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5 Unresolved Questions on Abortion in Healthcare Debate

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When the world wakes up and sees the lawmakers who have actually passed laws in the US allowing innocent unborn children to be murdered , what will they say ? What will they do? Children are our most precious resources & yet they do not receive the protection they deserve. How can a country be called civilized if it allows such atrocities ? In the US you have the right to life , liberty & the pursuit of happiness. How can you take that right away from an unborn child when they have committed no crime? Abortion is a crime against humanity& must be stopped.

Sueb of TX 7:51PM December 17, 2009

How can abortion be health care? Abortion is "damaged care" not "health care" or even "managed care" - pregnancy is not a disease or medical disorder.
Why would we want to fund a procedure that increases our citizen's risk of pre-term birth, suicide, subtance abuse and BREAST CANCER for a non-disease, pregnancy?
See the documented disastrous health effects on women by abortion at Concerned Parents Report at http://tinyurl.com/3bcmgt

Kevin of PA 3:47PM December 11, 2009

If a woman is raped and becomes pregnant she has the right to decide to have the baby or not. If you think otherwise you are a sick, sick human being.
Also, This abortion debate is just a smokescreen to take the attention off of the real issue at hand, the public option, and stop this health care bill from passing. If this bill lacks a plan for a public option it will be utterly worthless and a waste of time. The amount of backroom dealing and extra clauses added to it have really made this whole thing a complete joke. It is insulting to all of us Americans who are uninsured to sit and watch our elected officials debate unrelated laws and ideologies that do nothing get in the way of real solutions. Roe vs. Wade is a law on the books. This bill is about health care, not abortion. Save the abortion argument for another time.

Adam of NY 3:31PM December 11, 2009

Genes do not determine such things as criminal behavior. The Son of Charles Manson was adopted and is living a normal life.
A baby does not come out of it's mother's womb a rapist, drug addict, or a killer. There are thousands of children adopted due to their mothers being raped and they live lives according to how they are nurtured by their adoptive parents.
The cause of criminal behavior is found in many variables such as broken homes, abuse and trauma, low self esteem and poverty to name a few. These individuals do not feel loved and supported by their parent(s) and family members and friends. They also are not spiritually rooted and therefore lack a connection with their creator and His love for them.
God is love. Love is utimately the answer to all of lifes problems. Murder of innocent children is not a loving act.

Karen of PA 1:35PM December 11, 2009

If a person is pregnant because of a rape she is the victim of a horrible crime and so is the human being living inside her.Why wouldn't you let that innocent life be born? Since when did it become o.k. to kill another human being? There are always families waiting to adopt a child. Abortion is not o.k. it is a crime against hummanity. Love one another!!!!

kathy of TX 10:31AM December 11, 2009

Let's look at this from a couple different perspectives for a moment...
First, there's rape-babies. Let's imagine for a moment that you have a daughter. Now imagine she gets raped. Traumatizing, right? Now imagine that she becomes pregnant from the rape. Still want that life being born? Chances are the mother's not going to want the baby of a rape, so she's not going to treat it as well as she would if she actually wanted the baby. This'll probably, but not definetly, lead to abuse and neglect, plus the child will only have one parent, who might still be in High School. Thus, the baby will have a much higher chance to become a criminal. Congratulations, because you refused to let the girl have an abortion, we now have one more criminal on the streets, and worse, the rapist's genes have been passed on.
Then, some women just can't have a baby. Either they have a lung problem or something else, but having a baby would literally kill them. So, because of the Pro-life protestors, a woman AND her baby died.
Now, I'm not saying you should run about having abortions all the time instead of using protection or something, and I'm not saying it's right, just don't argue that you're just killing lives when you give an abortion, because that rape-baby turned criminal is pretty likely to kill someone...or die him/herself later in life, or the mother could die with the baby. If you want the statistics, read the book 'Freakonomics.' It talks about how, because of legalized abortion, crime rates dramatically dropped.

TJ of OH 9:44AM December 11, 2009

The punishment for abortion is nuclear war, that is a guote for a wonderful woman named Mother Therisa. Believe it or not.

Mary of LA 8:34AM December 11, 2009

I think in my humble opinion I think abortion should be cut out of the human socitey and also within the animal society

Larissa Toney of CA 6:16PM December 10, 2009

Bring it all down to one thing: funding. Why add on more when we need to take care and reform what is already here, instead of adding something new to the mix. Abortion in a form of destroyiing life. Well, there goes a taxpayer for the future. OR maybe a burdden who knows? Why make a bill that can destroy when we need to rebuild this nation.

Aadrea of OR 2:50PM December 10, 2009

Why should tax payers have to pay for other people's abortions? Many of us think abortion is an abomination. Have you ever seen an untrasound of a baby in the womb? You can even tell who the baby resembles. I worked as a labor and delivery nurse who cannot ever forget the screams of the mothers when told their baby died in utero. Please don't use my taxes to pay for scraping babies out in pieces.

Mary Ann O'Brien of IN 2:39PM December 10, 2009