Comments on: It’s All About Choice, People

By: kay

kay — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:37:06 +0000

I’m assuming this was added to stumbleupon because it’s outrageous, and I am certainly outraged. How dare you bourgoisie and politicians tell me that you know better than I do about what I should do with MY OWN BODY?! Doctors take oaths to provide service to the people. I disagree with idiots… therefore I’m pushing for a bill that intelligence tests be administered before idiots are treated for anything. (kidding) Contraceptives have been used for thousands of years. If Gawd had that much of a problem with it, wouldn’t you think there would be far less people on the planet today? Prohibition of things so central to existence as the right to live closest to the way you want never, ever works. Prohibition of alcohol failed miserably, the ‘war on drugs’ didn’t work, and censorship of P2P forums and other internet freedoms is becoming an inside joke to those who know enough to care.

By: Christina Martin

Christina Martin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:37 +0000

You know, there’s a patient’s rights issue here too. I, as a patient, have a right to choose a doctor who does not harm women or babies. Refusing to allow a conscience clause removes my right to competent and compassionate health care.

By: SC Lawyer III

SC Lawyer III — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:22:05 +0000

I think the FITS argument is the same one made by business owners that opposed segregation, saying it was downright unconsitutional to force service of blacks on people whose values opposed it.

By: Guero

Guero — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:19:47 +0000

Well, Mande, congratulations, you’ve reached a higher level of intellectual dishonesty. In the past, we could write off your mumblings as simply ignorant. Now, you’ve achieved dishonesty.

There are no state laws that require unlimited access to abortion. PERIOD. You can’t name one because it doesn’t exist.

There are two options when it comes to analysis of this ignorance. Simple gross stupidity or dishonesty. Since the law is clear and has been for many decades that there is no unlimited right to abortion, incompetence can be ruled out and bald-faced lyin’ is the diagnosis by elimination.

I am amazed at y’all in the Sex Police brigade coming out of the shadows and at least by implication now publishing your decades-long hidden agenda of outlawing birth-control pills.

Your duplicity still had to be hidden behind the wingnut buzz words of unlimited abortion as a strawman but at least your hidden agenda is now receiving some sunlight. Keep it up, Mande, you’re a leader in the Repugnant Party’s march back into Luddite Party territory. I, for one, am looking forward to your party’s contraction into its real roots as a sectional irritant.

By: q.

q. — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:55:58 +0000

Finally, FITS gets it right on the issues (never mind the usual absence of tact and presentation skills)! However, I don’t know if I would have gone so far as to frame McCain’s response as a lack of critical thinking skills. After all, it’s fair to say that no one on the FITS staff really has to think about much from day to day other than which blog to steal from next. Not to mention the fact that few, if any, of us can say we’ve ever been in a situation that requires such critical thinking as being a prisoner of war. All the same, good writing. I give it a B minus.

~Quintus

By: Vagabond

Vagabond — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:22:36 +0000

Taking this silly logic to the extreme, maybe doctors should be allowed to deny care to homosexuals, or blacks, or Sic Willie. After all, it’s their personal choice right?

All this “choice” argument would do is result in a de facto ban on certain procedures in poor, rural areas. For example, take any podunk South Carolina town where both doctors decide it’s “un-Christian” to offer abortion. The middle-class teenager has her parents quietly drive her to Charlotte or Atlanta for the procedure, but the minimum wage woman with no car is stuck without any other options. So she has the kid, goes on welfare, and we all pay for it. Yeah, that’s so much better.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:46:05 +0000

â€œâ€¦erectile dysfunction meds seek to fix that which is broken, while birth control seeks to break that which works just fine.â€

Brilliant, Mande! With one simple sentence, you expose the twisted logic that passes for morality today. Contemporary liberalism â€“ with its focus on convenience, pleasure, and instant gratification â€“ has managed to blind most people to the truth inherent in Natural Law. So now, a doctor who understands this natural law â€“ and is, hence, loathe to perform an abortion â€“ is considered a misogynist? It’s a crazy world and just getting crazier…

Aquinas, I’m thrilled to find another Chesterton fan here at FITSNews…

By: rick

rick — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:52:47 +0000

Naw, Billary slowed down that path to riches, fame and fortune. Free is a misnomer anyway…it always costs somebody something. Generally the taxpayers, who due to whiners, end up supporting bad decisions….not mention those ugly mornings after hazy nights of bad shit and waking up next to baby’s momma after the concert.

By: Latisha Kirby

Latisha Kirby — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:05:57 +0000

I don’t know why somebody wants abortions or rubbers anyways. Don’t they know you get mo’ food stamps and other free stuff when you a baby mama?

By: rick

rick — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:46:31 +0000

Having spent 20 years in the military…..just as with civilian life, the law has a hold over you only if you’re not willing to stand for your beliefs and take the punishment for non-compliance. A law covering the intangibles i.e. my belief that stupid people shouldn’t be allowed to breed and therefore euthanasa is acceptable, shouldn’t be allowed. Since beliefs are internal, only by the individual has an idea of the validity of the belief. So, since I feel and believe that I shouldn’t have to deal with liberals, I believe a law should be passed allowing me to remain at home and the taxpayer supply me with endless money and women of loose morals..