'Health' of the Mother

Isn't it interesting that a fetus can have gender identity, male or female, but not be itentified as a human being. Does it really fall into the catagory of a tumor?

This is a very poorly written article, clearly intended to make McCain look bad and drive swing female voters to Obama. Yes, McCain could have taken more tiime to explain the "health" exception a little better. But he is absolutely right that the "health" exception, especially in the case of partial birth abortion, was being used for any and every reason. If a woman feels "bad" about having the baby, her doctor (especially if he's very pro-abortion) can simply check off the "health" exception and that would be that. Look at it a different way....what if the slavery issue was still going today and we had agreement that it could be banned except in cases of "well-being" of the slave owner???? What if the slave owner could simply say that by losing his slave to abolition it would affect his "health" or prosperity.....? Would that sound rational? John McCain certainly is not asking to put pregnant women with GENUIUNE health risks in physical danger. He was only addressing the bogus and vague definition of health. Bottom line: PLEASE REMEMBER WE'RE DEALING WITH THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING HERE. Someone who's a little "down" because the father doesn't want the baby, shouldn't qualify for a "health" exception thus okaying the killing of human life, which is what a baby in the womb is.
"You knitted me together in my mother's womb" --King David (Psalm 139)

There are a couple of problems - first the 1.4% is from 2003, not 2004. And the second problem is that there are *no* national reporting laws regarding the number of abortions done. The 1.4% came from the states that reported, 43 in all. Also, no reports came private practicing physicians. Any privately practicing physician does not have to contribute to these statistics. And finally, if you crossed state lines to get that abortion, you are also not included in the stats. And the third problem is this - a quote from wiki, based on the CDC's website:

"Because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual study on abortion statistics does not calculate the exact gestational age for abortions performed past the 20th week, there is no exact data for the number of abortions performed after viability."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion

Changes things a bit, doesn't it? Since there are no federal reporting laws, a good portion of these abortions are done and no one has to know about it. And *that* is how it gets abused. You can have a late term abortion if you get migraines, your sciatic nerve hurts, or you have carpal tunnel. A doctor just has to say so and it's done. Doesn't matter what part of the women's health may be in danger, legitimate or not, very few doctors have to answer to anyone about it.

Where did your facts come from?

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5511a1.htm
Table 6 at the bottom.
Read the fine print.

Why am I the first commenter on so many of these threads?

Oh, well. I'm ducking out of here before the flamethrower festival starts.

Just remember, people - furious screaming never solved a problem...

What if a pregnancy is the end result of a rape. According to Mcain/Palin that person who may be in perfect health ,would be forced to take the pregnancy to term. Women fought the right to vote,equal opportunity and to choose for themselves. Mcain/Palin what a dangerous combination to be in the White House .

McCain is pro-birth. He isn't the least bit concerned with womens health in any way, shape or form. Women shoudl NOT have any right to decide to have an abortion for any reason. McCain votes against birth control access, medically accurate sex education and abortion. McCain in the White House would be even worse than Bush.

Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!! He admitted to Joe the Plumber than he wanted to spread the wealth! He said that he wanted to make everyone equal! Is America ready for Socialism? The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, said today that he is glad to see the end to capitalism in America!! Are you glad?????
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Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

The unborn do suffer in an abortion. Haven't you seen the videos where the children are pulled apart limb by limb? It's horrible! Abortion = murder. Period. Life begins at conception, and these poor children cannot speak for themselves. It is a very unfortunate situation. Everyone has the right to life - it is not up to us to determine who lives and who dies.

It is NEVER NECESSARY TO SAVE A MOTHER'S LIFE!! EVER!!!

Women are the real victim of abortion. I've not met a woman who did not regret her abortion(s). Let's face it, majority of abortion performed is because it's unplanned pregnancy or because the fetus has Downs Syndrome. If a woman doesn't want to give birth then don't have sex! Who gave us the right to murder our not so perfect babies (Downs Syndrome). Should we allow teenage mothers to leave their newborns in the dumpster? We punish these mothers for throwing their newborns in the trash, or for killing their children, so then why do we make it legal for mothers to kill their alive, yet unborn babies? we care so much about animal rights but we don't afford the same kind of justice for the unborn. it's disgusting what kind of society we've become.