Entries Tagged as 'abortion'

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

American Medical Association was a driving force behind anti-abortion laws

The strongest force behind the drive to criminalize abortion was the attempt by doctors to establish for themselves exclusive rights to practice medicine. They wanted to prevent “untrained” practitioners, including midwives, apothecaries, and homeopaths, from competing with them for patients and for patient fees. The best way to accomplish their goal was to eliminate one [...]

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Ron Paul’s NARAL Pro‐Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/statements/paul.html 2006: 65 percent 2005: 75 percent 2004: 65 percent 2003: 0 percent 2002: 20 percent 2001: 35 percent 2000: 0 percent 1999: 26 percent 1998: 10 percent 1997: 3 percent

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Why Ron Paul should be the Republican nominee, even though his abortion views suck.

Dan Lyke wrote: This, particularly, is why I don’t care what else, for instance, Ron Paul may be pushing politically: if he believes in forced childbirth he does not believe in liberty or freedom. At least not for women. More specifically, Ron Paul does not believe that women should have the liberty to kill what [...]

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Ron Paul on abortion

stmachiavelli wrote: Roe v. Wade is a terrible decision. It goes beyond bad. But nothing Ron has done has worked towards changing that. Nothing. We know from another commenter that Ron doesn’t support, vote for, or sponsor legislation that he doesn’t actively support or write for. From this we can infer that his stance on [...]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Mitt Romney: “I can’t imagine anything more awful…”

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows that I have a generally low opinion of politicians. But Mitt Romney particularly rubs me the wrong way. To understand why, know that I was raised in the Mormon church, and considered myself a member until I was 19 or so. (I’m probably [...]

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Thoughts on abortion

The problem, as I see it, is that while the woman's body is hers, both parents have reasonable ownership claims to the embryo. After all, if the father doesn't have an ownership claim in the embryo, why should he be obligated to help pay for the baby's care after it is born? Suppose we both [...]