I just became absolutely livid reading through some comments on a blog ( http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19... ) and this was my comment back:

If your goal really is to 'save lives'; if your primary concern really and truly is the children, then why not work harder towards prevention, assistance and alternatives yourself? Why strike down bills offering assistance to pregnant women in need? Why strike down assistance to children? Why fight national healthcare?

I know why and you know why. Because your concern is not the children and your goal is not saving lives! Your goal is judgement. Your concern is with the ability to look down your nose in disdain at others. To shake your head in shame and feel better about yourselves. And, let's be honest, even you and your own have been faced with this horrible choice... and you and yours have gone against the very words you preach - because your abortion is the only moral one.

Wake up! You call a women selfish, and you call it a method of birth control and you say it's a procedure of convenience. Two-thirds of women who abort say they cannot afford a child. Not just "oh, I won't be able to go to Aspen twice a year" can't afford... but no medical insurance, working 60 hours a week at $7.00 an hour can't afford!

From http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle... :
During the 1990s, as unemployment steadily decreased and average real income rose, the annual number of abortions in the U.S. actually decreased by 300,000 -- from 1,610,000 to 1,310,000 per year. But in 2002, the first full year of the Bush presidency, abortions increased in the 16 states for which I could find data by a total of 5,855. If the data from the rest of the nation fit that pattern, abortions increased nationwide in 2002 by about 24,000 a year, reversing the dramatic decreases of the 1990s.

Surely that increase reflects economic and social conditions. During the past three years, unemployment rates increased half again, average real incomes decreased, and for seven years the minimum wage has not been raised to match inflation.

Women who become pregnant worry about having health care for themselves and their children. There are 5.2 million more people today who have no health insurance than there were in 2000 -- and women of childbearing age are over represented in that group.

Poor and low-income women account for the majority of abortions. Their economic status is a major contributor to the abortion rate. Black and Latina women tend to be poorer and are more often unemployed, and their abortion rates are two to three times higher than those for white women. The 30-year trend shows abortion rates moving roughly in tandem with women’s unemployment rates.


IF YOU GIVE A SHIT ABOUT CHILDREN AND HUMANITY AND PEOPLE, FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT MATTER!! Fight for an administration who helps BUILD the ecomony! Fight for health coverage and child-care assistance and increases to the minimum wage so people can take COMFORT in bringing a child into this world, not become paraylzed with fear at the thought!!

Seriously. Wake the fuck up, assholes!

Thanks for letting me vent.