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There is something terribly wrong to think it necessary to perform partial-birth abortions on healthy females. I certainly believe the numbers of these type of operations and the odds of it being a life preserving operation for the mother, won't add up.

 Also, many of the same people with strong objections to abortion also strongly object to sex, and therefore to birth control. They don't want it taught in school, they don't want it as an  option, only abstinance. This is not realistic. People are animals, they have sex drive,

That is nuts.  Who are you talking about here?  You may be an animal, I am a human, who can see the consequences of my actions and who can control my baser instincts, thank you very much.

Two and a half Men, is enough to make any woman prefer abstinence. 

Funny, with all the sex Ed in schools and all the B.S about how knowledge is the answer, young girls are still getting pregnant. 

It starts in the home.  I'd be perfectly happy if the schools wouldn't teach sex at all.  It is the parents job.  Unfortunately they are taking too many days off.

 Abortion is not about a "woman's choice" or "control of her body" If so, there would be no laws against prostitution, drugs, not using seat belts, etc. since these too involve choice or control of one's body. It is not about  "the health of the mother" because the national OBGYN medical group has said there is never a time when having a child endangers the health of the mother.

Abortion is about a lifestyle one wishes to maintain and not having a child involved since a child would be an inconvenience.

50,000,000 dead babies and counting. That's seven times the number of people killed by the Nazis. Says a lot about the values of some people. How many artists, doctors, cures for diseases and many other scourges of mankind, writers, etc. have been murdered?

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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49218

(CNSNews.com) – The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) says Judge Sonia Sotomayor failed to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee a controversial document arguing that the death penalty is “racist” and a violation of the present “humanist” thinking of society.

The 1981 memo, they say, should have been disclosed as required under Question 12 (b) of the questionnaire that the Supreme Court nominee turned in Thursday.

Question 12(b) requires a nominee to "(s)upply four (4) copies of any reports, memoranda, or policy statements you prepared or contributed to the preparation of on behalf of any bar association, committee, conference, or organization of which you were or are a member or in which you have participated."

JCN Counsel Wendy Long sent a letter Friday to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and members of the committee arguing that Sotomayor had not properly complied with this requirement because she had not submitted the 1981 memo on capital punishment.

“It is . . . clear that (Sotomayor) has omitted controversial material from her past in which she asserts that '[c]apital punishment is associated with evident racism in our society' and advocated public opposition to restoring the death penalty in New York state,” Long wrote to the committee.

Long told CNSNews.com that her group had obtained a copy of the memorandum from an undisclosed source--and was convinced of its authenticity. The copy of the memorandum attached to JCN's letter to the Judiciary Committee is signed by a three-person task force of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) that included Sotomayor.

Long said that in her Senate questionnaire Sotomayor had accurately disclosed the fact that she worked for the PRLDEF from 1980 to 1992, and held high-ranking positions with the organization.

She also truthfully listed on the questionnaire an April 10, 1981 letter from PRLDEF to then-New York Gov. Hugh Carey, opposing reinstatement of the death penalty.

“But what she omitted, and what is far more substantive and revealing,” Long told CNSNews.com, “is the underlying policy memorandum that she and two other task force members sent to the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund with all their reasons for opposing the death penalty, and arguing for the organization itself to take the stand that it ultimately did take in its letter to Gov. Carey.”

The memo that Sotomayor signed makes a number of “controversial, unsupported, and badly reasoned assertions” about the death penalty, Long added.

The memo, titled "Task Force on the Bill to Restore the Death Penalty in New York State," and dated March 24, 1981, states:

-- “An impressive array of highly respectable organizations have (sic) taken a public position opposed to the restoration of death penalty. All the major religious organizations have issued public statements opposed to it.”

--"In the review of the current literature of the past two years, no publications have been found that challenge the evidence and the rationale presented in opposition to the death penalty."

--"Capital punishment is associated with evident racism in our society. The number of minorities and the poor executed or awaiting execution is out of proportion to their numbers in the population."

--"The problem of crime and violence in American society is so complex, it is unreasonable to think that capital punishment will result in preventing it or diminishing it."

--"Our present perspective on the meaning of our values in the Judeo-Christian tradit

The more I see of the new people in government, the more I fear for the future of my country, and my children.  I agree that there are many differing viewpoints on issues like abortion, gays, etc.  Sadly, these issues, most of them eroding the morality that makes a nation strong, are dividing us to the point that there is no real United States of America, as a people.  That title now applies only to the corporate United States, the government with its corporate president, Barack Obama, at its helm.  The actual citizens of the US are a divided, confused, and desperate mass, fighting with each other over the issues that should unite us.

The poster above who stated that pro-choice is a very slippery slope is correct.  You cannot say that the pregnancy and whether to keep it or terminate it is a woman's choice, as it is her body, without giving rise to looser interpretations of other issues.  Since there is another human life involved, it is very much a debate of morality and not a simple matter of a woman's choice.  If a woman can be criminally charged with murder for shaking a tiny baby to death because she can't make it stop crying, then she should be charged with murder for terminating a healthy pregnancy.  If you don't want the baby, this can't be stressed enough:  DON'T GET PREGNANT.  It's that easy.  Keep your pants on, and you won't have a problem.

And please don't waste your breath arguing over what constitutes a human being.  Life begins at conception, not birth.  If the "fetus", "embryo", or whatever you call it, was not alive, it would not be able to develop into a viable human being.  As for the comparison between cancer and a "fetus", I've never heard of cancer being born, crying, or going on to become a useful member of society. 

And Phoebe,  I am one of those who doesn't believe that sex should be taught in school.  Human beings do have sex drives, but since we are supposed to be the most intelligent beings on earth, does it not stand to reason that we should be able to understand and control our baser instincts, and take responsibility for them?  When you teach a concept that is by definition an adult one, to children, of course, they are going to experiment with it.  You can tell them don't, and they will.  You can tell them to use BC, but they won't because they want to see for themselves why they should.  But when you put an easy out like abortion there, and make it clear that it doesn't matter what you do, you can just get rid of it, you've stripped away the responsibility associated with the act, and made it "no big deal".  Interestingly enough, if you look back to before sex ed was taught in schools and on TV, there were far less pregnancies, STD's, and other problems. 

The more we "educate" our kids, the more immoral they become.  We are not ANIMALS, and we have to stop teaching our children that they are. 

Crys