The Issue of Abortion

Today, some improved and modern group homes exist for orphans, however, foster care is considered to be a better option for children.

which makes your entire argument irrelevant.....you say its better to kill them than abuse them when all you really have to do is stop abusing them.......now don't you feel foolish for not having thought of that?.......
 
As Obama noted they continually put forward old, tired, worn out, failed ideas. Not much changes.

about what I would expect from the man who voted to allow doctors till kill children who were accidentally allowed to be born during an botched abortion.......that's progressives for you......progressing from killing the unborn to killing the born......
 
. You eligibility for pension has to do with your birthday, not when you came into existence....

Why a birthday? What's so special about a birthday?

The worth of life is not for you to decide....especially someone else's life.

My comment was, "And, of course, we still have that elephant in the room which is what is the life of the fetus worth vis-a-vis the mother's health."

Why can't I get a straight answer from you or any of the other anti-abortionists? All I hear is a pregnant woman should have the right to abort for medical reasons. So, what medical reasons would justify the right for a woman with a defective body to kill an innocent human being, assuming a fetus is a human being?

Has no one thought about that? Is the reason no one answers because it's all a lie and women wouldn't be allowed to abort regardless of any medical reason? Or is the reason persons pretending to stand tall for the value of life are afraid to show they are, in reality, uber-hypocrites if they answered the loss of a foot or toe or diminished eye sight or the loss of a kidney?

Most peculiar. :confused:
 
Well Apple....just so we're on the same page, does this about cover your beliefs?



  • Women need to control their reproduction better, now that so many are
  • workers as well as wives and mothers
  • The wealthy could get abortions, despite the law
  • The poor are getting abortions anyway; the law was unenforceable
  • The poor are frequently being harmed by the untrained and "quacks"
  • Children should be planned and wanted
  • Unborn life was unconscious, while born women were conscious
  • Morality is a personal matter
 
which makes your entire argument irrelevant.....you say its better to kill them than abuse them when all you really have to do is stop abusing them.......now don't you feel foolish for not having thought of that?.......

You really are a Republican, aren't you? Offering the same old, tired, worn out ideas. Ideas that have been tried and failed but, hey, let's do the same thing again.

You do know the definition of insanity, don't you? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

That's why I posted excerpts dealing with different countries. Abuse is systemic in orphanages. That has been documented in countries around the world and one would have to be either ignorant of the happenings or a sick individual to suggest we return to the same practice while adding the millions of children abortion spares each year.
 
about what I would expect from the man who voted to allow doctors till kill children who were accidentally allowed to be born during an botched abortion.......that's progressives for you......progressing from killing the unborn to killing the born......

I don't suppose you have any further info on that. Perhaps a link? An account of what exactly takes place that would result in an abortion resulting in a birth?
 
At some future time, yes, they may increase. They may also not increase. Then, again, they may increase and at a certain point spontaneously abort or miscarry and the cause is usually unknown. This is something one should value on par with a woman?



You asked for it. :)

AUSTRALIA: St. Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong, Victoria during the 1950s.
At this Australian institution the boys lined up for their daily showers naked in serried files. One former resident told an Oral History Project researcher of the stunned look of a new superintendent when he saw the boys preparing for showers. A short time later, dressing gowns were purchased for each boy. Such an intrusive attitude was not unique to one type of institution; it was common across the residential care world. Jane Rose referred to the regular inspections after daily or weekly showers at a contemporary Barnardo’s Home: ‘After showers the boys lined up naked with their hands about their heads for the inspection of the duty officer’
http://www.nospank.net/coldrey.htm

CANADA: In 1992, a former Canadian Christian Brother was convicted for the following offence: ‘Brother Recker was guilty of assault for flicking the end of a wet towel into a boy’s naked buttock...on several occasions Recker snapped his naked buttock so hard that blood was drawn.’

An atmosphere of severity and widespread physical abuse combined with a tradition of regular enforced periods of nudity all encouraged sexual abuse of inmates. The evidence for the abuse is irrefutable.

The Christian Brothers were part of this care world, but a distinctive part. Moreover, there was a caring side in all these homes. They provided at a basic level for the children’s education and maintenance at a time when society generally did not care much what happened to young people who were at-risk. State resources provided for them were low and intended to provide only a modest standard of living approximate to that of the lowest levels of the working class from which most of the children came.
http://www.nospank.net/coldrey.htm

Of course we can't leave out the underlying reason behind orphanages. "To give such a woman who has fallen into sin and is desirous of escaping from its practice and degradation, an opportunity of hiding her shame by receiving her infant and thus removing the evidence of her disgrace."

Let's do the moral thing and institutionalize and abuse the little bastard.

MEXICO: 10News investigators have uncovered allegations of rape, torture and possible trafficking of children at an orphanage………10News got a hold of this story because of a little girl’s cry for help. The girl said a man who was supposed to be taking care of her molested her.

10News investigators obtained tax returns for International Children’s Care. The most recent return from 2005 showed the charity took in $4.6 million for Oasis and other orphanages in places like Congo, Thailand and Ukraine. Many of the orphanages are unregulated or have minimal oversight.
http://www.10news.com/news/10425187/detail.html

And then we have the UNITED STATES: $660,000,000 Clergy Abuse settlement - Los Angeles, CA:
Irwin Zalkin was one of the lead trial lawyers and part of the trial team prepared to commence a 14 victim trial against the Archbishop of Los Angeles on the day a global settlement was reached in the amount of $660,000,000.

$198,500,000 Clergy Abuse settlement - San Diego, CA:
Irwin Zalkin was appointed Mediation Liaison Counsel by a U.S. Magistrate Judge on behalf of over 144 victims of sexual abuse against the Bishop of San Diego resulting in a nearly $200,000,000 settlement.

$100,000,000 Clergy Abuse settlement - Orange County, CA:
Irwin Zalkin was part of the team of lawyers representing survivors who negotiated the first $100,000,000 settlement in the country involving sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy.
http://www.sexualabuse-attorneys.com/Sexual_Abuse/Orphanages.aspx

Roger Dean Kiser is the author of the books "Orphan, A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse and Redemption," "American Orphan" and now his newest book titled "RUNAWAY, Life on the streets-The Lessons Learned."

Roger will never forget how he and about 300 other children were treated as though they were less than human while living at the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida during the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Even though the living conditions in orphanages are much better today than they were some years back. The fact remains that when these children one day leave the orphanage. When they do, they will forever be lacking in the emotional skills that it takes to stay in a loving relationship and/or raise a normal family.

These children, though fed clothed and housed in a decent manner do not realize that they are not getting the love and emotional support that they will need once they become adults. They do not even realize that these important elements are missing from their lives, because they have no idea what the words “love” and “affection” even mean.
Most do not even realize that they are unhappy. All they know is that they are not as “unhappy” as they were in their former abusive situation.

IMAGINE...a Spartan bedroom room. A bed, a closet and a window. The floor is beige linoleum and the walls are dull white. All is neat, organized, military and utilitarian. Everywhere is clean, spotless and antiseptic.

The bed appears a fastidiously made single bed. The closet reveals nothing. It is very empty, as the child owns nothing.
http://www.oocities.com/united_states_orphanages/

And then we have the following: "White House Boys" Sue State Over Abuse at Florida State Boys School. 2.06.2009. First Coast News.

BRUNSWICK, GA - Roger Kiser remembers it like it was yesterday. "Unless you were there. Unless you saw how out of control it was, nothing mattered, life didn't matter."Kiser was at the Florida Reform School for Boys, now known as the Arthur Dozier School, back in the late 1950s. He says at the school, there was a place called the "White House" where he was taken numerous times for beatings. "They beat you until you were bloody," says Kiser.

According to a class action lawsuit filed against the state, a number of others who went to the school have the same memories. Court records detail how during the beatings, employees placed, "monetary bets (on who) could draw blood from the boys first."

One boy remembers, "After the blood curdling screams of a boy stopped, one of the state employees was heard to state, 'I think he is dead.'"

"I have heard...out of 86 men I've talked to, I'd say there are 30 who did not see boys return after their beating," says Kiser.

More than 30 graves have been found near the school's property. The state is now investigating who is buried there.
YouTube - U.S. Children Raped + Beat, Mass Graves at Juvenile Reform Center, Florida 'White House Boys'

That last entry took place in the 1950s. Less than 10 years before the birth control pill came on the market. That was orphanages and people suggest we should encourage…no, enforce and insist… microscopic cells develop inside women who do not want a child and then send the resulting child to an orphanage because….well, because they feel that is the moral thing to do.

In case someone believes abuse and neglect were rare occurrences we have:
Orphanages became extremely important in the UNITED STATES during the nineteenth century. This era experienced a great deal of financial hardships and violence. The Civil War claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and diseases many more, orphaning children across the country. In many cases, parents did not posses the financial ability to adequately care for a child. As a result, hundreds of orphanages were established throughout the nation. These orphanages were responsible for providing children with shelter, food, clothing, and education.

As time progressed, it became commonly known that children in orphanages were subjected to abuse and neglect. As a result of the terrible conditions that were found in many UNITED STATES' orphanages, most of these institutions were closed down.

The United States began to focus on the foster care system in order to protect orphaned children. Today, some improved and modern group homes exist for orphans, however, foster care is considered to be a better option for children.
http://children-laws.laws.com/foster-care/orphanages/orphanages-overview

Australia. Canada. Mexico. United States. Same old, same old. Of course, it's not surprising the average Conservative/Republican favors outlawing abortion. As Obama noted they continually put forward old, tired, worn out, failed ideas. Not much changes.

I asked you for stats that would show that the aborted babies would have been ignored and/or abused.
Since you decided to equate 50 years ago, as being in the present, you have shown nothing; unless you're trying to say that the numbers presented are equal to the number aborted.
 
At some future time, yes, they may increase. They may also not increase. Then, again, they may increase and at a certain point spontaneously abort or miscarry and the cause is usually unknown. This is something one should value on par with a woman?



You asked for it. :)

AUSTRALIA: St. Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong, Victoria during the 1950s.
At this Australian institution the boys lined up for their daily showers naked in serried files. One former resident told an Oral History Project researcher of the stunned look of a new superintendent when he saw the boys preparing for showers. A short time later, dressing gowns were purchased for each boy. Such an intrusive attitude was not unique to one type of institution; it was common across the residential care world. Jane Rose referred to the regular inspections after daily or weekly showers at a contemporary Barnardo’s Home: ‘After showers the boys lined up naked with their hands about their heads for the inspection of the duty officer’
http://www.nospank.net/coldrey.htm

CANADA: In 1992, a former Canadian Christian Brother was convicted for the following offence: ‘Brother Recker was guilty of assault for flicking the end of a wet towel into a boy’s naked buttock...on several occasions Recker snapped his naked buttock so hard that blood was drawn.’

An atmosphere of severity and widespread physical abuse combined with a tradition of regular enforced periods of nudity all encouraged sexual abuse of inmates. The evidence for the abuse is irrefutable.

The Christian Brothers were part of this care world, but a distinctive part. Moreover, there was a caring side in all these homes. They provided at a basic level for the children’s education and maintenance at a time when society generally did not care much what happened to young people who were at-risk. State resources provided for them were low and intended to provide only a modest standard of living approximate to that of the lowest levels of the working class from which most of the children came.
http://www.nospank.net/coldrey.htm

Of course we can't leave out the underlying reason behind orphanages. "To give such a woman who has fallen into sin and is desirous of escaping from its practice and degradation, an opportunity of hiding her shame by receiving her infant and thus removing the evidence of her disgrace."

Let's do the moral thing and institutionalize and abuse the little bastard.

MEXICO: 10News investigators have uncovered allegations of rape, torture and possible trafficking of children at an orphanage………10News got a hold of this story because of a little girl’s cry for help. The girl said a man who was supposed to be taking care of her molested her.

10News investigators obtained tax returns for International Children’s Care. The most recent return from 2005 showed the charity took in $4.6 million for Oasis and other orphanages in places like Congo, Thailand and Ukraine. Many of the orphanages are unregulated or have minimal oversight.
http://www.10news.com/news/10425187/detail.html

And then we have the UNITED STATES: $660,000,000 Clergy Abuse settlement - Los Angeles, CA:
Irwin Zalkin was one of the lead trial lawyers and part of the trial team prepared to commence a 14 victim trial against the Archbishop of Los Angeles on the day a global settlement was reached in the amount of $660,000,000.

$198,500,000 Clergy Abuse settlement - San Diego, CA:
Irwin Zalkin was appointed Mediation Liaison Counsel by a U.S. Magistrate Judge on behalf of over 144 victims of sexual abuse against the Bishop of San Diego resulting in a nearly $200,000,000 settlement.

$100,000,000 Clergy Abuse settlement - Orange County, CA:
Irwin Zalkin was part of the team of lawyers representing survivors who negotiated the first $100,000,000 settlement in the country involving sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy.
http://www.sexualabuse-attorneys.com/Sexual_Abuse/Orphanages.aspx

Roger Dean Kiser is the author of the books "Orphan, A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse and Redemption," "American Orphan" and now his newest book titled "RUNAWAY, Life on the streets-The Lessons Learned."

Roger will never forget how he and about 300 other children were treated as though they were less than human while living at the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida during the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Even though the living conditions in orphanages are much better today than they were some years back. The fact remains that when these children one day leave the orphanage. When they do, they will forever be lacking in the emotional skills that it takes to stay in a loving relationship and/or raise a normal family.

These children, though fed clothed and housed in a decent manner do not realize that they are not getting the love and emotional support that they will need once they become adults. They do not even realize that these important elements are missing from their lives, because they have no idea what the words “love” and “affection” even mean.
Most do not even realize that they are unhappy. All they know is that they are not as “unhappy” as they were in their former abusive situation.

IMAGINE...a Spartan bedroom room. A bed, a closet and a window. The floor is beige linoleum and the walls are dull white. All is neat, organized, military and utilitarian. Everywhere is clean, spotless and antiseptic.

The bed appears a fastidiously made single bed. The closet reveals nothing. It is very empty, as the child owns nothing.
http://www.oocities.com/united_states_orphanages/

And then we have the following: "White House Boys" Sue State Over Abuse at Florida State Boys School. 2.06.2009. First Coast News.

BRUNSWICK, GA - Roger Kiser remembers it like it was yesterday. "Unless you were there. Unless you saw how out of control it was, nothing mattered, life didn't matter."Kiser was at the Florida Reform School for Boys, now known as the Arthur Dozier School, back in the late 1950s. He says at the school, there was a place called the "White House" where he was taken numerous times for beatings. "They beat you until you were bloody," says Kiser.

According to a class action lawsuit filed against the state, a number of others who went to the school have the same memories. Court records detail how during the beatings, employees placed, "monetary bets (on who) could draw blood from the boys first."

One boy remembers, "After the blood curdling screams of a boy stopped, one of the state employees was heard to state, 'I think he is dead.'"

"I have heard...out of 86 men I've talked to, I'd say there are 30 who did not see boys return after their beating," says Kiser.

More than 30 graves have been found near the school's property. The state is now investigating who is buried there.
YouTube - U.S. Children Raped + Beat, Mass Graves at Juvenile Reform Center, Florida 'White House Boys'

That last entry took place in the 1950s. Less than 10 years before the birth control pill came on the market. That was orphanages and people suggest we should encourage…no, enforce and insist… microscopic cells develop inside women who do not want a child and then send the resulting child to an orphanage because….well, because they feel that is the moral thing to do.

In case someone believes abuse and neglect were rare occurrences we have:
Orphanages became extremely important in the UNITED STATES during the nineteenth century. This era experienced a great deal of financial hardships and violence. The Civil War claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and diseases many more, orphaning children across the country. In many cases, parents did not posses the financial ability to adequately care for a child. As a result, hundreds of orphanages were established throughout the nation. These orphanages were responsible for providing children with shelter, food, clothing, and education.

As time progressed, it became commonly known that children in orphanages were subjected to abuse and neglect. As a result of the terrible conditions that were found in many UNITED STATES' orphanages, most of these institutions were closed down.

The United States began to focus on the foster care system in order to protect orphaned children. Today, some improved and modern group homes exist for orphans, however, foster care is considered to be a better option for children.
http://children-laws.laws.com/foster-care/orphanages/orphanages-overview

Australia. Canada. Mexico. United States. Same old, same old. Of course, it's not surprising the average Conservative/Republican favors outlawing abortion. As Obama noted they continually put forward old, tired, worn out, failed ideas. Not much changes.
Thats a long read....

So what it seems you are claiming is that abortion is a necessary procedure that we must accept out of respect for life.

Am I understanding your view?
 
Well Apple....just so we're on the same page, does this about cover your beliefs?

[*]Women need to control their reproduction better, now that so many are workers as well as wives and mothers?

Society needs to encourage both men and women to control unwanted reproduction. That can entail everything from public ads to better birth control procedures/medications.


[*]The wealthy could get abortions, despite the law?

In many cases, yes.

[*]The poor are getting abortions anyway; the law was unenforceable?

Absolutely not. The poor usually ended up either having a botched abortion or bringing a child into a hell hole and having to give it up to people who abused and neglected it.

[*]The poor are frequently being harmed by the untrained and "quacks"?

That definitely happened in the past.

[*]Children should be planned and wanted?

Absolutely!


[*]Unborn life was unconscious, while born women were conscious?

I wouldn't say that. An unconscious human being is still a human being.

[*]Morality is a personal matter?

Morality: "conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct."

It would depend on circumstances. For example, bestiality. One may say that is their own business, however, the animal can not give consent so bestiality is not a personal matter.

BTW, part way through reading this post I had to go back to check if it was directed to me even though it started out with "Well Apple". I think it was the lack of derogatory comments.

In all honesty I haven't discounted the post is from a troll posing as Bravo.
 
Why a birthday? What's so special about a birthday?

Nothing special about a birthday, pinhead....they could have made it 60 years after first grade...what difference does it make where the measurement starts? Its gotta start somewhere?

My comment was, "And, of course, we still have that elephant in the room which is what is the life of the fetus worth vis-a-vis the mother's health."

Why can't I get a straight answer from you or any of the other anti-abortionists? All I hear is a pregnant woman should have the right to abort for medical reasons. So, what medical reasons would justify the right for a woman with a defective body to kill an innocent human being, assuming a fetus is a human being?
You got a straight answer numerous times...NOW there are no reasons required, nothing.....others say "when the life of the mother is threatened"....


Has no one thought about that? Is the reason no one answers because it's all a lie and women wouldn't be allowed to abort regardless of any medical reason? Or is the reason persons pretending to stand tall for the value of life are afraid to show they are, in reality, uber-hypocrites if they answered the loss of a foot or toe or diminished eye sight or the loss of a kidney?
When mothers life is threatened has nothing to do with eyesight or loss of a toe....how does bearing a child cause the loss of a toe? If you're afraid the baby will fall out an crush her toe, just have the women move her feet farther apart, like she did to get into this position in the first place.
Most peculiar.
and I agree ...you are peculiar. :confused:
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I asked you for stats that would show that the aborted babies would have been ignored and/or abused.
Since you decided to equate 50 years ago, as being in the present, you have shown nothing; unless you're trying to say that the numbers presented are equal to the number aborted.

What makes you think they wouldn't be neglected/abused? What do you base your position on?
 
BTW, part way through reading this post I had to go back to check if it was directed to me even though it started out with "Well Apple". I think it was the lack of derogatory comments.

In all honesty I haven't discounted the post is from a troll posing as Bravo.
So is this where you got your education?
The Abortion Policies of Nazi Germany

excerpt:

The campaign to legalize abortion, or to liberalize Section 218 of the 1871 national law forbidding it, was an issue for almost the entire history of the Weimar democracy, something not known even to most specialists who study this period. Some nineteen measures concerning legalization/liberalization were introduced between 1919 and 1932.(19) Most of the debate occurred from 1920 to 1930, before there was any sizable number of Nazis in the national parliament, or Reichstag. Supported by the progressives, liberals, or political left, advocates for legalization/liberalization made arguments in the 1920s which were not very different from arguments still being used today:

* Women needed to control their reproduction better, now that so many were workers as well as wives and mothers
* The wealthy could get abortions, despite the law
* The poor were getting abortions anyway; the law was unenforceable
* The poor were frequently being harmed by the untrained and "quacks"
* Children should be planned and wanted (this was the result of the eugenics movement)
* Unborn life was unconscious, while born women were conscious
* Morality is a personal matter
 
Thats a long read....

So what it seems you are claiming is that abortion is a necessary procedure that we must accept out of respect for life.

Am I understanding your view?

Until people control their reproductive urges or mistakes I believe abortion is preferable to bringing unwanted children into the world. Obviously it's better for the unwanted child but it's also better for society, as a whole.
 
Until people control their reproductive urges or mistakes I believe abortion is preferable to bringing unwanted children into the world. Obviously it's better for the unwanted child but it's also better for society, as a whole.
"...abortion is a necessary evil that we must accept out of respect for life."
- Dr. Ley, Nazi racial hygienist, on having "quality," "planned" children, at a meeting on June 15, 1937 with Nazi SS head, Heinrich Himmler. PSR, R320/N518, pp. 85-88.

Your not alone in that thinking.....its an old concept...it goes back to at least 1937 anyway.
 
.Originally Posted by apple0154 View Post
Why a birthday? What's so special about a birthday?

BRAVO: Nothing special about a birthday, pinhead....they could have made it 60 years after first grade...what difference does it make where the measurement starts? Its gotta start somewhere?

APPLE: It's not just about pensions. Why does a birth entitle someone to citizenship? Why not conception? Why mark birth dates on grave stones? Why bother with birth dates at all?

And if fertilized cells are human beings then shouldn't we, as a society, have a proper inquest when one dies? Shouldn't miscarriages be investigated?


APPLE:My comment was, "And, of course, we still have that elephant in the room which is what is the life of the fetus worth vis-a-vis the mother's health."

Why can't I get a straight answer from you or any of the other anti-abortionists? All I hear is a pregnant woman should have the right to abort for medical reasons. So, what medical reasons would justify the right for a woman with a defective body to kill an innocent human being, assuming a fetus is a human being?

BRAVO:You got a straight answer numerous times...NOW there are no reasons required, nothing.....others say "when the life of the mother is threatened"....

APPLE: So severe damage is OK? If a doctor says the woman will suffer complete loss of eye sight due to uncontrolled diabetes that's just the way the cookie crumbles? If she will lose her job and home, too bad? Is that what you mean?

APPLE: Has no one thought about that? Is the reason no one answers because it's all a lie and women wouldn't be allowed to abort regardless of any medical reason? Or is the reason persons pretending to stand tall for the value of life are afraid to show they are, in reality, uber-hypocrites if they answered the loss of a foot or toe or diminished eye sight or the loss of a kidney?

BRAVO: When mothers life is threatened has nothing to do with eyesight or loss of a toe....how does bearing a child cause the loss of a toe? If you're afraid the baby will fall out an crush her toe, just have the women move her feet farther apart, like she did to get into this position in the first place.

APPLE: Glad you asked. Circulation problems due to uncontrolled diabetes results in gangrene. While not a medical doctor I have witnessed people having suffered foot amputations and it frequently starts by a toe or two.

On that note I'm going to bed. The Mrs just headed down the hall and gave the little sway that means.......well, good night, my buddy. :)
 
What makes you think they wouldn't be neglected/abused? What do you base your position on?

I'm not going to fall into the spin that you have always tried to do, when pressed to provided proof of your assertions.

You implied that all the aborted babies would have been neglected and/or abused.
Either show recent data (not 50 years ago) that supports your supposition, unless you're just once again pulling a feeling out of your ass.
 
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