My top five favorite political cartoons for the week, beginning with a zinger by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…
by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…
by Chuck Asay at GoComics.com…
by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…
by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com (it’s all true, btw)…
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The cartoon with the spay-neuter clinic for people and their pets is right on. The HHS has already openly expressed it is better to prevent pregnancy and if you get pregneant it is better for society to help your terminate your child then it is to provide a woman and her child health care.
Spunky.
“if you get pregneant it is better for society to help your terminate your child then it is to provide a woman and her child health care.”
Uh, what? How is that better for society? Is that sarcasm?
Just to be clear, people are not a burden on society. People are society.
Denise, lately I’ve been pondering that very same question. I think the best prescription is to take the best of both worlds to speak. I believe that we should support contraception and sex education, like they do in Holland (I’m not going to make myself popular on this board by saying that). But we should continue to work towards criminalizing abortion. My argument is that Holland got its low abortion rate through preventing unintended pregnancies. There’s no obvious reason the same level couldn’t be reached in America and anywhere else. I also believe that laws do have a significant effect at reducing abortions (this point is somewhat controversial, but i believe it is true at least to some extent). Also, without legal abortion as a back up, my guess is people will be more vigilant in regards to preventing unintended pregnancies. Having said that, I feel this outcome is unlikely because politicians who support one policy are less likely to support the other, so yet again politics gets in the way of good policy.
“What can we learn from the low abortion rate in Holland? ”
That women in Holland are Dutch.
Whites in the USA also have much lower abortion rates.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/gpr110302.html
hippie, that link gives me a page not found.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/gpr110302.html
I am just trying it again as a test.
Anyway this is kind of the main point when just looking at the numbers:
“black women consistently have had the highest abortion rates, followed by Hispanic women (see chart). This holds true even when controlling for income: At every income level, black women have higher abortion rates than whites or Hispanics, except for women below the poverty line, where Hispanic women have slightly higher rates than black women.”
ok, that link works.
“if you get pregneant it is better for society to help your terminate your child then it is to provide a woman and her child health care.”
Uh, what? How is that better for society? Is that sarcasm?
Hippie, that is not sarcasm…that is what our HHS has declared.
Waiting for Ex-GOP to jump all over cartoon #4, which is lol funny.
#3 is sad, because it seems to be so true of our president’s attitude. Come November, we’ve gotta “turn this sucker out”.
A steady stream of very young African-American women going into my local Planned Parenthood on abortion day (Saturday) during 40 Days for Life. Proaborts just continuing the racist legacy of Margaret Sanger. It has absolutely nothing to do with “helping women” and everything to do with population control and the elimination of people who proaborts deem “weeds”.
I know this is off topic but there is an urgent need for Illinois prolifers to act tomorrow.
Jill and mods, I have heard that the Illinois ultrasound opportunity bill and the bill for abortion facilities to meet medical outpatient standards are probably going to be voted on this week before the Easter break and they need a ton of calls and emails from pro-lifers to all Illinois state representatives (even pro-life state reps) to get this bill passed.
The biggest misnomer of the pro-abort movement is that they are “pro-choice”. BTW, ultrasounds are already being done as standard procedure to establish the gestation of the “fetus” (i.e. unborn baby) to determine how much to charge for an abortion (cha-ching anyone hear a cash register ring?). This bill will give women the ”choice” to see their ultrasound (which is already being done as part of the procedure) if she wants to see the screen before having the abortion and the other bill will bring abortuaries up to the medical standards of all other outpatient ambulatory surgery clinics. Please call and email your IL state representatives tomorrow.
If it’s nothing but a”blob of tissue” let the woman have the “choice” to see her “blob of tissue”, it’s called “informed consent”. What do they have to fear, except they know it is all a big, fat lie.
The Netherlands (a European country which Holland is a part of) also has a mandatory five day waiting period before an abortion, along with mandatory non-trivial counseling:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:0xN3T_S5ZvoJ:www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/nether.doc+netherlands+%2B+abortion+%2B+waiting+period&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShcmY6GlEdDBnsWCWgdVyDzt4uVvAWMcsALvyZ9re8vrL9Qk04wSFLNe7g7hNyrcq2ZJcU1sEBNqGbJlCwefv1XfTZKTXMikzRxnD-e635xWFbUmX5B5HKb9CbVD1zodzBh9puO&sig=AHIEtbQNeoD7Ht6zRtkoEE98PjieX2roHw
It is interesting that the abortion lobby in North America, which balks at one day waiting periods, often uses this as a so-called “successful” example of the “safe, legal, and rare” model.
hippie says:
“black women consistently have had the highest abortion rates, followed by Hispanic women (see chart). This holds true even when controlling for income: At every income level, black women have higher abortion rates than whites or Hispanics, except for women below the poverty line, where Hispanic women have slightly higher rates than black women.”
Yes – they have more unwanted pregnancies.