Comments on: Force the GOP candidates to answer whether they support freely available birth control. http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:57:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/#comment-15833 Dan Klarmann Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:38:48 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1915#comment-15833 I was wondering why there were bloody placard carrying pro-life picketers around Barnes Hospital today. I was wondering why there were bloody placard carrying pro-life picketers around Barnes Hospital today.

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/#comment-15832 grumpypilgrim Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:54:45 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1915#comment-15832 I have never understood why so many people fall for the nonsense argument that says, "if human life begins at conception, then abortion should be illegal." I've discussed this nonsense argument in detail in the following posts: http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=107 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=912 Simply put: the moment at which human life "begins" is irrelevant to the question of whether or not abortion should be illegal. Accordingly, proponents of abortion rights should point out this fallacy and force the so-called "pro-life" people to directly confront the real question. I have never understood why so many people fall for the nonsense argument that says, “if human life begins at conception, then abortion should be illegal.” I’ve discussed this nonsense argument in detail in the following posts:
http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=107
http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=912

Simply put: the moment at which human life “begins” is irrelevant to the question of whether or not abortion should be illegal. Accordingly, proponents of abortion rights should point out this fallacy and force the so-called “pro-life” people to directly confront the real question.

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/#comment-15831 Erich Vieth Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:56:24 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1915#comment-15831 Today, Governor Mike Huckabee is scheduled to travel to Georgia to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. There he plans to join Georgia Right to Life to lend his support, as well as the focus of the national media, to HR 536. This legislation, also called the Human Life Amendment, is a state constitutional amendment that reclassifies the most effective and popular forms of contraception as abortion. The goal of the amendment is to create a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade while also defining life as beginning at fertilization. The anti-abortion movement believes that hormonal contraception (the pill, the patch, the depo shot, the nuva ring, the IUD) can destroy a fertilized egg. <strong>By setting in law the assertion -- the unproveable assertion -- that life begins at the moment of fertilization, the most common forms of contraception become abortion.</strong> For the full article by Christina Page of Huffpo, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-page/what-the-huck_b_82630.html " target="_blank">go here.</a> Today, Governor Mike Huckabee is scheduled to travel to Georgia to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. There he plans to join Georgia Right to Life to lend his support, as well as the focus of the national media, to HR 536. This legislation, also called the Human Life Amendment, is a state constitutional amendment that reclassifies the most effective and popular forms of contraception as abortion. The goal of the amendment is to create a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade while also defining life as beginning at fertilization. The anti-abortion movement believes that hormonal contraception (the pill, the patch, the depo shot, the nuva ring, the IUD) can destroy a fertilized egg. By setting in law the assertion — the unproveable assertion — that life begins at the moment of fertilization, the most common forms of contraception become abortion.

For the full article by Christina Page of Huffpo, go here.

]]> By: Mike Pulcinella http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/#comment-15317 Mike Pulcinella Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:27:01 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1915#comment-15317 Like we NEED a reason! Like we NEED a reason!

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/#comment-15316 Erich Vieth Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:01:38 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1915#comment-15316 Oh, yeah. Back for an encore, many reasons to have lots of sex. http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=693 Oh, yeah. Back for an encore, many reasons to have lots of sex. http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=693

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/12/09/force-the-gop-candidates-to-answer-whether-they-support-freely-available-birth-control/#comment-15315 Erich Vieth Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:12:34 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1915#comment-15315 Here is some MUST reading for those interested in the GOP hypocritical war on sex: <blockquote>The central trouble with this war on sex is that early on in the history of Western civilization, sex has been demonized by religious leaders until today it is the norm to be ashamed of any sexual impulse whatsoever.</blockquote> http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/07/184442.php Here is some MUST reading for those interested in the GOP hypocritical war on sex:

The central trouble with this war on sex is that early on in the history of Western civilization, sex has been demonized by religious leaders until today it is the norm to be ashamed of any sexual impulse whatsoever.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/07/184442.php

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