'Health' of the Mother

Consideration of the health of the mother is the law of the land and the view of the majority. McCain's position to the contrary, expressed with finger quotes around "health" as if it's some bogus issue, will further alienate most voters.

I am really disillusioned by some of these comments. We all had access to a free education yet so many of you sound extremely uneducated, ignorant, and racist. First, Barack Obama is a Christian and the references to him as "Hussein" are fear mongering. exactly what Bush practices and Hitler before him. Second, do a little research on abortion laws before spewing your ignorance on us all. Statistics show crime went down 16 years after Roe vs Wade. Sixteen is the time most teens begin their lifes of crime. Not a coincidence. If you are against abortion, don't have one. Third, we need to vote for the candidate that will be best for our country . If you vote only for a pro-lifer you get the economic situation we are in today. Let's not be so simple minded.

Health of the mother?? What about health of the baby??? The hypocrisy is just sickening. I was a pro-choice as the next person until I got pregnant; the second I saw the baby's heartbeat at 9 DAYS, I couldn't believe anyone could kill their child. Rape/incest cases, MAYBE. But in any case--that child didn't choose to be conceived. Women need to take responsibility for the actions, even if they have they unintended results. GROW UP. I don't blame McCain one iota for the air quotes. "Health" of the mother, except in rare instances, is too subjective and frankly, a pretty lame rationalization for women who don't have the moral fibre to confront the choices they've made.

seems like america became a murders, because everybody is with the abortion. they don't care to kill a baby that is very helpless, and innocent. i guess the later is that women going out to have a good time, they get pregnant, and then they going for abortion, and the plan for obama is to take the money tout of the tax payers to perform those abortions. of course he is a moslin, and he does not care about the killing.

Seventy five percent of American Catholics actively practice birth control, despite what the Church teaches. This does not make them bad Catholics. It makes them good Catholics who disagree with the Church on this issue.

In 20 years as a doctor I don't think I have ever had one woman who requested abortion do so without crying. To think that women make this decision casually or without a conscience is ridiculous.

And I have seen some tragic outcomes when women who needed abortions for medical reasons refused to get them for religious reasons. Very sad. Life is not all black and white. We need to be able to distinguish subtle shades of gray and therefore make informed decisions in our lives, rather than desperately clinging to our opinions regardless of reality.

Murders are those that shoot and kill people on the street. Not those that make decisions within their legal rights. If someone has to make the decision to have an abortion, it is usually not something that they want to consider or want to do. America was founded on freedom; freedom to have the right to choose. Saying you want that choice, does not make you a murderer and does not mean you are pro-abortion -- what it does is that you are pro the right to chose. It means you are pro a woman's right to decide what happens to her body and what happens in her life.

The very first thing OBAMA needs to do is force insurance companies to pay for birth control. They pay for Viagra!

I do not believe in abortion for the sole purpose of birth control. I do however, believe that I have no right to tell anyone what to do with their own bodies.

Any pro-lifer that is so worried about the unborn, why can't they go help the ones that are already here that are neglected, abused, and not wanted? Take in a 10 year old rape victim. Take in a 6 month old with HIV. They are already here. They need your help.

I was told at 24 weeks that my baby had no brain. Only a brain stem. Her heart was beating, which meant that she could survive for an undetermined amount of time. I made the most difficult choice in my life. I WANTED to bury my daughter, but due to these pro-life idiots and they're delusion that they know everything and have the right to interfere, I was not allowed by the State. I had to go to an abortion clinic and be treated like an animal.

I support Choice but question the reasons for the choice. I don't ever want women to have to go back to the days of back-room abortions but I would like to have faith that women are really making a choice that affects their health and not just for convenience. Late term abortions should never be performed unless it's absolutely a matter of life or death because, after all, it is death for a usually viable birth.

this woman that has her uterous like grapes, is very stupid, and ignorant. what senator mccain had to do with her pregnancy? whaT HAPPENED WAS THAT MAY BE SHE TRAYED TO ABORT THE BABY, and now she is blaming senator mccain, for what she was goinf through.

I would very much be interested in knowing at what point of the pregnancy does the fetus start to have appreciable brain activity. I am no expert by any means, but that would seem to be a fairly logical place to start considering the fetus "human".

To have a live birth abortion performed a day or so before delivery is permissible if the mother to be has a cold, a hang nail, a litle down in the dumps, or any other "health" issue. "Health of the mother" is jut a code name for "anything goes". Trust me. I have witnessed enough of these so called "health issue" abortions.