Comments on: Amherst pro-choice rally protests local Birthright chapter

By: JuJubean

JuJubean — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:04:32 +0000

Dan
“men get off easily” – ok, so how bout instead of killing the human that had NOTHING to do with the pregnancy, we work towards legislation that increases responsibility of males who sire children.

How bout we take responsibility for these so called “accidents” – sex isnt an accident… i mean, i dont slip and fall and amazingly impregnate someone (that’d be quite a world huh?)

slipping on some ice is an accident, impregnating someone isnt simply an “accident” – and dont try to blame alcohol etc just as a DUI manslaughter charge for killing someone while intoxicated can just be called an “accident” – interesting parallel – DUI manslaughter = kills someone, drunk sex with pregnancy and abortion = kill somemone… hmmm

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:49:25 +0000

Michael Rohm,

You label non-emergency abortion as “vanity surgery for convenience.” I believe the decision of whether or not to begin a family is a bit more important than a decision of vanity, considering the time and resources required to raise a healthy family.

Sometimes, accidents happen. Most unwanted pregnancies are not the result of carelessness or negligence or stupidity. Men get off easily in this situation. I know that because I am a man. Put yourself in a woman’s shoes. Then you’ll understand.

Dan

By: Michael Röhm (Foley)

Michael Röhm (Foley) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:20:28 +0000

The best one can say about this whole debacle is that the only thing to make much sense amidst the protesters is the sign offering a sale on ink and toner. Perhaps I will get some now that I see it is for sale.

Abortion on demand is selfish and self-serving, and there’s no good reason why anyone’s tax dollars should go to support elective surgery that has no health benefit.

It is immoral to expect a man or woman to pay for something that he or she cannot support due to moral reasons, beliefs, etc.

If you want one for convenience (not due to rape, incest, health risk to the mother, etc.), then pay for it yourself. Abortion for convenience is not “health care,” it is vanity surgery for convenience.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:56:03 +0000

In response to Ben. You’re right. That was some bad wording. What I meant was that they provide services like adoption couseling, which they call abortion alternatives. I understood their services to be less alternatives than as a seperate category entirely. I think I was trying too hard to be objective, and ended up epicly failing. I will be more cautious in the future, and I apologize if a judgement was implied through that wording.

By: ralph reed

ralph reed — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:25:47 +0000

My then bride-to-be, Dana Gabriela Rusu, went to a crisis pregnancy counselling center in Dundalk, Maryland, outside Baltimore upon finding out she was pregnant, simultaneously going to abortion procedure appointments and backing out for months in 2000, eventually giving birth to our first son Ciprian
(http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=7misyfu.clqfdydu&x=0&h=1&y=-5w6029&localeid=en_US), making her tres schizo.

By: Maya

Maya — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:02:46 +0000

http://socialistworker.org/2009/09/30/the-anti-choice-deception

By: Gary L

Gary L — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:41:00 +0000

For the record, places like Planned Parenthood and Tapestry Health advise women of ALL their options and do not have an agenda besides providing women with a full range of safe reproductive choices. If you decide you want an abortion, they can provide (more often refer you to someone who can) it. If you decide you don’t want to terminate a pregnancy, they can refer you to prenatal care and other services.

The difference with places like Birthright is that they do NOT present abortion, which 1 in 3 women will have in their lifetime in the US, as an option. Instead of providing the tools and information to assist women in making the choice of whether to terminate a pregnancy or carry it to term, their goal is to influence (and in many cases, to intimidate).

They don’t want women to have the right to choose, they want to make that choice for them. And the fact that they receive funding while abortion clinics do not means that poor women who cannot afford safe abortions will have illegal abortions, and many will die, as tens of thousands around the world do each year. Not fetuses, actual human beings who we have funerals for.

By: Alisa

Alisa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:36:02 +0000

Note to protesters: I talked with many people shopping on Amherst 20% off Greeting Card day (the day of the protest). All were impressed with your volume. Unfortunately, more than half had no idea *what* you were shouting, and the rest — clued in by the Stupak sign(s) and the few words they could pick out — had no idea why you were in that location…

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:40:20 +0000

Why “so-called abortion alternatives”? What is “so-called” about them? The abortion industry wants women to kill their children and Birthright wants to offer an alternative. I don’t get why it’s a “so-called abortion alternative”.

These protestors are really wacky. It’s not enough to have a baby killing industry in this country. So long as there is someone, somewhere, who might advise women on the alternative, someone is going to be pissed off.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:07:14 +0000

Isn’t it illegal to protest outside a women’s health clinic?

How is this any different from the other side doing the same thing outside an abortion clinic????