How Many Abortions Have YOU Paid For?
By anniepa
@anniepa (27955)
United States
March 5, 2010 4:16pm CST
Who KNOWS how many abortions you have directly or indirectly "funded" using the convoluted logic the "pro-lifers" are using regarding the language in the Senate health care bill! Say you buy something from a grocery store or restaurant and a woman who works there has an abortion; with your purchase you contributed to her paycheck, right? Basically, whether she pays for it herself or is covered by insurance she either gets through her employer or pays out of her own pocket, YOU'RE helping to fund her abortion! That's fairly direct.
More indirectly, if you buy something - ANYTHING - from a store and the store got it from a wholesale distributor who got it directly from a factory where someone works who has an abortion, once again you're funding an abortion.
I totally respect anyone's view on such a personal and sensitive issue as abortion. I know there are those of you who are opposed to abortion under almost any circumstances and want to see it banned. As I see it that's a whole different issue. For now, it's legal in the USA and these ridiculous interpretations of how a US citizen chooses to spend her own money is a needless distraction.
Any comments?
Annie
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
6 Mar 10
Do the people who gave the restaurant customer the money have a say in how it gets spent. Maybe they were koser and their money is now supporting a non koser restaurant.
What if the person who gave the money to the person who bought something from the gal who had the abortion was a pro choicer. It was once their money and now it is supporting something they endorse... There you go, just tell the pro lifers it all works out in the end.
This is inane stuff. I'm for letting people use their money for wha ever legal purpose they see fit and right now abortion is legal.
The only caveat I have about abortion right is that I do not feel a hospital that is religion affiliated should loose public funding because they refuse to perform abortions but that's a whole other issue.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
7 Mar 10
I agree with you completely. The whole idea about federal funds being used to pay for abortions under the new health care bill, if it passes, is ludicrous, in my opinion and Stupak and others who are attempting to hold things up over this are nothing but hypocrites. How can someone admit that health care reform is badly needed and that people are dying due to the lack of it and yet be against a bill solely because of what they call a "pro-life" issue?
Annie
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
5 Mar 10
I am not a pro-lifer but I do not mind indirectly paying for an abortion if it is a result of rape or if the mother's life is in danger if she carries the pregnancy to full term. Any other reason such as convenience is IMO unacceptable and payment should not come from my money!
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
5 Mar 10
As another poster pointed out, in those scenarios the woman worked for and EARNED the money she used to pay for that abortion (she also earned the health insurance she's getting from her employer as that's part of her employment). It's HER money. That's much different than when MY money, taken from me by the government, is used to fund the murder of an innocent child.
After all, I can refuse to spend my money at the store where this woman works. I can refuse to participate in a health insurance program that funds abortions. If I refuse to pay taxes the government will prosecute me and potentially jail me if I'm not a member of the Obama administration or a democratic congressman.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
7 Mar 10
First of all I'd like to point out that the murder of children is illegal, thank God.
You're right, you could refuse to shop at the store where this woman works IF you knew she was going to spend the money she earned on an abortion. However, chances are pretty good - again, thank God - you WON'T know, which you shouldn't because it's none of your business!
Annie
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
7 Mar 10
Annie murdering children is perfectly legal so long as that child hasn't left the mother's body yet. Pro-abortion types don't care about whether that child has a heart, brain, etc. If it would inconvenience the mother to have a child for whatever reasons pro-abortionists support murdering that child and as abortion is premeditated, it is certainly murder.
That's what made Tiller such a hero. He wouldn't let ANYTHING get in his way when it came to killing children. A woman could be 8 months pregnant and he'd still kill the child as that made him rich. All he had to do was pay one of his employees to say that the woman could get depressed if she had the child thereby affecting her health.
Yes the murder of an innocent child is none of my business Annie. I know you think we should all just butt out when it comes to a woman wanting to kill a child for any reason, whether it be to spite the father, keep her figure, etc. The constitution doesn't support the whole pro-abortion crap, but I know you wouldn't let that pesky document get in the way.
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@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
6 Mar 10
Taskr, did you ever wonder why the RNC hasn't gone after the democrats for their tax evasion problems? That is because the democrats are the only ones with tax problems. Remember our last vice president was a multimillionaire and only paid 9% of his income in taxes. Kind of blows that over taxes 30% tax bracket BS out of the water doesn't it?
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@farazkh1 (1153)
• Pakistan
6 Mar 10
Thats true! but what about multinational companies who supports Israel to kill innocent Palestinians & USA forces invade in foreign lands.our luxury spendings should be considered and people must have awareness for what n where they are spending there money.
The capitalism is an "Evil" of 21st century and we are occupied by them due to there economic Terrorism & captivity....!
@BlueAngelRS (2899)
• Canada
5 Mar 10
that is a good point indeed and yes I can see that with how you have explained it.....Abortion for me is a touchy subject indeed.....I believe that if a person gets an abortion cuz they have found out there are medical issues for the Mother or the child to carry on with the pregnancy then I can support that as being a person of that nature right now....I gave birth to a stillborn almost 3 years ago and I have high blood pressure and was told it could happen again that was hard to hear....I'm not with anybody right now but I would take every precaution not to get pregnant again but if it happened I would have to consider abortion as I can not go through that again....So if the woman is using abortion as a form of birth control I believe that is very wrong and if money we give places is funding that well that is touchy....Happy Mylotting.....
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
6 Mar 10
First of all, I'm very sorry you had to go through such a difficult thing. I can understand how you'd feel if you were faced with going through that again and it would be nobody's choice but your own. Personally, I agree that it's wrong to "use abortion as a form of birth control", but I don't believe there are many who do that since it's not an easy, painless (physically or emotionally) or cheap thing to go through and many women aren't covered by insurance for the procedure plus I don't feel it's my right to judge someone else.
Anyway, back to the topic of this discussion, I'm not sure if you missed my intended sarcasm or not. We really have no way of knowing WHAT things we disapprove of are being bought or done with the money we spend on any of the goods and services we pay for. I was trying to make the point that we're funding a lot more abortions just by living our day to day lives than would ever be VERY indirectly funded with our tax dollars under the proposed health care bills.
Annie
@joebrpt84 (85)
• Malaysia
6 Mar 10
This is one of the things that girls should not do.. I just dis agree with Abortion...
