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Here is the “official” response I received in return.

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Please help spread the word!!!

Daniel Edd Bland III

I think it’s important in our society to inform women that abortion is one of the toughest decisions in their lives and they should not take this decision lightly. It is good to promote the pro-life arguments, tell people that life is always a better choice, that abortion is some kind of a murder, because it is, no point to argue that. Moreover, women must understand that many times abortion goes wrong and complications of that procedure may end up pretty badly leaving this woman barren for the rest of her life, she will never be able to give life to a human being.

On the other hand, any pregnancy carries dangers, too. Many things can go wrong, the mother and the child may not be compatible by blood type, multiple pregnancies are significantly more dangerous. The mother and the child may die because of some pregnancy complication or because of difficult delivery. Happens all the time, and more often then some people think.

The bottom line is, Focus on the Family must focus on promoting life, promoting the CHOICE of life, talking about complications of abortions, making it clear that the focus in making this decision must be always on choosing life as opposed to death; and only when a woman doesn’t really feel like she is ready for the journey of parenting, or even for giving life to a child only to give it up for adoption (which is always a better compromise), or there is some really important reason why she doesn’t want to go through the pregnancy, — that’s when the only option is abortion. This decision should be hard, and all the options should be made clear beforehand, all the dangers explained. But the choice should never be taken away!

The right takes a literal interpretation of the bible which is to be fruitful and multiply. Which is why they are against same-sex marriage (we can’t multiply), sex education and the use of any kinds of contraceptives. Personally I think they would like nothing less than a christian version of Iran, a theocracy.

They (religious-rightwingers) also tend to prefer their women to be submissive, stay at home, baby-making machines. Which is why you tend to see only the males being overzealous pro-lifers e.g. George Tiller’s killer Scott Roeder.

By doling out a 2 million dollar ad Focus on the Family is slightly squeezing the door open and CBS just gave them a hand. There will be more ads like this to come.

I think that FotF punked the ad world, and like “Mancrunch”, created a bit of controversy to get some free advertising. Especially knowing that today, many people would be saying “folks were complaining for two weeks about THAT?!?”

The world, as I keep saying, ain’t perfect. But as a whole the judicial stuff keeps the legislatures from running amok.

I am Unsurprised that other countries took our outsourced women…in the instance that it becomes illegal again, expect many, many visits to Canada, Mexico, the UK, and France for a “Weekend of Shopping.”

The one issue with contraception is that in no case is it 100% effective (neither is abstinence, for that matter, as rape and incest may certainly still occur, as can a simple “slip” [and slide?] with your current swain). And the education behind it is, as you noted, awful.

On the up side, gay sex has a 0% pregnancy rate. Maybe the right-wing should start promoting that! :-)

However, if she had I never would have noticed, having no more ability to respond to my environment than a clam until month 6 to 7 of gestation.

What most wingers fail to realize is that it happens anyway. The proverbial coat-hanger isn’t the best method, but does occasionally get used. A hot bath and a quart of gin (elderberry extract) got used more. Pennyroyal. The list of abortificants is almost endless–those are just two common ones.

The world ain’t perfect, sweetheart. Far better that it be done in a sterile, safe environment that preserves the life and health of the mother than some back-alley procedure where neither is respected.

…Unless, of course, you’d like to say they deserve it, in which case hypocrisy is definitely your forte.

“CHOICE” is what Democracy ‘means’. Without ‘choice’, some of our democracy disappears, and Theocracy begins.

JJ
Mitch Branson, Brandon Lewis & Rod Daily OH MY
http://jjadams928.blogspot.com/

This is a moral issue, son. A woman is killing a life. Murder is a moral crime.

As for choice, please spare me. Your mom had a choice to abort u…arent u glad she didnt?

Its sick.

Could he be a big xtian closet case? It looks as though he has an overbearing mother (HAHAHahahaAHhahHAhaha!)

what a stood thing to say. If you think they will just drop the anti-gay agenda you are dead wrong.

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.