The Saudi Arabia abortion laws & the GOP platform re: abortion

[K8-EEE]

What's the difference?

I wish they would stop letting them constantly define this issue in the phony "partial birth" crap.

The VAST MAJORITY of abortions are done in the first 6 weeks, and many done with medication not surgery.

The GOP would like American women to have the same reproductive freedom as a Saudi woman. Truly how many Americans think the morning after pill should be illegal in this country?

This is a losing issue for the GOP, if they would stop letting them frame the issue in a phony way. The REALITY is they stand for CRIMINALIZATION of procedures that are only criminal in dictatorships and theocracies.

[chelsea0011]

1. McCain has said it..."conception is the beginning of life". Now anyone worth

a rat's ass in the media should get tough with him. Because if what he says is true then anyone can commit a crime, including death, to save the "infant" from death. The law is not with McCain on this so he should be asked point blank to choose between the two...doctor or "infant unborn". It's one thing to appease the anti-choice people with his conception quote, it's another to choose the life of a fetus over a doctor.

[K8-EEE]

3. Yes a one day microscopic "infant" has more legal rights than a woman

according the GOP.

[niyad]

2. it isn't just abortion they want to stop, it's contraception as well.

The Centers for Disease Control is not the first place one looks to for ideas on conflict resolution. But with one issue that has divided America, it should be.
AUGUST 14, 2008
A bitter pill in election season
A recent CDC study revealed that between 1990 and 2004 teenage abortion rates plummeted by 50 percent in the U.S. The researchers suggest one common-sense policy approach is most responsible: access to contraception.

As political campaigns around the country take very different stands on the abortion issue, there is no question that this argument will intensify. And the stakes couldn't be higher. The next president, if history is any measure, is likely to appoint two Supreme Court justices. Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, currently stands by one vote. The next election will likely decide whether Roe v Wade remains the law of the land.

Against this political backdrop, another, potentially more important, reproductive rights conflict may get lost. In fact, the issue many candidates don't want voters to think about is not abortion, but contraception, and the media hasn't called them on it.

Access to contraception is the only proven way to reduce unwanted pregnancy rates. It's no wonder that Americans on both sides of the abortion debate overwhelmingly support contraception. Yet few know that more and more candidates vying for their vote don't. Across the states, anti-abortion organizations have added anti-contraception activities to their agenda and expect those they help elect to office to join in these efforts. Since this issue isn't on most voters' radar, most complacently comply

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http://www.csindy.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28484

[stillcool]

4. I find it hard to believe

that Americans care more about some woman they don't know having an abortion, than whether they will be able to afford to live. If I'm wrong, then McCain should win. Luckily I have no children, and have already lived a great life surrounded by wonderful people who are nothing like the stereotypical Americans being portrayed in current day political discourse.

[K8-EEE]

5. I know....how about just being able to AFFORD having a kid??

Honestly....it's tough enough on OK middle class (read: UNION) salary/benefits, how people do it on min. wage is beyond me.