Science > Abortion > Halliburton turned off by Bush's "Wacky, far right" Abortion Crusade
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24 Oct 2004 09:25:29 AM |
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Halliburton turned off by Bush's "Wacky, far right" Abortion Crusade |
Abortion crusade turns Republican women off Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1334762,00.html
George Bush's crackdown on abortion has inflamed women in
his own party to the point where they are openly turning against
their President.
Fuelled by a fear that a Bush victory in next month's election
could lead to many states overturning 30 years of legal
terminations in the US, several moderate Republican women are
rebelling against the crusade against sex education and
unmarried women's access to contraception.
Linda Binder, a Republican State Senator in the conservative
state of Arizona, is typical. Despite voting for Bush in 2000, she
has pulled her support over what she calls his 'wacky, far right'
position on women's rights.
'We don't want to go back to coathanger abortions... As
legislators, my fellow moderates are feeling the push for more
faith-based programmes on sex education and contraception
coming from the Bush administration,' she said.
Binder, 56, is one of a growing number of Republican women
renegades infuriated by Bush's slogan that the W in his name
'stands for women'.
Mary Lou Halliburton, a Colorado Republican, is a retired lawyer
who worked in the Nixon White House and of the family who
founded Halliburton - the company once headed by Vice
President ***** Cheney and now enjoying a $7.5bn contract in
Iraq.
She helped create a group called Republicans Who Want Their
Party Back.
'Our issues and concerns are everything from foreign policy to
deficit spending to choice to stem cell research to the Iraq war,'
she said.
If Bush is re-elected he is expected to appoint more conservative
judges to the Supreme Court, who will overturn the 1973 Roe V
Wade case that legalised abortion in the US. Federal
restrictions already imposed by Bush on abortions have led to
women being refused terminations after only 13 weeks, the
American Civil Liberties Union said.
'It has become illegal here for a girl to get an abortion without her
parents' consent. You cannot legally get the morning after pill -
even if you have been raped,' said Binder.
She will not reveal who she will vote for on 2 November. But
many suspect she will vote for Kerry.
Judith Allen, another lifelong Republican, has no reticence. This
former Superior Court clerk is a member of Republicans for
Kerry, which contributes funds to the Democrats. It is estimated
to have many thousands of members.
'I just do not have the sense that Bush is bright. And I'm
embarrassed to say that about our President,' she said.
Thousands of members of Republicans for Choice went on the
March for Women's Lives, the pro-abortion march in Washington
DC last spring. A new fashion item was also first seen at the
gathering - T-shirts declaring 'I've had an abortion'. The creator of
the T-shirts, New Yorker Jennifer Baumgardner, has since sold
600.
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Excerpt from "Downsize This!" by Michael Moore
(any emphasis is his)
Dozen's of Right to Life members of Congress want a constitutional
amendment declaring that life begins at conception and that a fetus
is a human being. Most of them used to be against abortions in *all*
cases, no exceptions. Then they modified this to all cases *except*
when the life of the mother is in danger. Others, though, changed
their minds and now feel that a fetus is a human life *except* when
the life of the mother is in danger *and except* when she has been
raped *and except* when she is the victim of incest.
I can't keep up with all the exceptions. As I've said, life is life.
Once we all decide on the starting point, that's it. If it becomes
part of our Constitution that the fetus is a human life, we must be
consistent and treat that *life* the same as all other, more fully
developed humans. We cannot have two sets of standards-- one for
the fetus and one for the rest of us. We should have the same set
of rules for everybody in America, right ?
With that in mind, I have a few proposals I'd like to offer should
this "Human Life" amendment pass:
1. Everyone's age will be calculated from the day of conception.
If we are "human" from the moment of conception, then the day
conception happens-- that's our birthday ! No longer will we
start counting our age from when we leave the womb. After the
constitutional amendment becomes law, we will refer to that day
as our "Womb Liberation Day". I hope Right to Life will push
for legislation that marks our birth day as the day the sperm
fertilizes the egg, which makes us, according to them, a
"human being". And each of us will automatically add nine months
onto all our current ages. So, if you're now just three months
past your 42nd birthday, order the party favors-- 'cause you're
already 43!!
2. Social Security numbers should immediately be assigned to all fetuses.
That goes without saying.
3. Capitol punishment for all women who have abortions.
Right to Life must be consistent; if they truly believe the fetus
is a human life, then they must demand the same punishment you
or I would get if we were to gun down a gut in the street.
A life is a life. To let the "murderous" mother go scot-free would
be a travesty. Giver her what we give Ted Bundy! A murderer is a
murderer. Right to Life has spent years getting the whole country
all gooey-eyed by showing us those pictures of tiny little hands
and feet. "Look, they're human!" If they're human, then we must
prosecute the mothers who slaughters this little innocent.
Thirty-eight states now have the death penalty for pre-meditated
murder.
4. The same goes for the doctor who performs the abortion.
He's even worse than the mother because he's murdering for profit.
So where are the provisions in the Human Life amendment guarenteeing
that the doctor is punished ? Fry the physicians !
If the Right to Lifers are not willing to adopt the above propositions,
then it is possible, just possible, they don't *really* believe life
begins at conception and that the fetus is not a human being ? Could
it be that this whole anti-abortion movement is actually not about
"abortion" at all -- but rather about controlling women and their
bodies and keeping them "in their place" ? Just asking.
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Kramer: It's a pizza the minute it comes out of the oven.
Poppy: It sa pizza the minute you puta your fist in the dough!
- Seinfeld
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CDC stats showing decline in abortions under Clinton:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_fact.htm
Why abortion rate is up in Bush years (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2851283
Christian News - The Christian Post
New Study Finds Rise in Abortion Rate in Recent Years
"According to evangelical professor Glen Stassen, there was
a net gain in abortions between 2000 and 2003."
http://www.christianpost.com/dbase/society/1096/section/1.htm
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