Comments on: Updated: The Abortion Distraction (Bill Passed, Pelosi Palooza In Process) https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: robert https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9491 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:57:29 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9491 George Pal Writes:
“Pro-Lifers concerns on matters of life/abortion are hardly a fetish. It’s true pro-lifers seem sometimes too willing to acquiesce to any manner of mischief (or worse) so long as that mischief doesn’t include abortion, the present case a case in point.”

Yes, I would agree entirely. The difficulty for me was that they were suspicious of federal funding of the practice and using this as a smoke screen for the entire over-haul — talk about missing the forest for the tree. I suspect Ilana was mildly irritated and was not really condemning her own reader’s fetish against the practice.

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By: Mike D https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9490 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:57:05 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9490 A “tinker’s toss” about abortion?? I’m troubled that you could be so glib about an innocent life. While I would prefer if abortion was a state issue (it would reduce the number and force politicans to show their cards), the reason is not ultimately some paean to “liberty” or “reason” but God’s Law. Even ultra-intelligent classical liberals need their sins forgiven!

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By: Gringo Malo https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9489 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:42:15 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9489 Thanks once again for operating one of the few web sites that publishes Congressional bill numbers. Brainless is indeed a good description of people more fearful of federally funded abortion than of the federal government’s unlimited power and scope.

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9488 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:57:13 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9488 Ron Paul states that in addition to being unconstitutional, it will add thousands more to the federal payroll and kill approximately five million private sector jobs; just what we need in what looks to be a long term recession.
http://www.house.gov/htbin/blog_inc?BLOG,tx14_paul,blog,999,All,Item%20not%20found,ID=100322_3678,TEMPLATE=postingdetail.shtml

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By: George Pal https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9487 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:21:35 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9487 Pro-Lifers concerns on matters of life/abortion are hardly a fetish. It’s true pro-lifers seem sometimes too willing to acquiesce to any manner of mischief (or worse) so long as that mischief doesn’t include abortion, the present case a case in point. Yet voting for or against any bill depending on its provisions for moral conscience in the matter of abortion is not a small thing, let alone a fetish.

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By: Van Wijk https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9484 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:41:37 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9484 Amnesty’s next, folks.

If you haven’t already, now’s a good time to make sure your household has a good musket, 60 rounds powder and ball, hatchet, and all that.

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By: Don https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9483 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:52:40 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9483 I have no words. I simply have a feeling not of disgust, but of great loss and a revocation of hope.

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9482 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:34:11 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9482 So, our Congress and President are “pro-life”, eh? Well, my boss’ half-kidney is going kaput and since it is ILLEGAL for even to even sell the kidney of a deceased person, there is a shortage. (Simple economics means: no price = no kidney). So if my boss dies from a lack of an available kidney, how is that pro-life?

And what about people who have treatments denied or delayed by a government that has to manage costs? What about physician shortages that usually occur when prices are rationed as in the UK and Canada? What about drugs and medical procedures that are disallowed by bureaucrats – and the victims of those decisions?

This bill simultaneously (1) increases the American subjects’ (citizen is a term referring to free people – subjects are more appropriate these days) reliance on the government AND (2) increases the perilous financial state of that same provider-government. These effects will likely result in a greater health catastrophe.

However, our Republican “allies” (with a few exceptions) have no principles except the acquisition of power. They are merely positioning themselves politically to gain from any political fallout over the next few years.

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9481 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:25:46 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9481 I’ve read comments from numerous sources where girls are chatting about how many abortions they’ve had. There are abortion clinics in just about every community, and that tells me that there’s a deep pocket somewhere. And there’s only one deep, deep pocket we all know about. I don’t have the power to find out what government program pays for abortion but I’m sure it exists and this whole thing is a farce. “Oh but I insured the ‘right to life.’ so all you ‘right to lifers’ vote for me.” Which translates to “Sure I shut the door and turned on the gas, but I was just following orders.” Well, there are a few states that are pushing nullification and the tenth amendment, maybe…

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By: Robert https://barelyablog.com/abortion-the-biggest-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-9480 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:27:39 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=23205#comment-9480 Ilana, Ilana, Ilana

But conservadems and their Republican pals have managed to muddy the voice of freedom with their constant pules for fetuses (not their own), ????

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