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I was quite baffled and very offended by your recent article “Campaign uses power of prayer to end abortion” [Sept. 28] and have I been confused all along about the mission of The City Paper? I thought its mission was cutting-edge coverage of city business and politics, not puff pieces on fringe elements of the anti-abortion protest movement.
How do you justify the coverage given to this group? And, how do you maintain credibility as a journalist while not completely de-bunking this movement's completely mistaken claim that "government money" is ever used to fund abortions? It is not.
Furthermore, under the Bush administration, overseas agencies that are recipients of U.S. Aid lost funding if they provided family planning information to the people they serve. As for the kind-and-gentle "contract" you were so accommodating as to put in a special sidebar, I live in an apartment complex right by the clinic and I have seen graphic posters of fetuses deployed by the protesters at least once.
And, by the way, as I veer my car around these people, it is not a look of "confusion" that you see on my face; it is anger.
Cathy Reed, 37211
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Good letter Cathy .
mistaken claim that "government money" is ever used to fund abortions? It is not.
Planned Parenthood, the bigest abortion mill in the country receives plenty of Government money spinner.
Dooley agreeing with you is another indication that you spew propaganda.
Good morning.
Verbal Cartoon
Meanwhile back at the funny farm, chiefpayne has disguised himself has a blank wall for people to read.
Not realizing that his master is the blanket wall, Dradon hikes his leg and saluted.
I didn't see this particular article. I have seen how these "protesters" operate.
I would never support them.
She sees a protestor's poster, "at least once". So, what? Look the other way.
Be more concerned of the gun nut who's lying in wait to shoot the Dr.s or bomb the place. Anti-abortion people are crazier than gun nuts and war mongers. They think Jesus is talking to them, directly. And to the old white man who called Planned Parenhood a "abortion mill"...it is not. The group provides an essential, necessary services to young women educating them on STD's, birth control, and counseling.
Planned Parenthood does operate abortion clinics.
Planned Parenthood does receive federal funds.
Ergo, federal funds "enable" the abortion clinics to operate.
Good morning, Nashville!
Did not read the article that the LTE refers to, so I can't comment. I do know one thing, the so-called "pro-life" crowd consists of the same folks who want to get government "off their backs". These self-described "anti-guv'mint" protesters do support the idea that politicians and government bureaucrats can tell American women what they can and cannot do with their own reproductive systems, That's the ultimate in governmental intrusion into personal privacy, but the "pro-life" zealots don't see it that way. Go figure.
The "pro-life" crowd usually supports the gun lobby and they approve of the death penalty; they condone and defend Israel's war crimes against the Palestinian refugees. They worship the human fetus as being "sacred", but once born, people can be killed for just cause, with umpunity...it's qute ludicrous.
I'm waiting for the women to weigh in.
Here's a idea for a pro-life protest sign:
Get Guv'mint Off My Back & Into My Uterus!:
What do you think?
Pretty good, Loner.
Yes, this is primarily a women's issue, D7, I agree on that essential point.
Typo: I don't know how that colon (:) got in there, after the exclamation point (!). As we all know, the guv'mint is already up our colons.
Thanks, house..wait til my meds kick in.
No need to wait until 4:20...
Have you seen the movie(documentary) called "Super High Me", Loner?
"They worship the human fetus as being "sacred", but once born, people can be killed for just cause, with umpunity...it's qute ludicrous."
I think you're starting to understand. It is ok to kill someone for "just cause". It's just that some people don't think being unwanted is just cause.
D7 said "They think Jesus is talking to them, directly". No, Jesus is not talking directly to anti abortion people. Their own conscience is speaking to them. Of course, you don't have one, so you would not understand. Stop bashing chrisians. It's too complicated for you to understand.
I just don't understand why these people think they have the right to stick their noses
into the reproductive organs of others.
No, House, but I'll google it.
Dragon, I considered putting the phrase (just cause) in quotation marks when I wrote that and now I wish that I had. "Just cause" is in the eye of the beholder. "Justice" is a very subjective concept; one person's "atrocity" is another person's "justified retribution". US Christians supported Israel's slaughter in Gaza but reject the Goldstone Report...the concept of a "just cause" is a very dangerous notion. The noble ends seldom justify the horrific means.
Dragon, as a man, it's easy for you to talk like that; but, if males bore the children, abortion would never have been illegal, in fact, it would be considered virtuous to have an abortion. Women on the anti-choice side have been duped by their male overlords.
By: dargent7 on 10/1/09 at 8:19
I'm waiting for the women to weigh in.
I see that no women have weigh in on this so far.
Women keep their weight confidential.
Dragon, the Arabs of Palestine are also "unwanted"; some Americans don't think being unwanted is just cause for confining the Arabs of Palestine in squalid refugee camps, for sixty years and occasionally slaughtering several hundred of them, when a few renegades try to resist the inhumane and brutal oppression. Where's the "just cause" in all that?
Loner: Thanks for picking up on my suble "joke". I think Cpt. "N" got it too.
The only "woman" to weigh in was that sparkler of personality and stallward of Christianity, the honorable SidVicious.
Were's she's totally ignorant is, many if not all abortion Dr. killers are deeply religious in the true Christian doctrine. And they DO think Jesus talks and walks with them.
But Sid just lashes out, name calling, directed at any capricious target.
If she knew how to read a post, she'd realize I was supporting "woman's right's". But logic over viceral, knee-jerk emotional reaction is too much of a stretch for Aunt Sid "V".
Oh goodie, abortion, this should go at least 6 pages today.
Here's my view: I would hope the decision, which is not as whimsical as some here would like to think it might be, should be mutually agreed by the mother and father.
But when it all comes down to it, the woman has the final say, it's her body.
On a similar note, have you seen the "right to life" license plates that say Choose Life? Pro choice...who knew? LOL
I forgot about sid being female. My bad.
Verbal Cartoon
it is well after 2012 and sid find herself in Heaven.
Her excitement does not last long. She finds that Heaven is full of LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!!!
Geeezzz... I used to like to think that NO ONE was FOR abortion.
I guess any reasonable person understands the reality of the issue; but to not be sickened by the fact that many irresponsible people use it regularly as ex post facto birth control is just a rationalization of child murder.
I guess liberals support it because their life-view is that human beings are a plague on the earth and society; so they should be minimized. Kill it before it grows... and then snuff grandma when the crystal in her palm turns black. Science vs God again, I guess... or scientists playing God.
Ben, this something that is strictly the business of the woman, her doctor and her God. Why bring the guv'mint into it?
BenDover comes in stroking his guns and denouncing abortion. This is his feminine side speaking.
Loner, can the same priciple be extended to issues other than abortion? For example, assisted suicide?
Perhaps, Dragon.
So, with the camel's nose appearing under the tent, the government should not require or prevent any doctor's treatment (i.e, stuff currently included in the healthcare reform packages).
By: Dragon on 10/1/09 at 10:22
So, with the camel's nose appearing under the tent,
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More rightwing radio talk cliche.
pain, could you please expound on noses near reproductive organs?
Invitation only, slacker.
"Geeezzz... I used to like to think that NO ONE was FOR abortion."
Poor old Ben, this is about choice. Attempting to say that "Pro choice" is "Pro abortion" is absurd and desperate.
By: slacker on 10/1/09 at 10:26
pain, could you please expound on noses near reproductive organs?
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Dragon thinks that a camel nose is a turn on.
That's Dragon, more impressed with Camel noses than Camel toes.
Why do you draw the line at birth loner? It's a perfectly viable human in there 1 minute before birth. One is legal to kill... the other is not?
I think it's between her an God to be sure. But as a society we have consequences to actions deemed by society to be inappropriate.
You think it's OK to snuff the little bugger before he sticks his head out; for the convienience of the mother... I think it's not OK.
I damn sure don't want any tax dollars going to fund the extermination of undesired babies... and I'm not unreasonable to have such a view.
pain, exactly, and no camels.
Actually, I think this LTE is more about Ms. Reeds road rage.
By: BenDover on 10/1/09 at 10:33
Why do you draw the line at birth loner? It's a perfectly viable human in there 1 minute before birth.
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1 minute before birth.
Ben what kind of asinine question is that? Have you been sniffing gun power with meth?
It's a fact nemo... where do you draw the line?
"Why do you draw the line at birth loner? It's a perfectly viable human in there 1 minute before birth. One is legal to kill... the other is not?
Absurd, but you're batting 1000 today so why not.
"I think it's between her an God to be sure. But as a society we have consequences to actions deemed by society to be inappropriate."
Deemed by a vocal minority. Roe v Wade was 1970, Washington hasn't been burned down...at least not since the War of 1812...
"You think it's OK to snuff the little bugger before he sticks his head out; for the convienience of the mother... I think it's not OK.
Three for three in absurdity.
"I damn sure don't want any tax dollars going to fund the extermination of undesired babies... and I'm not unreasonable to have such a view."
No, you also don't want any tax dollars going to help all those "unwanted" children once they're born. I get the feeling you would have no problem with sterilization, though. Given your views, that's not unreasonable.
ok, i'm here for my weigh in! (although i'm sure everyone already knows my opinion on this one)
Nazix2: You've obviously been to either Jenny Craig or on NutriSystems...your "weight" is minimal.
I see the baby killers are out in force today :).
What a cowardly statement id. I'm shocked!!
dargent, let me eat lunch and i'll weigh in in a BIG way. LOL!
Ben, this something that is strictly the business of the woman, her doctor and her God. Why bring the guv'mint into it? A question asked by Loner and it's a good question. and to Cathy who said: "I live in an apartment complex right by the clinic and I have seen graphic posters of fetuses deployed by the protesters at least once". Cathy if seeing the truth - a picture of a "fetus" aka baby/humanbeing is so offensive to you, just move! You live in America; ;you have the right to move!
Wow, I agree with Sid...is there a meteor about to hit Earth??