Rep. Michele Bachmann: Pro-Choice When it Comes to Her Choice

So, so, so right on, Beth. This is the epitome of idiocy. I am so sick of the double-speak on important issues like reproductive choice and health care. Bachman is clearly a bot for the anti-choice movement and isn't capable of any intelligent thought. I hope God tells her to stop talking altogether. Then we can all have some peace (and choice).

That is so like the right. they are the same ones that say it is un-american to decry your president, or shout out at public meetings. But of course that only means "their" president , and of course it is o.k to shout if THEY are doing the shouting.
So I am not surprised to see those who have fought so hard to have government control our bodies and private medical decisions to now scream WE don't want government control ( unless of course it is controlling what THEY want)So ...Let me get this straight? you do NOT want the government to have control of any healthcare decisions, you only want government control of the uterus.Is that about sum it up ?

What a great essay illuminating hypocrisy! Apparently open-mindedness does not extend to traditional, conservative values. So-called "right-wing nut case" Rep. Bachmann's greatest crime seems to be her dedication to the founding principles of this great nation. Though it may be a shock to those who read blogs like this, the majority of America (you know that section between LA and NYC) share her beliefs about the sanctity of life, personal responibility, and freedom from excessive government.

Just to address the main thesis of this post, Rep. Bachmann's statements are in fact perfectly logical. Her ideas on abortion and healthcare both stem from the principle of the sanctity of human life from coneption to natura death. The drafters of the Constitution knew that without the "right to life..." the country (and society in general) will not survive.

You are so busy heaping vituperation (man are you good at it!) on Michele Bachman that you neglect to tell the reader what she actually said. A reader unacquainted with her statement on Hannity (and wherever else she may have made it) would wonder after reading this article what she said that could get your dander up so badly. This article and the comments (except Megan's) demonstrate so well the left's favorite tactic. Respond to any charge with personal attacks on the one who made it. Heap ridicule upon ridicule. In other words convince the reader she doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. Then you won't have to refute her arguably quite valid claims. Shame on you NARAL.

The “deliciously hypocritical” one in all of this is you Ms. Shipp. When Michele Bachmann said “under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions,” she was referring to “end-of-life” counseling, healthcare rationing, and government bureaucrats deciding which treatments are worth administering to an individual patient.

In regards to the last point I mentioned above, the choice of abortion does not constitute any sort of health “treatment” because pregnancy is not a disease or a disorder, and it is not “administer[ed] to an individual patient” because it involves the killing of another genetically distinct human person.

If you are all about “choice” shouldn’t you support Michele Bachmann in her stance against a government run health scheme that would take all sorts of “choices” out of medicine, especially by subsidizing the killing of millions of unborn women with no “choice” at all?

What you fail to realize is that the abortion movement epitomizes “delicious hypocrisy” and that government subsidized abortion epitomizes a lack of bodily control. You say you advocate “choice” and “personal control over one’s body” yet you push for taxpayer funded mass slaughter of 1.2 – 1.5 million children a year in this country, none of whom would get any say in the fate of their bodies.

In only the rarest of cases does a woman who becomes pregnant not have a “choice” in the matter, yet under this government run “health” plan millions of unborn children would get no choice at all. You slander Michele Bachmann in such a poorly written, unprofessional fashion not because what she’s saying is hypocritical but because throughout her political career she has forced people like you to open your eyes, take your fingers out of your ears, stop chanting “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you,” snap out of your post-abortive feminist tantrum, and face the facts: abortion kills children!

Michele Bachmann is a prime example of the hypocrisy I have been exposing lately.

I have not said it on here, but I have said it on my personal blog: conservatives are not for less government in people's lives. They are for more government control of women's lives.

Since 1980, the conservatives have talked a good talk about less government. But, as I found out, the less government talk coming from conservatives is just lip service to get votes.

The only people who support less government in our lives are us, the Nancy Pelosi liberals. We support less government in women's lives by opposing anti-choice laws and by supporting laws that expand women's rights, such as the FOCA or the Equal Rights Amendment. Conservatives have opposed women's rights since 1965.

It is the kind of anti-choice laws that the conservatives support that has led to the deaths of millions of American women since July 4, 1776.

The Augusta Chronicle shares the same kind of hypocrisy that Michele Bachmann does. That is why I will expose the hypocrisy right here at home in the autumn.