Sarah Palin smeared again… and again
The Boston Herald reported June 24 on yet another Sarah Palin smear:
U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner [David] Letterman yesterday.
The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre” tale of how SC Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for 4 days” and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.
“Too bad,” Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of AK. You know, Sarah Palin.”
The Democratic-centric crowd laughed….
IMO Kerry was actually channeling an adolescent. Target aside, his joke was just stupid. Kerry’s nowhere near Letterman’s league. Furthermore, he made the joke before we knew Sanford was visiting his Argentinian lover. So his comment almost sounds like a bit of a death wish to me.
If that all weren’t enough, now photoshopped pictures of Palin and son Trig are making the rounds on the internet. Palin’s spokesperson, Meghan Stapleton, responded in the Politico:
The mere idea of someone doctoring the photo of a special needs baby is appalling.
To learn that two Alaskans did it is absolutely sickening. Linda Kellen Biegel, the official Democrat Party blogger for AK, should be ashamed of herself and the Democratic National Committee should be ashamed for promoting this website and encouraging this atrocious behavior.
Babies and children are off limits….
Biegel flippantly responded she was only making fun of the man whose face was photoshopped over baby Trig’s – AK radio host Eddie Burke – not Sarah or Trig.
Still, the damage has been repeatedly done. But wait, to whom? According to LifeNews.com, a recent Pew poll finds Palin’s favorable ratings on the rise, from 42% to 45% since last October. So the vilification of Palin and her family is apparently resulting in an unintended consequence: Palin popularity.
Cheryl Dickow wrote in Catholic Exchange why pro-life, white women like Sarah Palin are so despised:
By all accounts, Palin should have been embraced by the feminist movement that has so venomously attacked the men who created the “glass ceiling.”
What then, did Palin have, or not have, that the feminist movement chose not to welcome this woman governor as a viable candidate for the vice-presidency? Say what you will, but to claim, after the Biden cat has been let out of the bag many, many times, that Palin was not qualified to be second-in-command is just absurd.
So what was it about Palin that brought the absolute vicious – yet clearly acceptable – attacks upon her as a person and as a candidate? It would seem that her choice to carry to term a baby with Down syndrome along with her staunch pro-life stand made her public enemy number one.
[Photo attributions: Boston Herald; millionface.com; conservatives4palin.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Palin 2012!!! can’t come soon enough!
Keep up the nasty smear tactics, proaborts… you are helping her more than you will ever know….
Again, what would happen if Michelle or the Obama girls were the recipients of this behavior?
Yes, children are off limits. Except Palin children.
It would seem that her choice to carry to term a baby with Down syndrome along with her staunch pro-life stand made her public enemy number one.
Precisely! Two years ago when CO Rep Ted Havey explained the cause of his invited guest Gianna Jessen’s cerebral palsy, proabort Rep Alice Madden was quoted as saying, “I think it was amazingly rude to use a human being as an example of his personal politics.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1657236/posts
Proaborts cling to their lies and don’t want any living examples to prove them wrong. Trig and Gianna are both beautiful triumphs of life over the death mentality that has gripped our nation.
1) Neither joke was out of line. The jokes were neither sexist nor were they mocking her children.
2) It is ludicrous to believe that pro-choicers don’t like Palin because she has a Down’s syndrome baby. (Just a thought — maybe we don’t like her because she isn’t pro-choice.)
3) As a feminist, I admire Palin’s tough country-girl attitude and the work-family set-up she has achieved. But that doesn’t mean I have to like her politics or her rhetoric or the fact that she sounds like a moron whenever she opens her mouth. (Sorry, but you can be a conservative woman without sounding stupid. See Margaret Thatcher, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Dole, and on and on.)
4) I was never really angry with Palin. I WAS angry with McCain, whom I had previously respected. He was happy to throw the country under the bus by putting this idiot a heartbeat away from the presidency, just so he could pander to a conservative bloc he had previously given every indication of despising. It was a grossly cynical move that evidenced profound disrespect for the American people.
1)Are you blind?
2)They don’t like her because she didn’t abort her Down Syndrome baby.
3)Don’t like her but call her a moron. Oh and stupid.
4)I find Biden to be evidence of a profound disrespect for the American people. Call Palin an idiot.
Moron, stupid, idiot. When you can’t think of anything to say, fall back on name calling.
A round of applause for Carla.
Seriously, pro-choicer?
1) No.
2) That is silly. (Why on earth would pro-choice people be angry at her for having a Down’s Syndrome baby. It is her CHOICE. I, for one, heartily applaud her decision, as do the 2 pro-choice Down’s Syndrome parents I am privileged to know.)
3) Well, yes, my opinion that she is stupid is, just that, my opinion. Jill seemed to question why feminists dislike Palin. I didn’t realize I was required as a feminist to suport all female candidates. I thought I had the right to judge female candidates based on my beliefs regarding their politics and their competence. I admire the feminist aspects of Palin’s life but I still think she is stupid.
4) I wasn’t aware that Biden (whom I quite like) was popular with a base of people with whom Obama had previously had problems.
we’re really divided as a country. I don’t like it.
Palin is doing her best, with good intentions. So is Obama. I suppose, Gov. Stanford, in his own way, is trying also.
And, as a reminder, I am more than willing to condemn sexist attacks on Palin (as in the Letterman thread). But she doesn’t get a free pass on all derogatory humor just because she is a woman and a mother. She has to take her lumps along with the male politicians, as does Hillary Clinton and other liberal female officeholders.
Liberals dislike Sarah Palin for her message; they hate her because she’s beautiful.
Liberals dislike Sarah Palin for her politics. However, I don’t hate her. (but I don’t have to live in Alaska either). From a purely political point of view, I was overjoyed when McCain picked her, and I’ll be overjoyed if she’s on the ticket in 2012.
Hi Hal,
Glad to know you aren’t hate-filled against Sarah, as so many liberals seem to be. I was very happy when McCain picked her. I don’t know if 2012 will be her year, but I look forward to her being around for a long time. I think she’ll have more mass-appeal as she gains experience.
As an Obama voter, I probably should be glad that McCain self-destructed. But I would rather have had a clean race between two honest politicians who care about the country but simply have different visions about what is best for it. When McCain was nominated, I thought that was what we were going to have. Instead, we got the worst sort of cynical and ham-fisted game playing by the McCain folks. While I was glad that it led to an Obama victory, it gave me no pleasure to watch.
I said right from the beginning when she was picked as McCain’s running mate that she would be targeted because:
1) She’s a Christian
2) She’s pro life
3) She’s a conservative
I agree with Rush Limbaugh that liberals keep smearing her because they are scared of her. If they really think she’s so irrelevant and dumb why do they keep brining her name up?
And John Kerry is a moron for saying what he did.
I also agree all kids are off limits….. except Sarah and Todd’s kids!
“If they really think she’s so irrelevant and dumb why do they keep brining her name up?”
Who said she was irrelevant? She had the Republican VP nomination last year and is enormously popular with a significant far-right base!
They are terrified of Palin as they should be.
Hal: “we’re really divided as a country. I don’t like it.”
You’ll have to get used to it, though. We’ve always BEEN a divided country, and not because of George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Sarah Palin or John Kerry or anyone else. We’re a divided country because we all disagree on everything. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. How boring would it be if everyone were the same?
“And, as a reminder, I am more than willing to condemn sexist attacks on Palin (as in the Letterman thread). But she doesn’t get a free pass on all derogatory humor just because she is a woman and a mother. She has to take her lumps along with the male politicians, as does Hillary Clinton and other liberal female officeholders.”
I agree with you on that. When WJC ran for president in 1992, both he and Hillary said they’d be a team if he were elected; she wouldn’t just be baking brownies in the White House kitchen. Fine — but when Republicans began to criticize some of her ideas during the campaign, some on the left wanted it both ways by asking, “Why are they attacking HER?” Well, if you come into the pool, you’re going to get wet, y’know?
I never got the impression that Palin was playing the gender card last year, which is good, because I would’ve lost respect for her if she had. This “Sarah Palin smeared” bit is just one more example not of a male/female thing, but of how left-wing slams of righties (“Wouldn’t it be great if Sarah Palin were missing?”) get chuckled at by the media, while anything said in the reverse direction receives condemnation on the NEW YORK TIMES editorial page, calls for the “guilty” party’s resignation, and a sudden call from the left for “civility.” Start reading Bernard Goldberg’s books for more examples of the double standard.
I don’t think Palin herself played the gender card — but I think the Republicans played it on her behalf.
I’ll just repeat…Palin in 2012 !!!
..now, who’s the VP?
It always surprise me when people say liberals hate Palin because she is beautiful. If that were the case, you’d see liberal lining up out the door to criticize Angelina Jolie. Personally, I believe it is possible to be both beautiful and a great leader. Unfortunately, while Palin may be the first, she is not the second.
Also, the Chinese government is pro-abort, not me. I am pro-choice. I would never counsel or force any woman to have an abortion. I would never have one myself (even if I knew the child would be special needs). My preference would be better education and access to birth control so that no woman is ever put in the position of having to consider an abortion because of her circumstances. But if she requires one, I hope that she never has to go to a back alley and risk death.
Prochoicer: “I don’t think Palin herself played the gender card — but I think the Republicans played it on her behalf.”
Not as a party, they didn’t, but yeah — many individuals did. Some wondered how Joe Biden was ever going to “debate a woman,” figuring that a man debating a woman had better put on soft gloves. (I think Biden’s a self-loathing male, anyway, so that added to that perception.) But I’d go up against Nancy Pelosi the same way I’d go up against Harry Reid: be congenial until you are attacked, and then Katie-bar-the-door…
Alison,
As I said, liberals dislike Palins message…. they HATE her because she’s beautiful too.
Angelina is a liberal…. is Angelina Jolie beautiful? I don’t see it.
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“My preference would be better education and access to birth control so that no woman is ever put in the position of having to consider an abortion because of her circumstances. But if she requires one, I hope that she never has to go to a back alley and risk death.”
Posted by: Alison at June 30, 2009 3:50 PM
No woman has to consider abortion. Making it legal gives woman the choice. Maybe it shouldn’t be legal to resolve that problem. Deaths in back alleys were greatly exaggerated back in the 1970’s as a way to popularize legal abortion. It’s an old wives tale. Deaths are occurring today in legal abortion clinics. So much for safe, legal abortion.
So many people say Sarah Palin isn’t too bright but what would you say about gaffe prone Biden?
And not being qualified….. what exactly qualified Obama? “community organizer” was his main experience and a few years in the Illinois Senate where he made a career out of voting “present.” Once he got into the US Senate he almost immediately began his campaign for President. And it seems he cant count to 10 without a teleprompter.
I will say, however, that I wouldn’t pick Sarah for the top of a Presidential ticket but would love to see her as running mate again in 2012.
My pick at this point would be Sen DeMint, House Leader Boehner or maybe Gov Perry. Mitt Romney is a possibility, but I’m not convinced he is entirely conservative.
Whoever wins in 2012 will have an ENORMOUS job to do. Look at the destruction this administration has brought in a scant 5 months. If cap and trade is passed in the Senate it’s going to be much, much worse. This administration as well as the Democratic congress are destroying the economy.
Hi Joanne,
At least Sarah Palin would know what “secret” means, unlike Biden who gave away the now no longer secret location of the VP emergency bunker.
PC,
Since you are so critical of Sarah Palin and her qualifications for the vice presidency, please tell us what you considered Obama’s qualifications for the presidency?
If you’re so concerned about an idiot in the VP spot, please read my 8:19PM post.
I just read 7 teenagers who were attending summer school classes in Detroit were gunned down. All survived but 3 are critically injured.
Anyone hear about this on national TV? Where’s the outrage? People don’t just gun down people because they’re deranged or homicidal, someone’s rhetoric must have inspired the shooter.
Did Obama express any concern for these kids or express any words of consolation to their families?
When will federal marshalls be assigned to summer schools to protect other students from being gunned down? Obviously this is part of a nationwide plot to gun down summer school students.
Hi Joanne,
At least Sarah Palin would know what “secret” means, unlike Biden who gave away the now no longer secret location of the VP emergency bunker.
Posted by: Mary at June 30, 2009 8:19 PM
Yes, for sure. Obama keeps Biden in hiding as much as he can. He definitely has foot in mouth disease.
And what’s in the water in Minnesota? I can’t believe anyone actually voted for Franken but he’s officially the Senator now.
Wonder how many dead people voted for him?
Alison,
Why wouldn’t you consider an abortion for yourself?
Joanne,
I am right across the St. Croix River from MN. First Ventura and now Franken…..?!
I wouldn’t consider an abortion for myself because I am both financially and emotionally able to care for a child. There are no people in my life who would abuse the child in any way.
But I am able to empathize with the plight of a woman whose life is endangered in bearing a child. Perhaps for medical reasons. Perhaps for financial reasons. Too many women have no medical insurance and no paid maternity leave and would be bankrupted by bearing a child. If they already have children, these children would go hungry and possibly even become homeless.There are women in abusive relationships whose partner will beat them for having the audicity to become pregnant, even though he was the one who refused to use birth control. There are even 9-year-old rape victims who have become pregnant. These women should be able to choose the safer path of a doctor-provided abortion.
Land of 10,000 embarrasing politicians. Joanne, I don’t know how many dead people voted here, but the Iron Range counties’ vote totals from election night to Thursday, Nov. 6, increased exactly 100 more votes for Franken, and exactly 100 more votes for Obama. Except the paper with the tally had been stamped Nov. 2nd, two days before the election. Coleman had plenty more reasons to doubt “results” like this. All I can say is God help us.
klynn73@8:53am
I hear the Iranian election officials have also found more votes for Ahmadinjad as well. Small world.
Alison,
You would never kill your own child but support a woman who would kill hers?
Ever heard of Pregnancy Care Centers? Amazing places, really. We offer support, encouragement, a place to live, leads on jobs, parenting classes, adoption referrals, friendship and compassion.
There is help for women and their children! Seriously, you need to open your eyes and look around.
Your scenarios can all be taken care of quite nicely, thank you very much.
Abortion is not safe, easy, painless or risk free.
Alison,
Carla’s right, there are so many alternatives for a pregnant woman. Abortion isn’t a necessity. The abortion industry tells us abortion is the only solution because it means money in their pockets. It’s never what’s best for a woman. The medical exception (protecting the life of the mother) is an example of a twisting of the truth about abortion. (See below.) The percentage of rapes that result in pregnancy are miniscule and the chance that a nine-year-old will become pregnant? Almost zero. Rape is a horrible thing, but the killing of an innocent child is horrible and wrong and won’t erase the pain.
Go to the link below to find a list of almost 500 members of the medical and scientific communities who have signed this statement regarding abortion to safe the life of the mother:
I agree that there is never a situation in the law or in the ethical practice of medicine where a preborn child’s life need be intentionally destroyed by procured abortion for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. A physician must do everything possible to save the lives of both of his patients, mother and child. He must never intend the death of either.
http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10682
? Declaration: Protecting the Life of the Mother: List
by ALL
Released December 20, 2005
This declaration was created by the public policy department of American Life League, Inc. It was circulated to members of the medical and scientific communities for review and endorsement. The physicians listed below have all signed statements of agreement with the declaration. Their signed statements are on file at American Life League, P.O. Box 1350, Stafford, VA 22555
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Janet,
I’m afraid there are indeed situations where an unborn child’s life will have to be destroyed to save the mother. I know of a few. Certainly no one desired this, it was due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control.
Fortunately these situations are rare.
The intention is not to kill the child but to try and save the lives of both. Unfortunately a child dies as a result. Is that accurate, Mary?
Right Carla. This is the principle of double effect where the action you take isn’t directly killing the child, but the action does result in the death of the child while saving the life of the mother.
Hi Carla,
For the most part yes, but there are circumstances, such as ectopic pregnancy where saving the life of the unborn is impossible and will be ended to save the mother’s life.
Also, an abortion induced to save the mother’s life. You are deliberatly destroying the life of the unborn to save the mother. Again, even if this is done midtrimester some effort may be made to save the baby on delivery, but no one really expects the baby to survive.
Another example is the one I have frequently mentioned, of the woman induced at 5 months because severe fetal and placental anomolies made a full term delivery very dangerous.
In all these situations the very tragic choice has had to made to end the child’s life to preserve the mother’s.
Hi Mary.
“Another example is the one I have frequently mentioned, of the woman induced at 5 months because severe fetal and placental anomolies made a full term delivery very dangerous.”
Right, and I think this is exactly what Carla and I have in mind. She was INDUCED, which was an action taken to save the life of the mother and sadly resulted in the death of the baby. Notice that she did NOT undergo a D&E or D&X. The action taken was not a direct killing of the baby. The ends are the same if you induce or undergo an abortion; live mother and dead baby, but in the former case you are taking an action to save the life of the mother which results in the death of the baby and the latter case you are directly killing the baby as a means to the ends of saving the life of the mother.
So I would say your case is perfectly legitimate but is not an abortion. An abortion needs to be defined as the direct killing of the embryo/fetus inside the womb. It is not the fuzzy definition that we get from the MSM and pro-choicers of the “termination of a pregnancy.”
Does that make sense?
And what’s in the water in Minnesota? I can’t believe anyone actually voted for Franken but he’s officially the Senator now.
Wonder how many dead people voted for him?
Posted by: Joanne at June 30, 2009 10:00 PM
What’s wrong with Franken?
Janet you don’t see angelina joule is beautiful? I can’t say I have ever heard anyone say that! Come on now. ….
Liberals don’t hate Sarah palin for her looks. They hate her for her politics and possibly the way she uses her position, her family, etc. You don’t hate angelina for her beauty. You hate her for her beliefs.
At least be honest.
Hi Margaret,
Liberals possibly hate Palin for how she “uses” her family? What is she supposed to do, hide them? I don’t recall either John or Bobby Kennedy being accused of using their families, and lord knows we saw enough of their kids, or any male vp or presidential candidate accused of any such thing.
Interesting double standard.
Hi Bobby,
Actually abortion is a medical term. We have induced abortion aka abortion, spontaneous abortion aka miscarriage, missed abortion, when the fetus dies and is not fully expelled by the uterus though the placenta and uterine lining has been, and incomplete abortion, in which the fetus may be full or partially expelled but the woman retains the placenta.
Miscarriage is the preferred term but medically it is called an abortion.
Yeah, I didn’t make it clear that while I do realize that it is a medical term, it is defined in a fuzzy way in popular society. And however it is defined medically, I think we as pro-lifers need to have a clear definition of what it is that we are against; in other words, what do we mean when we say abortion? What is abortion? I think the way it is defined above is one that encompasses all forms of the killing of the unborn that we find abhorrent, but does not include situations like you mentioned like ectopic pregnancies if we are careful with other terms. I’m just big on giving clear, well-defined definitions of words and avoiding semantics.
There’s a difference Mary between photo ops of tots peering from under the presidential desk and hauling your pregnant daughters boyfriend up on stage, dragging your downs baby out at all hours of the night, staging a” surprise” interview between your teen mom and your puppet Greta…..
“Janet you don’t see angelina joule is beautiful? I can’t say I have ever heard anyone say that! Come on now. ….”
“Liberals don’t hate Sarah palin for her looks. They hate her for her politics and possibly the way she uses her position, her family, etc. You don’t hate angelina for her beauty. You hate her for her beliefs.”
“At least be honest.”
Posted by: Margaret at July 1, 2009 3:24 PM
Margaret, reread Alison’s comment. She brought up Angelina, not me. I think she was implying that Angelina was beautiful by comparing her to Sarah Palin. I never said I had a problem with Angelina’s politics or HATE her… just that I (honestly) don’t find her attractive. Is she a big topic of conversation in your circles? Not mine…. I really don’t know anything about her except she’s married to Brad Pitt and has adopted many children. The point was that I think Sarah is attractive and that certainly adds to her appeal.
“The point was that I think Sarah is attractive and that certainly adds to her appeal.”
I should add, that I think her beauty detracts from her appeal in liberal circles. IMHO.
Bobby @ 4:48,
I agree. The word “abortion” conjures up different meanings to different people. We need to define what we are talking about medically before pro-lifers, pro-choicers and pro-aborts can have an intelligent discussion.
Hi Mary,
Just wondering, do you agree with the wording of the statement I posted at 10:02 (from the ALL site)?
Or, do you want legal abortion with an “exception” for the life of the mother ?
Come on Margaret,
The Kennedy kids and family were forever in magazines,etc. BTW, that pic of JJ was taken much to the chagrin of Mrs.Kennedy and while she was away. Apparently JFK had no such qualms about the kids being photographed. Sure was great PR.
Jackie Kennedy, a huge campaign asset, campaigned with her husband while she was very pregnant. Bobby’s kids were involved with his campaign. So please, let’s dispense with the double standard.
Hauling her pregnant daughter’s boyfriend onstage? Strange, I don’t recall seeing him hogtied or a gun to his head. At that time he was her fiancee and father of the governor’s grandchild. Perhaps they both wanted to be there, mmmmmmmm?
She “dragged” her DS child out at all hours of the night? Some examples please of how she “dragged” this child out at all hours of the nite.
BTW, like any normal baby, a DS baby eats, poops, burps, sleeps, cries, and can pretty much tolerate what any “normal” baby can.
If you’re so concerned about puppets, you should really have an issue with ABC news staging an Obama health care infomercial in the WH. The only thing they didn’t do was sit on Obama’s lap, something ventriliquist dummies usually do.
Hi Bobby
I’m sorry I missed the point you were trying to make.
Janet very well sums it up in her 5;19PM post.
I couldn’t put it any better.
Its easy to see how terminology can generate a lot of confusion, especially the term “septic abortion” which can simply mean the patient is miscarrying and has become infected. People immediately associate this with “back alley” abortion.
Janet 5:26PM
I would say the only twisting of the truth was using this argument,the mother’s life, to overturn all abortion laws.
Even when laws were at their strictest, exceptions were already made for a woman who’s life was truly endangered by a pregnancy.
We have to keep in mind there was an era when there may have been no other alternative than to abort.
With modern medical care and technology what it is, thankfully the incidence of the life of the mother versus the life of the child is rare, but it is not non-existent. Certainly a physician must do everything possible for both, but there are situations where a difficult and heartbreaking choice must be made.
Absolutely there should be an exception for the mother’s life. There always has been and always should be. I personally know of situations where a mother’s life was definitely at serious risk.
No, I don’t think you didn’t miss my point, Mary. I think I wasn’t very clear.
Mary,
Thank you. Shouldn’t we perhaps use everyday words, phrases, such as “we lost our baby” or “the baby died” instead of “the baby was aborted” or “I had to have an abortion” in the cases you describe? It seems to me the more we use the word “abortion” in conversation, the more numbed we become to its meaning which leads towards the slippery slope of abortion on demand that we have today in the U.S.
“Even when laws were at their strictest, exceptions were already made for a woman who’s life was truly endangered by a pregnancy.
We have to keep in mind there was an era when there may have been no other alternative than to abort. ”
Definitely. So many pro-choice commenters tell horror stories about serious medical problems occurring in pregnancies which required “abortion”. These are are stories of their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, etc… obviously very heartbreaking and not to be taken lightly. It would be interesting, I think, to compile these stories, to make a sort of history from which the abortion debate could procede. Medical professionals could have a role in determining how the old medical practices would be defined today to further intelligent discussion on abortion.
Hi Janet,
In fact we do prefer to use terms such as “miscarriage”, “the loss of a baby”, “fetal demise” in a patient setting. This is for the most part an extremely sensitive and difficult time for the woman. I think these terms are used by the general public more often as well, as they tend to think of abortion only as induced abortion.
PCs will usually fall back on horror stories while disregarding the era the incident took place in. One former poster mentioned her mother having a fetus die and rot inside her. This is certainly horrific but this occured over 50 years ago. This would be indefensible today with diagnostic techniques and prenatal care what they are. We simply cannot compare 50 years ago to now. We can’t compare 10 years ago to now.
I’ve seen PC websites with illegal abortion deaths dating back to the Civil War for heaven’s sake. Do they think there was safe surgical anything at all back then?? People routinely died of ear infections, diptheria, typhoid, and infected wounds. Give me a break.
Mary,
Gotcha. Yes, I remember the “former poster’s” comments. :(
Thanks for your comments. It’s always good talking to you.
It took all of 5 seconds on google to find cases of children 12 and under who were pregnant due to rape.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/03/06/catholic-church-excommunicates-mother-and-doctors-over-9-year-old-rape-victims-abortion/
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/05/your_day_in_ill_1.html
http://attiegoldwater.com/rositathemovie/doc.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0309-03.htm
http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2003_06/Week2/06_13_03.htm#story_one
In my childhood, I personally knew of a 10-year-old who had a baby after rape by a family member. But of course since it happens so “rarely” it doesn’t even count, I guess.
Again, education and birth control are the answers. If these were handled properly, abortions would be rare and only for extreme circumstances.