
JR – Blecch.
You answered your own question JR.
Yes… they are human and have human rights.
And no….the “compassionate” liberals could not care less.
The wordy educational explanations they offer…..
Every criminal that ever pled not guilty has those.
@Yes “… they are human and have human rights.”
Here’s an indication of the many children that need a permanent home. Many are not babies any more. No doubt that many are non-white and many may have “special needs”.
How many of you can honestly say that you have personally taken this matter to heart and wish to make a tangible difference in the lives of these kids?
http://icareaboutorphans.org/consideringadoption/waitingkidsinyourstate/
Elmira..
Is your point is that these children would be better off dead(aborted/terminated)
Because of bad circumstances?
I would direct your attention away from your defeatism..
Do you know of or at least willing to accept that there really are millions of well adjusted and happy adults who OVERCAME horrific environments early in their lives?
These overcomers have the most complete appreciation of…..life.
Of course they don’t all make it….but neither do the wealthy.
What’s the saying…if only one life is saved it’s worth it.
Statistics don’t tell the real story.
If only ONE makes it……….
better off dead:
I took Elmira’s comment to mean that the same people who want to end abortion are also unwilling to spend any tax money on helping those who are born. They are also not willing to provide help for those who could use it for contraceptive care.
Then, that are also the ones who complain about the crimes committed by people who all too often come from troubled childhoods. They don’t want to help them, they don’t want to prevent them, they don’t want to educate them. They don’t want to spend money on jails, or have them near where they live, they don’t want to spend more for police protection.
@better off dead: What a corruption of my question and intention. You should keep your miserable comment to yourself. It’s you that is the defeatist.
I simply wanted to point out that there are children that need help. Who’s willing to help?
http://icareaboutorphans.org/consideringadoption/waitingkidsinyourstate/
Sorry, can’t get past the censor.