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Public funding for family planning reduces abortions
From AP:
Publicly funded family planning prevents nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 800,000 abortions in the United States each year, saving billions of dollars, according to new research intended to counter conservative objections to expanding the program.
Take that, you freaking fundies! I've always believed that Planned Parenthood prevents more abortions than any other organization. Now can we put the family planning funding in the Health and Human Services budget?
Publicly funded family planning prevents nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 800,000 abortions in the United States each year, saving billions of dollars, according to new research intended to counter conservative objections to expanding the program.
Take that, you freaking fundies! I've always believed that Planned Parenthood prevents more abortions than any other organization. Now can we put the family planning funding in the Health and Human Services budget?
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I thought that this message was one of the finest to come from the Obama campaign against McCain.
Read Justice Putnam's blog a couple days ago.
While McCain put quotes around "the health of the mother" Obama had to come up with a Democratic answer.
Everybody hates abortion. Nobody gets up in the morning and says, how can we work together to kill more babies.
Obama said everybody needs to work together to cut the number of abortions in this country.
Simple message.
Planned Parenthood has done so much good work for, what, seventy years? 100 years?
Palin would take Nancy Reagan's advice, just say no. And there is her young daughter getting a few bucks, I assume, for giving interviews that she was not prepared for, untrained for, and innocently notes that just say no, does not work.
I like Roe V. Wade. Came out of nowhere. Three, three and three. I personally believe that with the new technology with regard to preventing pregnancies that a woman should have two or three months to decide and then that is it; except when the health of the mother is at stake. We even after day after pill.
But I do not like the government interfering in the relationship between a doctor and a woman and I do not think I should make the decision.
The only conclusion that seems reasonable to me is education and the distribution of pharmaceuticals and devices that prevent pregnancies. That seems to be the goal of the New President.
February 24, 2009 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
What the anti-choice people forget is that they can never take away a woman's right to get an abortion. There are lots of things a woman can do to herself to get rid of an unwanted fetus. All they can do is take away her right to get a safe and legal abortion.
For anyone out there, I highly recommend the movie "Vera Drake." It's the story of a woman who performed abortions before they were legal.
February 24, 2009 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, back in the 50's & 60's cousins, would disappear for a short while. And then return as if nothing happened.
A type of paramedical midwifery grew up. Deaths occurred. I am with you believe me.
February 24, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have a friend whose relative (grandmother?) died from an attempt at self-induced abortion 50+ years ago. The woman's husband was a pharmacist and gave her some kind of drug or herbal concoction to take that was supposed to do the job. She bled to death while he was at work.
February 24, 2009 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I remember in my portion of the midwest before Roe v Wade that girls in high school would suddenly have to go visit relatives nobody ever heard of before in the state of New York (usually with their mothers) for a 3-5 day visit. For those of you too young to know, New York was one of the few states that allowed abortion prior to Roe. When they came back there were never any stories about what they did or where they went or what they saw. And those were the girls who were lucky.
Those were dark and shameful days indeed and we must never allow the morons to force us back into that darkness.
February 25, 2009 2:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Everybody hates abortion. Nobody gets up in the morning and says, how can we work together to kill more babies.
Thanks, dd. That has long been an argument of mine and one that I wish the Democrats would use more often. But then again, I'm one of those that think women should be able to have sex any time they want to without consequences, so I'm probably suspect in my thinking.
February 24, 2009 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish we could get over the phrase "killing babies," altogether when talking about abortion. Fetuses are expelled naturally every day. We don't have funerals when people who have spontaneous abortions; in fact most people don't even know they were pregnant when they lose a pregnancy that early.
A baby is a baby; it is not a blastocyst; this rhetoric of baby-killing is what has allowed republicans, who depend on their voting base (for whom they have no respect) to keep their financial base in power. Then they scare them with terms like "death tax" and make them believe it refers to them!
We need to watch our words because the one thing the repubs ae skillful at it is lying without shame and using words that inflame.
February 24, 2009 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with ya, ddn, but preventing abortions is not the fundies main objective. As Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America so quaintly put it:
Words fail me sometimes. This was one of them.
February 24, 2009 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe that's why so many republicans are closeted gays, or frequent prostitutes. In those situations the only consequences are when you get caught. Then you just deny deny deny. Or stand there with your wife and say you're sorry.
February 24, 2009 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I could not agree with you more. The facts are certainly on the side of funding planned parenthood and all other birth control options, but you have to remember that it isn't unintended pregnancy they want to end. Ya know how they always fight birth control? They are against sex without procreation. they are against sex out of wedlock. It's pretty hard to reason with that sort of stupidity.
February 25, 2009 2:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right. They see pregnancy as a fitting punishment for sex. They only care about the fetus until it's born.
February 25, 2009 9:43 AM | Reply | Permalink