http://www.easternecho.com Fewer questions will yield more impassioned answers than this one: How do you feel about abortion? When asked, a little more than half the population will support a woman’s right to choose and a little under half will be against abortion in all, or almost all, circumstances. en-us Gryphon 2.2.1-dsw (woodward)/Foundry5 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:30:10 -0500 webmaster@easternecho.com http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/286 my feeling is this. Everyone talks about being pro-choice… and making an amendment to stop abortion is taking that choice away from those who are ok with abortion. Well isn’t an amendment in the bill that will finance abortions with taxpayer dollars taking away MY choice to have nothing to do with what I believe to be the sensless murder of innocent lives? When you look at the percentage of incest and rape abortions, they don’t hold a candle to the number of abortions used as after the fact birth control. if you can’t keep your legs closed and you’re to stupid to use the “protection” that is being taught to kids as young as elementary schools now… then kill the baby on your own dime and live with the blood on your own hands. Leave me and my money out of it. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:35:24 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/286 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/287 Here’s the thing, no matter what they choose, everyone will not be happy. If they make it illegal, half of America is going to say that the government is getting involve with our personal life, but the other half is going to happy. But if they make it legal, to many people the government looks like killers to the unborn. so anything they do is going to make at least half of America unhappy. I am pro-life, and i am only 15 years old. I go to school and see several girls that are pregnant and keep the children. But here the thing, if your not smart enough to use protection then keep you legs closed. I see, hear, and know girls who have sex with their boyfriends and never become pregnant because they use protection. So if 16 and 17 year old know how to use it then why can’t women over their 20’s be smart enough to use protection. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:37:44 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/287 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/301 I am pro-choice. I am not one person, but many. Here is what I believe: The fetus is not a human, just a mass of tissue. Abortion is safer than childbirth. Abortion is Safe Every child should be a wanted child. The number of abortions is relatively small. Nobody has the right to impose their morals on me. A woman should be able to control her own body. Abortion must be kept legal, especially for all the rape and incest pregnancies. If abortion is outlawed women will be forced to go to back-alley abortion clinics. Aborting unwanted children reduces the number of abused children. We need to remember that we are overpopulating the planet. Planned Parenthood is a group that focuses on contraception. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:47 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/301 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/326 The back alley abortion clinic claim is misleading. Far fewer women had abortions when it was illegal today it is a massive industry that terminates the lives of 1.5 million babies a year in assembly line style. When it was legalized in 1972 the CDC began reporting solid numbers. The number of abortions rose every year for almost 20 years from 500,000 a year to 1. 5 million per year by the 1990s, suggesting that the practice was spreading. The number of deaths from abortion, legal or not, is about the same. 30 died when it was illegal in 1971 and roughly the same number die today. The rate of premature births is way up though, not suprising since any simple google search with the words “ abortion and premature birth” will show that it is pretty much established fact that abortion doubles the risk of premature birth. And any google search on “ abortion and mental health new zealand study” will show that abortions, even when studies control for previous mental health problems, increase the risk of mental health problems. As for overpopulation, we are not overpopulated. Fertility rates are imploding everywhere, even China has sub replacement level fertility rates. Finally Planned parenthood was founded by a neo nazi racist and planned parenthood has been caught on tape covering up statatory rape on 12 year old girls seeking abortions and accepting money to be used on black babies. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:30:10 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/326