Libsmasher
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John McCain is against nearly everything women hold dear
And I assume you're in a position to tell us what it is women hold dear?
Well I have a wife, a mother, grandmothers, aunts & whole lot of other rather outspoken women in my family as well as two daughters of my own.
My sister-in-law is a former President of NOW (National Organization of Women)
There will always be some differing views... but I think I can form a fairly informed opinion from all I've been told by women. Let's face it Republicans are not well known for their support of women's rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHzn2pNzijw
[CO]Well I have a wife, a mother, grandmothers, aunts & whole lot of other rather outspoken women in my family as well as two daughters of my own.
My sister-in-law is a former President of NOW (National Organization of Women)
There will always be some differing views... but I think I can form a fairly informed opinion from all I've been told by women. Let's face it Republicans are not well known for their support of women's rights.
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Republicans are not well known for their support of women's rights.
Boy am I glad that I don't need the government to allow me to do what I want as a woman. I have what it takes all by myself, thanks anyway.
What right were you denied by Republicans?
He thinks republicans will stop women from being able to legally kill their offspring and they will be reduced to coat hangers and back alleys to do it.
I think that is considered a scare tactic, but then again I think the rule is, its only a scare tactic if its something said truth or not by a republican. I can’t always keep up with the political rules.
Were you alive before Roe v Wade? It was a time of coat hangers, the Coca Cola douche, and some women drinking or doing just about anything to induce a miscarriage. Many died as a result.
It was the dark ages, a time the Republican party wants to take us back too. You don't want an abortion don't have one, but don't you dare attempt to tell one of my female loved ones what she can do with her own body. It's none of your business.
Were you alive before Roe v Wade? It was a time of coat hangers, the Coca Cola douche, and some women drinking or doing just about anything to induce a miscarriage. Many died as a result.
It was the dark ages, a time the Republican party wants to take us back too. You don't want an abortion don't have one, but don't you dare attempt to tell one of my female loved ones what she can do with her own body. It's none of your business.
The "coat hanger" thing is a myth, but if people get harmed breaking the law - that's obviously on them. And imagine the transcendental chutzpah of supporters of the Abortion Holocaust talking about "the dark ages".........
Here The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger” — which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth. In my years in New York, several women arrived with a hanger still in place. Whoever put it in — perhaps the patient herself — found it trapped in the cervix and could not remove it.
We did not have ultrasound, CT scans or any of the now accepted radiology techniques. The woman was placed under anesthesia, and as we removed the metal piece we held our breath, because we could not tell whether the hanger had gone through the uterus into the abdominal cavity. Fortunately, in the cases I saw, it had not.
However, not simply coat hangers were used.
Almost any implement you can imagine had been and was used to start an abortion — darning needles, crochet hooks, cut-glass salt shakers, soda bottles, sometimes intact, sometimes with the top broken off.
Another method that I did not encounter, but heard about from colleagues in other hospitals, was a soap solution forced through the cervical canal with a syringe. This could cause almost immediate death if a bubble in the solution entered a blood vessel and was transported to the heart.
The worst case I saw, and one I hope no one else will ever have to face, was that of a nurse who was admitted with what looked like a partly delivered umbilical cord. Yet as soon as we examined her, we realized that what we thought was the cord was in fact part of her intestine, which had been hooked and torn by whatever implement had been used in the abortion. It took six hours of surgery to remove the infected uterus and ovaries and repair the part of the bowel that was still functional.
BS, where did that "myth" crap come from some anti abortion site?
Here is a physician recalling the days before Roe v Wade:
Those that would oppose a woman's right to choose care more about an embryo than the living breathing woman herself. They look at women as nothing more than vessels carrying a political issue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/views/03essa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
After reading the thread responses, I'm still kind of wondering what Hillary supporters supporting McCain has to do with abortion. Oh well, I guess my acreen name explains my lack of understanding.
Maybe living in Mississippi for over thirty years has given me a skewed perspective. As far as I'm concerned, the big issue in the campaign is the one all the talking heads avoid talking seriously about, race. Obama has as much chance of winning the election as a Sunni arab had of winning the presidency of post-Saddam Iraq.
I've been convinced for some time that in a democracy (ok, democratic republic), we get the leaders we deserve. If I'm right, that really should put the fear of God in us.