Why American decided abortion should be legal

[Truthmatters]

The abortion that Mitt doesn't talk about anymore - War Room - Salon.com




In a 1994 Senate debate with Ted Kennedy, Mitt Romney revealed a startling chapter from his past: A close relative had died many years earlier in a botched illegal abortion, shaping Romney's stance in favor of safe and legal access to abortion for all women. But in the many years since that revelation, even as Romney flipped his position and became an ardent opponent of legal abortion, the details of his young relative's story, including even her name, have never been reported.

The relative he was referring to back in '94, Salon has learned, was a Detroit woman named Ann Keenan. She was the sister of Romney's brother-in-law and died at the age of 21 in 1963, a full decade before Roe v. Wade. While much of what happened remains murky, an investigation by Salon has uncovered never-reported details about her life and death, including: how she died (an infection); that her grief-stricken parents asked for memorial donations to be made to Planned Parenthood; and that the family apparently wanted to keep the death quiet because Romney's politically ambitious father, George, was then governor of Michigan.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Only one American? Well that's hardly a consensus no?

 

[Truthmatters]

I see you like typos better than real discussions.

 

[whitehall]

The abortion that Mitt doesn't talk about anymore - War Room - Salon.com




In a 1994 Senate debate with Ted Kennedy, Mitt Romney revealed a startling chapter from his past: A close relative had died many years earlier in a botched illegal abortion, shaping Romney's stance in favor of safe and legal access to abortion for all women. But in the many years since that revelation, even as Romney flipped his position and became an ardent opponent of legal abortion, the details of his young relative's story, including even her name, have never been reported.

The relative he was referring to back in '94, Salon has learned, was a Detroit woman named Ann Keenan. She was the sister of Romney's brother-in-law and died at the age of 21 in 1963, a full decade before Roe v. Wade. While much of what happened remains murky, an investigation by Salon has uncovered never-reported details about her life and death, including: how she died (an infection); that her grief-stricken parents asked for memorial donations to be made to Planned Parenthood; and that the family apparently wanted to keep the death quiet because Romney's politically ambitious father, George, was then governor of Michigan.

Americans didn't decide to make abortion legal and neither did Mitt Romney or Teddy Kennedy. The Supreme Court found a "right to privacy" that didn't exist in the Constitution and parlayed that myth into the "right of a woman to hire someone to kill her unborn child".

 

[Truthmatters]

Abortion in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was legal for decades in the US before it was made illegal.

States were legalizing it when the scotus made their decision.

Read the history

 

[Truthmatters]

This beautiful young relative of Romneys should never have died.

 

[Truthmatters]

I wonder how the family feels about Romney backing away from his prochoice decision?

 

[whitehall]

How many beautiful children were terminated before they even had a chance at life because of the irrational fear of the mother that she would be ostracized from society?

 

[theHawk]

This beautiful young relative of Romneys should never have died.

No shit. She would had lived a much longer life if she didn't have an abortion.

 

[Synthaholic]

I can't wait until we get to talking about Mitt's canine error in judgement, killing his dog.

 

[Truthmatters]

This is why the country came to the conclusion they did about legal and safe abortions.

You will NEVER stop them and its better to have them safe and legal

 

[Mad Scientist]

Just because something is legal or decriminalized doesn't mean it should be encouraged. Marijuana is decriminalized in California but I never encouraged my kids to start smoking it, or anyone else for that matter.

Abortion may be legal but I would never encourage it. Many people feel this way.

 

[MikeGloster]

This beautiful young relative of Romneys should never have died.

Did she, at the age of twenty-one, make a choice to kill her baby, seek out someone to do the deed, and proceed ?

Did she have numerous chances to change her mind ?

Then, sorry! I feel sorry for her death, but she brought it on herself.

 

[California Girl]

This beautiful young relative of Romneys should never have died.

Should she have died if she was ugly?

 

[MikeGloster]

This is why the country came to the conclusion they did about legal and safe abortions.

You will NEVER stop them and its better to have them safe and legal

We will never stop bank robberies. So, by your logic, we should make them safe and legal,

 

[California Girl]

This is why the country came to the conclusion they did about legal and safe abortions.

You will NEVER stop them and its better to have them safe and legal

As long as I'm not paying for it, do what you want. Murder your unborn child. God can judge you.

 

[midcan5]

"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State." Edward Abbey

Abortion is the hypocrite's moral crutch, it requires nothing of the moralist, especially the male moralist, living, the child would get no support from them. As an abstraction, and as a control over another person, they cry crocodile tears. Bring all these children into the world and see how fast the hypocrites rise up and raise them and support them? Every few seconds a living breathing conscious child dies in the world of preventable causes and the moralists do not protest those deaths, in fact they hate the UN, an organization that tries to help these children. Did any of the so called pro-life people protest the bombing and killings in Iraq? Heck no, they are simply hypocrites.

Say what you like, it the living that count, you care not for the living child as your political philosophy attests to too often, but you really really care about a few cells. Life is a powerful force you needn't worry about it, in the end it is the pro-choice who are pro-life, you are simply pro-controlling another person's life. Manage your own life and keep out of other's people's lives, this is still a free country in spite of religion based politics. Judge yourself.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/healt...-a-heartbeat-is-detectable-4.html#post3814184


"In the 1950s, about a million illegal abortions a year were performed in the U.S., and over a thousand women died each year as a result. Women who were victims of botched or unsanitary abortions came in desperation to hospital emergency wards, where some died of widespread abdominal infections. Many women who recovered from such infections found themselves sterile or chronically and painfully ill. The enormous emotional stress often lasted a long time." HISTORY OF ABORTION


"Another error is the moment-of-conception fallacy. The joining of a human egg and sperm defines a new and unique human genotype. It does not produce any human hopes and fears and memories or anything else of moral importance implied by the term human. The newly fertilized egg may have the potential for a fully human existence, but that potential was there even before fertilization. The same can be said of all the fertilizations that might have been. The penetration of that egg by one sperm meant an early death for millions of competing sperm. It destroyed all hope for those millions of other unique human genotypes.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened. In reality, the "moment" is a matter of some hours of complex activity. There are elaborate biochemical interactions between the sperm and various layers of the egg membrane. The sperm gradually breaks up, and only its nucleus is established in the egg. Then both egg and sperm nuclei initiate radical changes before the fusion of the two nuclei. Many of the developmental events following this fusion were predetermined during the production of the egg. Genes provided by the sperm do not have discernible effects until embryonic development is well under way. A strictly biological definition of humanity would have to specify some point in this elaborate program at which the egg and sperm have suddenly been endowed with a single human life." From The Pony Fish's Glow and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature, by George C. William.


Boston Review — Judith Jarvis Thomson
Top 10 Anti-Abortion Myths - Top 10 Myths About Abortion
Why Francis Beckwith


When the so called pro life people support living people I'll take them serious, till then they remain hypocrites and two faced moralists.

 

[Truthmatters]

This is why the country came to the conclusion they did about legal and safe abortions.

You will NEVER stop them and its better to have them safe and legal

As long as I'm not paying for it, do what you want. Murder your unborn child. God can judge you.

Then dont have one.

You dont pay so why pretend you do?

 

[MeBelle]

I wonder how the family feels about Romney backing away from his prochoice decision?

If one listens to what Romney said, he stated his personal belief was against abortion but he wasn't going to ram his person believes down everyone else's throat.

What year did the pill become legal??

 

[Truthmatters]

He flipped flopped on the issue for political purposes