Abortion Foes Circulate Abortion-as-Tonsillectomy Video

July 24, 2009 RSS Feed Print
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This video of Rep. Lynn Woolsey comparing abortion to having one's tonsils removed, from a House Labor and Education Committee debate on healthcare reform Wednesday, is making the rounds in the conservative blogosphere. The debate is over an amendment (ultimately unsuccessful) that would have prevented the government from requiring healthcare plans to cover abortion.

Here's what Woolsey, a Democrat from California, said:

[Abortion] is a legal medical practice and by even having to talk about it . . . we're not talking about having your tonsils out and whether you can or can't. It's all based on religious matters and ideas that different people have. They have every right for those ideas. Let them have an abortion or not have an abortion based on their needs, not ours.

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I am deeply saddened by the abortion tragedy! I believe God is the true giver of life!

Perhaps abortion supporters would do well consider the great irony in this thought: If all the mothers of abortion supporters had decided to have abortions, there would be no abortion supporters! Abortion supporters are alive today by the grace of God and because their mothers chose life!

Life Supporter of CA 2:14AM July 28, 2009

Just as a sidebar to all this, someone asked why God has let this go on so long? I don't know about the rest of these United States, but I know what I am seeing in this state. The honeybees and bumblebees are disappearing. So long, flowers and many fruits. The bats are dying off due to white fungus disease. Hello, mosquitoes, big time and the resultant diseases and plagues, especially in the light of an extremely wet and cooler summer. And now we have the tomatoes dying in the fields from potato blight. Yes, that same potato blight that virtually destroyed a nation back in 1847-8, and sent many of them in sheer desperation to America. They would be my ancestors, in a way. No tomatoes this year and if it spreads, some other things as well.

I am keeping my eye on two things: New Jersey and the Empire State Bulding. Nostradamus predicted( According to many.) that there would be a severe drought in that state. Not a California type or prolonged drought, but a Dust Bowl style drought. The other was a prediction by The Virgin Mary in Bayside, New York that the great King Kong building would be invaded from the inside by terrorists, and a long and protracted gun battle would ensue for quite a few hours , during which time, thousands would be killed, primarily Jews, by these fanatics. Thankfully, the great old building will still be standing, but the slaughter would be on a scale of 9/11.I have a very open mind on these things, being a sinner, myself. But I will say this: I am seeing some disturbing and heretofore astonishing things happening in the natural world as I type this that mankinds' wonderful science seem helpless against. It took the Creator 6 full days to create it all. Perhaps," In God's own good time..."( the memorable ending phrase spoken by James Mason as Captain Nemo in Disney's superior film 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA.) He is starting to press down His hand as a response to what He is witnessing.

Gerard of NJ 6:06PM July 27, 2009

I note that whenever an individual who does not believe in the right to life refers to the unborn they use the words ; zygotes, fetus or simply “a clump of cells”. But you know, I have never heard expectant mothers saying things like; “My clump of cells is a girl.” or, “My zygote is due in 8 months.” nor do they say, “I feel my fetus kicking.” It seems it is the “wanting” that now defines the value of human life.

These “unwanted lives” need to be depersonalized - The unborn within the womb denied their humanity. The baby then becomes a “Choice” when it is unwanted by the irresponsible. It is transformed into a “personal decision” by the vote hungry politician and a burdensomE “inconvenience” to the self-centered student or career minded professional. I guess reality is sometimes just too painful to face head on.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:08PM July 27, 2009

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