Reply #8: Exactly. [View All]

[noamnety]

Anyone who is anti-war, anti-death penalty, pro-health insurance, pro-environment, pro-worker is "pro-life." If you (the OP) mean anti-choice or anti-abortion, just say so.

And then explain to me why, as a woman, I should vote for someone who thinks they should be able to make my medical decisions based on their religion. For me, that's a nonstarter. If they were in favor of withholding medical care from you based on their religion - let's say they were in one of those groups that doesn't believe in medical drugs at all, or surgery - I'm guessing you would have a problem with it.

Aside from that, they do a hell of a lot more than appoint judges. Just look at Bush's appointees to the FDA.

Tommy Thompson, led delegation to U.N. children's summit opposing special rehabilitation for raped children (including birth control). Removed scientific statistics from National Cancer Institute from HHS websites that showed that breast cancer risk does not increase due to abortions. Also removed fact sheets on condom effectiveness.

W. David Hager. Time magazine reported that "In his private practice, two sources familiar with it say, Hager refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women." Played a part in the campaign to get the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone (RU-486), the author of a number of books in which he's advocated prayer and the reading of the Scriptures as cures for medical ills.

Joseph B. Stanford. Refuses to prescribe "contraceptives of any sort." Advocates “natural family planning”, e.g. the rhythm method, as the only acceptable form of contraception because “…medicine is permeated with attitudes toward sexuality and fertility that are incompatible with Christian values."

Dr. Susan Crockett, co-author of the chapter “Using Hormone Contraceptives Is a Decision Involving Science, Scripture, and Conscience” in "The Reproduction Revolution (Horizons in Bioethics Series): A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies, and the Family"


And let's not forget there are funds to be withheld from organizations that do family planning/abortions. The result of the anti-choice brigade being in office is not only partial birth abortion laws in the US, but an increase in AIDS, in unwanted pregnancy, and in poverty around the world.

Would you vote for someone that favored forced abortions, like in China? No? Then don't expect people to vote for someone that favors forced births.