Mike Pouraryan
Of course this goes beyond just abortion stances. On issues such as health care, family planning, and sex education Obama ranks miles above McCain. Though there has been some fury over Obama's comments on abstinence education I can't help but think that when he said "education and abstinence education" that he was referring to both real sexual education and abstinence. First it's a matter of semantics. The word "and" in there conveys to me that he means both, and the lact of the "only" attached to the end of abstinence makes me think that he's not promoting abstinence only education. Also, I just can't believe the man who said "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools" was the right thing to do for kindergarteners would take that back once the kids were old enough to actually be having sex. Call me old fashioned but I don't see teaching "the safest way is not to have sex" controdicts "But if you do, here's how to stay healthy."
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I don't have any doubts that Obama will support comprehensive sex-ed and not the farce that is abstinence only education. I'm also sure that he will be taken to task for that by the religious right, but I'm hopeful that he will not waver in endorsing a complete set of tools for dealing with sex and pregnancy.
Good post.
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Easy for you to say those things since YOU'RE ALIVE TO DO SO.
Comment by Summer Minor
Beside that, I don't see how her being alive has anything to do with her comment on overpopulation and people not ready to have children being responsible enough to do something about it when an accident occurs.
Of course it's easy for her to say since she's alive. As of yet no one has found a way to allow comments from beyond the grave (or a place of nonexistence).
The anti-choice really need to get better comebacks that "You were a fetus too!" and "What if your mom had chosen abortion?" Seriously, those are idiotic remarks and only further prove how little the anti-choice really grasp things.
Comment by Kimberly McCabe
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Moving to France
From another perspective it is other people telling other people not to trust their instinct. When my cat had kittens and one was born sick - she put it out of its misery and made it easier to protect and care for the other two. Sometimes I think wildlife are here to teach us. I'm not saying I believe in only survival of the fittest. But I think we each have the right to make decisions about procreating.
There are so many sides to the issue that I strongly feel people should be able to make their own decisions without the law interfering.
If a 12 year girls is raped (like recently in Romania) by a cousin, is she obligated to have this baby and ruin her childhood even more???
I was born 2 months early, 2 weeks after my mom turned 14 years old. She was raised catholic and from what I understand, is strongly against abortion, and didnt have a great maternal instinct. I was put into foster while in an incubator. I grew up in a physically abusive environment. I found half siblings and my natural mother....and she's at some point left all her children. And she's horribly depressed by the mess of her life. It took me a long time to get my life together. People who knew me 10 years tell me they never thought I would be able to get where I am. But in your mind its better that someone endure a whole lot of pain. Nobody has a crystal ball. And we all have our own ideas about our own spirits. I believe we live more than once. Does DNA makeup our spirit? Does are spirit and personality arrive at conception? I think the jury is still out on that one.
So the moral of the story to me, why do others get to choose someone's quality of life? I'm in my 30s and I just finished grad school in France....if I got pregnant sometime in the near future...I would probably not want to go through with it. And THAT is MY maternal instinct. Don't have children until YOU are confident in your own ability to be a good parent.