Huckabee would criminalize abortion providers, condescend to women
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday, "I think if a doctor knowingly took the life of an unborn child for money, and that's why he was doing it, yeah, I think you would, you would find some way to sanction that doctor...I don't know that you'd put him in prison, but there's something to me untoward about a person who has committed himself to healing people and to making people alive who would take money to take an innocent life and to make that life dead."
Nice. (And you have to love that he assumes the doctor is a man.) But even better: "I think you don't punish the woman, first of all, because it's not about ... I consider her a victim, not a criminal." Yet another women-don't-realize-they're-getting-abortions argument. Sigh.
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Mr. Huckabee is right about one thing. There is something untoward (indeed far worse than untoward) about someone, male or female, taking an innocent life for money. That is why so few respectable doctors will perform abortions. I used to be fairly liberal in my thinking on this issue. But the more I studied it the more I realized "it is the dregs of the medical profession who perform abortions". I also realized the promoters of elective abortion do not care about women's health, their shouts to the contrary not withstanding. If they did they would not tolerate that situation, nor would they tolerate the abuses that take place in this coutnry's abortuaries.
From the way I see it, the ONLY people who seem to truly care about women's health and well-being are those who support our reproductive rights - ALL of them.
Last I checked, Fairy Tale Land was closed and unwanted pregnancies would often end in horrible circumstances if the mothers were forced to keep them.
At least Huckabee knows what he believes and he believes it strongly. Ultimately, he's fighting for your life too... think about it... if your mother was more concerned with herself when she was pregnant with you... and it was so easy, so easy to be convinced there's nothing wrong with it, you may not have been here at all.
Wendyful04, just because you carry a child to term, giving life, doesn't mean you have to keep the child. There are so many families desparate for a child. And, even if the woman decided to keep the child after getting to know the peanut within her womb, she may realize how much more there is to life than she thought before.
Typical arguments that miss the points of the pro-choice movement.
The issue is about a woman's personal freedom within her own body, not whether or not she will have to keep a baby she carries to term. BTW, I had to be put on bed rest throughout my pregnancy. What did that mean for me? It meant that if my mom did not take me in when I had no way of working to support myself at this time, I would have ended up.....where?
My body, my choice.
My mom's body, her choice.
After begging 15 doctors to tie my tubes and finally getting one of them to do it, I no longer have to worry about my next abortion. Harsh words? Yeah, I would rather kill myself than be forced to carry another pregnancy to term.
That's reality. Like it or not.
There are an infinite number of stories out there,and it would be quite dangerous and irresponsible for lawmakers to decide that the right to affordable birth control and/or safe, elective abortion should end, just because they feel this 'undying devotion' to an unborn child.
Funny thing, I don't see many solid support systems (being put into place by many of these same lawmakers) for poor mothers/families who choose to have a child. Yet, every woman is to be expected to carry to term every pregnancy?
Dangerous, careless, unthinking.....
Here's my new view: "pro-choice vs anti-choice", rather than "pro-choice vs pro-life". I'm pro-life AND pro-choice.