Pro-choice or anti-abortion?

[angee_is_mad]

I was just reading some of the post about the upcoming Pa elections and I don't see what is so controversial about the potential democratic nominee. Which is understandable since I am from NC.

If he isn't interested in overturning Roe, why should his personal beliefs be an issue?

I know many women who would NEVer terminate a pregnancy, but they feel that it is their choice to make and not the government. Is this the stance of Casey? If so, what is the big deal?

[Spiffarino]

1. That was my take on Kerry

He is personally opposed to abortion, yet he would not vote to let the government dictate a woman's right to choose.

The same goes for Harry Reid. He's a LDS and is personally opposed to abortion, yet I see no evidence that he's trying to undo Roe.

It's a libertarian position and it's the essence of freedom and democracy. IMO it is exactly what Jefferson, Washington, and Madison had in mind.

[Heidi]

2. I don't get it . . .

We Dems need to do something to underscore our common belief that this 40-year-old debate is about choice and privacy. I'm dang tired of progressives always being painted by the right as nutty "pro-abortion" extremists. Having a baby is a choice, just like getting an abortion. I don't have any kids, but I was thinking about getting my little nephew a T-shirt that says, "I was a CHOICE."

End of Sunday morning rant.

[JDPriestly]

3. The issue is not whether he and his wife/

significant other would or would not choose to have an abortion. The question is whether he respects the rights of others to make their own choices about abortion, and whether he respects the rights of others to privacy with regard to sex, marriage and family. If he is flaunting his anti-abortion stance, he probably does not. Isn't he related to the Casey of the famous Supreme Court abortion decision, Casey v. Planned Parenthood? Everyone should read that decision. You can find it on www.findlaw.com.

[angee_is_mad]

4. Flaunting his anti-abortion belief?

the same thing could be said about pro-abortion advocates. For instance anyone who personally has an opposition to a viewpoint is wrong even if that person will not hold others to his/her standards.

Isn't that just a little self-righteous? Has the man ever said that he was anti-choice? That was the point of my post.

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[KaliTracy]

6. reproductive freedom. reprodctive choice. Birth control is being thrown

into the mix as being abortionfacient, and it's important that those who are legislating decisions about a woman's right to choose don't limit our rights even more.

People involved in the legislation of this have to take a stand on a women's right to privacy and patient/doctor confidentiality.

From Prevention Magazine:
Access Denied

Find out why growing numbers of doctors and pharmacists across the US are refusing to prescribe or dispense birth control pills
by Caroline Bollinger

Intro
"In April, Julee Lacey, 33, a Fort Worth, TX, mother of two, went to her local CVS drugstore for a last-minute Pill refill. She had been getting her prescription filled there for a year, so she was astonished when the pharmacist told her, "I personally don't believe in birth control and therefore I'm not going to fill your prescription." Lacey, an elementary school teacher, was shocked. "The pharmacist had no idea why I was even taking the Pill. I might have needed it for a medical condition."

"Melissa Kelley, 35, was just as stunned when her gynecologist told her she would not renew her prescription for birth control pills last fall.

"She told me she couldn't in good faith prescribe the Pill anymore," says Kelley, who lives with her husband and son in Allentown, PA. Then the gynecologist told Kelley she wouldn't be able to get a new prescription from her family doctor, either. "She said my primary care physician was the one who helped her make the decision." Lacey's pharmacist and Kelley's doctors are among hundreds, perhaps thousands, of physicians and pharmacists who now adhere to a controversial belief that birth control pills and other forms of hormonal contraception--including the skin patch, the vaginal ring, and progesterone injections--cause tens of thousands of "silent" abortions every year. Consequently, they are refusing to prescribe or dispense them.

"Scenarios like these--virtually unheard of 10 years ago--are happening with increasing frequency. However, until this spring, the issue received little attention outside the antiabortion community. It wasn't high on the agendas of reproductive rights advocates, who have been preoccupied with defending abortion rights and emergency contraception. But when Lacey's story was picked up by a Texas TV station and later made the national news, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and others took notice."

much more: http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-1-93-35-4130-1,00.html