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The One & Only Way To Reduce/Stop Abortions

That's because you think women are these ditzy, dependent, hormone driven bits of fluff incapable of making intelligent decisions about sex, reproduction, pregnancy, birth, abortion and a supportive environment for a child.

Every woman that opts for abortion instead of birth has thought long and hard about the financial, emotional and physical support available to the potential child and has determined that a child would not thrive with what she and her family could offer.

Any woman smart enough and tough enough to balance the future of a child against the resources available to raise a child to be a contributing member of society is probably way smarter than you think.

What the hell are those accusations supposed to stand for?

I do not come close to saying the things you said.

Hell if women were what you allege, I never would have dated them nor married two of them.

To balance the future. Some of you are festering over the unborn. I will add this then. If you can't tell that the unborn do not have the rights of adults, why even think about this issue. Do you truly believe when born children have the rights of the two parents?

They DO NOT. So what the hell is this sham of an argument?
 
LMAO more dishonesty fantasy!!! DRINK!!!!

again what does this have to do with democrats?

You said you went to college and are an engineer and manage people?

So what. What does that have to do with anything?
 
By the way. How many law courses have you taken? Enough to qualify to be an attorney at law?

I have a lot of law education yet not enough to pass the Bar nor be an attorney. I did for many years though have a fiduciary obligation to my clients so I had to take a hell of a lot of law courses.

I did not study law nor have I claimed to have studied law.

However , my cousin is a retired Federal District Judge and we have discussed The Roe decision, the right to privacy precedents that came before Roe , and we have discussed personhood amendments that states tried to pass , etc.
 
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You said you went to college and are an engineer and manage people?

So what. What does that have to do with anything?

LMAO aaaaaand another delicious dodge and failed lie . .

Ill ask you AGAIN

what does this have to do with "democrats"?


:popcorn2:
 
This is the true OP.

So let's get back to the actual OP shall we?

Point 1: In fact, what needs to be done is to drastically reduce unwanted and/or unplanned pregnancies.
When women don't become pregnant, they don't get abortions. Amazing huh?

i agree with point 1.

Point 2. So how does one logically and realistically reduce unwanted pregnancy? <--- There is the crux to the whole abortion debate

1) honest and real sex-education starting BEFORE puberty sets in

I wish that worked.
Had it worked, once schools embarked on sex education in schools, we would by this time seen remarkable gains in cutting out abortions. But though reduced, we are not close to zero or even only 5 percent.


2. Abstinence

I will say this about abstinence, only when truly done does it work. And prior to the BC pill, it worked a lot better than today

3) birth control - education about it, affordable, free, covered by health insurance, easier access to it

This i do not understand. We can cite the constitution to the promotion of the common Welfare but how would this help me or those who are not taking birth control? Why would I pay for others birth prevention tools?


4. When you called for the burden to shift from those having sex, to those paying taxes, you totally befuddled me and lost me in the dust. Socialism is what this points to.

5) stop shaming and demeaning women when it comes to sex

So now I am to blame for this? You never explained citing true examples of why I and my neighbors must share the burden of her sex habits? So why?

6) stop insisting sex should only be for procreation

I am not clear who says that, but I say, not me. Do you plan to explain how sex is not involved in procration? That should be a magic argument.

Wait, what?

Oh yeah:

We are finished here.
 
Wait, what?

Oh yeah:

Well I was speaking of one particular poster. But if you must include yourself, sure. Why not.

By the way, to me it means I nailed it so you change the topic.
 
LMAO aaaaaand another delicious dodge and failed lie . .

Ill ask you AGAIN

what does this have to do with "democrats"?


:popcorn2:

Well you do. Since you plan to keep bringing them up to me.
 
I did not study law nor have I claimed to have studied law.

However , my cousin is a retired Federal District Judge and we have discussed The Roe decision, the right to privacy precedents that came before Roe , and we have discussed personhood amendments that states tried to pass , etc.

I consider that well past the majority of posters. At least you got legal advice on this particular topic.
Well done.
 
Well you do. Since you plan to keep bringing them up to me.

another sweet dodge and posted lie!!!
SO much fun exposing your failed claims.

Ill ask you AGAIN, please explain
what does this have to do with "democrats"?

thanks!
 
Damned right i am tired of you refusing to read all of my comments.

You want to stick to unborn having equal rights (which I never said) and I replied, not only do they not have equal rights, the kids born also do not have equal rights. So it clearly means born children including in cases, clear up to age 21 not having equal rights.

i want to stick the blame right in the faces of who did all of this. We know it has been Democrats. Lady, you are in the wrong party.

The most basic right...life...would incur the violations to women's right's that I have outlined. Up to and including the woman's life.

To protect the unborn life...the govt ensuring the woman was forced to bring it to birth...would violate all the rights I mentioned: due process, the same exact privacy rights that men have (women would have to give up), bodily sovereignty, self-determination, liberty (if women defied the govt and attempted abortion, to force a woman to remain pregnant if she refused, etc), and even her right to life, since every single pregnancy is a risk to a woman's life and it cannot be predicted.

the fact that this wasnt clear before (after you complain and complain I dont read your posts) when I clearly wrote 'to protect the life of the unborn' is your shortcoming, not mine. I wrote it clearly.

Now what is your answer? How do you justify this at the expense of all a woman's rights?
 
3) birth control - education about it, affordable, free, covered by health insurance, easier access to it

This i do not understand. We can cite the constitution to the promotion of the common Welfare but how would this help me or those who are not taking birth control? Why would I pay for others birth prevention tools?


4. When you called for the burden to shift from those having sex, to those paying taxes, you totally befuddled me and lost me in the dust. Socialism is what this points to.

5) stop shaming and demeaning women when it comes to sex

So now I am to blame for this? You never explained citing true examples of why I and my neighbors must share the burden of her sex habits? So why?

6) stop insisting sex should only be for procreation

I am not clear who says that, but I say, not me. Do you plan to explain how sex is not involved in procration? That should be a magic argument.

Actually , you would not be paying for the birth control in the case of the woman’s health insurance coving it.

But even if it was covered by your taxes for every dollar that is spent on family planning include birth control $7 of taxpayer money is saved.

From a 2014 article:

U.S. Taxpayers Save $7 For Every Dollar The Government Spends On Family Planning

U.S. Taxpayers Save $7 For Every Dollar The Government Spends On Family Planning – ThinkProgress

And I can source that for ya Minnie if you need it.

Sadly, he also misses the point that the more birth control is used, the fewer abortions take place.

So he deliberately wants to end subsidization of one of the things that truly causes fewer abortions.
:doh IMO this indicates either a mental disconnect or someone who values his $$ more than the 'poor innocent babies' being aborted.

Did you ever get a response to your post Minnie?
 
Well I was speaking of one particular poster. But if you must include yourself, sure. Why not.



No. You were speaking directly to me, and only to me.

You're either a liar, or very bad at this (especially since you've been here since Clinton was POTUS). :roll:
 

Oh, here!

ONLY SAVED if you manage to force me to spend it at all. And you quit forcing me.

So you would prefer that society, taxpayers (you) would be better off spending 7x more instead of paying the help subsidize birth control and other reproductive counseling that are proven to reduce unplanned pregnancies and therefore...factually reduce abortions?

Yes?

Source:

Guttmacher
U.S. Taxpayers Save $7 For Every Dollar The Government Spends On Family Planning – ThinkProgress
 
The most basic right...life...would incur the violations to women's right's that I have outlined. Up to and including the woman's life.

To protect the unborn life...the govt ensuring the woman was forced to bring it to birth...would violate all the rights I mentioned: due process, the same exact privacy rights that men have (women would have to give up), bodily sovereignty, self-determination, liberty (if women defied the govt and attempted abortion, to force a woman to remain pregnant if she refused, etc), and even her right to life, since every single pregnancy is a risk to a woman's life and it cannot be predicted.

the fact that this wasnt clear before (after you complain and complain I dont read your posts) when I clearly wrote 'to protect the life of the unborn' is your shortcoming,

Now what is your answer? How do you justify this at the expense of all a woman's rights?

Tic Tock, Tic Tock. How to talk to you. Tic Tock and Tic tock

This will not constitute a derailing since I plan to return to this.

Let me cite another issue I was heavily involved with at my RE Board when I was then a director.

The gist of this story involves health insurance that was paid entirely for by members who checked the box agreeing to having it and paying fully for it.

I was dealing with several members, one a female member on the same Directors board when she submitted for our vote removing all formerly qualified people from paying in full for the health coverage. This means Kaiser would take our direction as our law and kick them all off their paid for policies. These policies naturally involved all health care and not merely some of it. Details could follow how they came to be qualified at all and more. i want to stick to our vote.

I worked hard to persuade the board they deserved to remain on the health plans for several reasons. 1. They were asked to join. 2. They paid their own policies. 3. Kaiser health informed me that they gladly wanted them to keep paying. but kicked off they would not be allowed to keep them on the policy. Kaiser was covering them under a Board plan.

I worked hard to persuade my fellow Directors. How dare we treat them this way when the Board itelf was responsible for includintg them to begin with.

Some directors said it was that they were not paying dues thus not eligible. Some were widows. Widows also need insurance. Some kicked off were paying dues when they joined thre plan yet retired and no longer paid dues.

Anyway, it ended up there were enough directors voting them off that they killed the plans for a good many people.

You mightr retort, life is hard. If you don't pay dues off you go. I do not agree. I and other membvers had retored the finances of the board to outstanding helth. We lost not one dime from widows who themselves never had paid dues and it was not their fault the husband died leaving them the burden alone to pay for insurance. And they kept paying.

So the board kicked them off. To this day I believe it was wrong. The widows were forced to pay more premiums to have trhe same insurance. We treasted widows like crap.

Back to your argument.

Humans or embryos

As i told you not all yhumans are equally able to have full rights.

You proclaim to my deaf ears the women are deprived.

But deprived to do what?

Kill their own dogs or cats or horses?

Sure in some towns that is illegal.

My view stems from the unborn being not horses or dogs, but honest to god humans. In development.

Can that end this parade I must remain fully involved in? No it will not.

So one more time, I am not changing a damned thing and do not understand why this is now my burden to prove squat.

I no longer am a director of the board. I have lost all directors voting privileges. I do not even have members voting privileges. So if the Board revives it and makes it go my way, I will not be a voting member.
I do not vote as a member of the house nor the senate.

All I can offer is my views and clearly you do not like my views.

If you liked my views you would have quit this bugging me to stay in the bugs bunny hotel.

So, one more time. I do not agree her bearing her child is a violation of her rights. See this applies not to a few women, all women. Women not being pregnant have the right to not get pregnant We both can agree that is fact. I simply came to make a suggestion on a way to end this damned diatribe that always pops up when abortion is the topic.

And you despise all of my attempts. I simply know of no way you will be happy. Even though my arguments if told to lawyers would make sense to them, to you they do not make sense. I pretty much rely mostly on my legal training since to me my legal training was excellent in how to argue and do so with principle.

Can i make you happy? I do not not accept I will make you happy.

Your sole basis of happiness will only be when you beat me to crap and I submit to you and your credo.
 
Oh, here!



So you would prefer that society, taxpayers (you) would be better off spending 7x more instead of paying the help subsidize birth control and other reproductive counseling that are proven to reduce unplanned pregnancies and therefore...factually reduce abortions?

Yes?

Source:

Guttmacher
U.S. Taxpayers Save $7 For Every Dollar The Government Spends On Family Planning – ThinkProgress

That is a faulty argument

It supposes it is my duty to pay squat. 47 percent of the public is excused from being taxed for those same things. so it is the 53 percent who must pay. So I do not believe that is fair to the 53 percent.
 
No. You were speaking directly to me, and only to me.

You're either a liar, or very bad at this (especially since you've been here since Clinton was POTUS). :roll:

I have never said I have been a member here since Clinton. I was then a member of a forum on AOL but not here.

Tell the forum what my lie was.

That i talked to you?

Hell pal, if that is wrong, here is your apology. I do not recall what makes you say it, but hells bells, I apologize to you. Sorry I did that.
 
That is a faulty argument

It supposes it is my duty to pay squat. 47 percent of the public is excused from being taxed for those same things. so it is the 53 percent who must pay. So I do not believe that is fair to the 53 percent.

You are welcome to 'cut off your nose to spite your face'...it's idiotic to want to pay more when paying less would actually accomplish a person's goal...but hey...it's a free country.
 
Tic Tock, Tic Tock. How to talk to you. Tic Tock and Tic tock

This will not constitute a derailing since I plan to return to this.

Didnt read it. No further than this. You once again refuse to continue the discussion directly, to answer direct questions, to directly refute my arguments.

*If* you return to this, perhaps I will read it.

Otherwise, please just continue the discussion as I just politely asked...directly.
 
Folks stay with me on this Guttmacher thing.

I read the site. I understand it is an advocacy group devoted to promoting abortion.

This puts a new spin on them doesn't it? They want abortion to remain and for the Feds to pay for it.

Naturally when you want the Feds to pay, you like abortion. It is why you exist. As a group favoring abortion. do not expect them to ever give you any opposing views. They are not cut out to do it.

When you hear the term lobbyist this is what Democrats mean.

You know who else is a lobbyist? The ACLU
 
Didnt read it. No further than this. You once again refuse to continue the discussion directly, to answer direct questions, to directly refute my arguments.

*If* you return to this, perhaps I will read it.

Otherwise, please just continue the discussion as I just politely asked...directly.

At least you were gracious to admit you do not read my posts. I do not believe you ever will either.
 
You are welcome to 'cut off your nose to spite your face'...it's idiotic to want to pay more when paying less would actually accomplish a person's goal...but hey...it's a free country.

AGain with the snark. I told you, I do not pay squat. It is not my problem. If it is yours, well that seems to be what you want. Do it since it is you that had your own money tied up in this condition, not me.
 
Folks have any of you come to the conclusion that some posters amount to stalkers.? When you tell them to knock it off, they refuse?
 
At least you were gracious to admit you do not read my posts. I do not believe you ever will either.

No, I said I didnt read that long wall of text, that one.

See, look at you lying to get out of directly answering my argument. Because you cannot. Why wont you give direct answers? Instead you wrote a 'story.' :doh
 
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