Hi Laura,

Thanks for posting that transcript. I feel as Obama does about choice and about how to reduce abortions. Now he has his first opportunity to make an appointment to the Supreme Court. I hope the abortion issue doesn't hamper getting the best justice possible on the SC.

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What the stupid celibates forget is that not ALL women do it because they "feel they have no other" choice.

I can't take ANY thing any chief in the church says seriously UNTIL child rapists are prosecuted. They put their little boys club above the law, so they have no right to tell ME what is moral or right for me.

MM, they won't have children that they ADMIT to.  But I'll wager that there's more than fatherless child running around whose daddy is a "celibate", and many whose mommy (or birth mother) was an altar server...  

How nice. That model of sanctity and "protector"...or was that "Predator" is going to make sure that "pregnant women" are supported during their pregnancies so they can know there are other choices than abortion. My personal favorite is still birth control--oh, that's right! That isn't common ground because the Church still opposes birth control.

The best way to prevent abortions is birth control being available at a reasonable price or even free if you qualify.  My grandparents lost their farm during the 1930's and had to go on County Aid just to be able to feed their children. Part of that package included birth control because the County didn't want any new mouths to feed. Grandma said that while it was embarassing, it was also a huge relief because they couldn't afford it. It was just one of the conditions and anything was better than literally starving.

It's funny that abortions were at their lowest during President Clinton's terms in office and rose dramatically during President Bush's terms when he was so against it. Perhaps it was because schools lost their Federal funding if they taught anything besides abstinence to our kids. If there ever was a recipe for unplanned pregnancies, not making sure our kids have the information to protect themselves ranks right up there.

I'm glad that President Obama is seeking a middle ground instead of trying to legislate one way or the other.With so many people losing their insurance, their jobs, and their homes right now, this isn't a climate where overturning Roe vs Wade is a good idea. If they are going to go after any kind of bastards, the ones who destroyed our economy to become wealthier should be the focus instead.

May 3, 2009 -- 7:34AM, Tmarie64 wrote:

What the stupid celibates forget is that not ALL women do it
because they "feel they have no other" choice.

I can't take ANY thing any chief in the church says seriously UNTIL child rapists are prosecuted.
They put their little boys club above the law, so they have no right to tell ME what
is moral or right for me.

MM, they won't have children that they ADMIT to.  But I'll wager that there's more than
fatherless child running around whose daddy is a "celibate", and many whose mommy
(or birth mother) was an altar server...

What young girl "altar servers"? ---Some of "those" mommies from back in the days before
there were "girl" altar servers,  they were devote (and devotly scared) married Catholic
women who went to their local "priest" for counsel!
Only to wind up in an affair with their "celibate" priest.
Just ask my husband's uncle when his local "celibate" priest ruined his sacred Catholic
blessed marriage.
To this very day (for the past 50yrs) he still wonders if he youngest child is his
or the "celibate" priest's child.
The man has never been the same since and has only stepped foot inside a church
for his own mother's funeral service.

So the hierarchy cannot afford to dictate to or make rules for anybody, not with their
very vast checkered past and past ill-will deeds.  (And yes, it doesn't apply to ALL but
it applies nonetheless.)