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PRO-ABORTION GROUPS LIKE NARAL TO TARGET COLEMAN
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 13, 2007
"People for the American Way and NARAL Pro-Choice America plan to target not only the presidential campaign, but also vulnerable Republican senators. NARAL’s list includes Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire and Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico.
'They all voted for the ban [on late-term abortions], all voted for Roberts and Alito,' said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL. 'It comes down to making sure the public knows these politicians played a role in undermining our freedom and democracy.'" Source: Politico, August 13, 2007
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Democrats concerned about abortion should remember that according to Al Franken's writing partner, Tom Davis, Franken was once pro-life.
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August 13th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
So, when someone votes against partial birth abortions they are “undermining our freedom and democracy”?!?!
Where do they find these people?
August 13th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Only a bunch of phonies like the NARAL people could put out CRAP that smears these senators and rely on the fact that the MSM will do NOTHING to probe their STUPIDITY
August 13th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
“They all voted for the ban [on late-term abortions], all voted for Roberts and Alito,’ said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL.
THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
This bunch of baby-killing, immoral worms stick it squarely in their asses. Roberts and Alito are two of the finest jurists ever to sit on the Supreme Court. Thank God we have them.
Maybe these liberal clowns should spend less time undermining freedom and democracy, advancing the cause of infanticide and destroying the fabric of our nation. I suppose though, they wouldn’t be liberals then.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
We must respond emphatically to every single volley they throw at us. Do not sit idly by playing some republican moral high ground card. Stand up and be counted on this issue.
We win on life! America wins big with a pro-life agenda! It’s the right thing to do. Support life! Support candidates that support life!
August 13th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I’m a pro-choice Republican.
Go ahead and call me a pro-abortion Republican. I’ve heard it before. I don’t care.
But to me, I like Roberts and Alito for their strict constructionism in most all other issues. Their opinions on those other issues are significantly more important to me than the abortion issue.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
You damn right Drew!
Ron Carey needs to day: “You bet Norm Coleman voted to ban an immoral, barbaric practice that kills living children at birth. And it’s a great thing he supported bill, unparalleled jurists such as John Roberts and Samuel Alito. These individuals bring an unprecedented level of brilliance and legal judgment to the U.S. Supreme Court. They are scholars of unmatched accomplishment and integrity. Norm Coleman supported these fine candidates, who won the highest backing of the ABA, and of every legal expert. Norm Coleman supports Minnesota values and Minnesota priorities, values NARAL knows nothing of and has no appreciation for.”
August 13th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Republicans concerned about abortion should remember that according to common knowlege, Coleman was once a pro-choice, pot-smoking philanderer. Now he’s only one of those three (probably).
August 13th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Psst. Hey, NARAL: What about abortions undermining an unborn human’s “freedom and democracy?â€
As Charles noted at Little Green Footballs this weekend, “Projection is a harsh mistress.”
August 13th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
MPLSSteve,
Even though I am pro-life, I will accept legal abortion without restrictions if that is what the people want. Both of us can live with that.
The problem is when judges legistlate from the bench.
August 13th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Tom D, many Southernerns were once racist segregationalists (see Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond). But they grew up and realized they were wrong.
If Hillary says she finds abortion on demand without restrictions wrong, I will applaud here instead of calling her a flip flopper.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Dave,
Nobody approves of doctors or mothers who murder their living, fully viable children seconds from birth. Liberal pro-infanticide groups have been lying about the brutality, immorality and inhumanity of abortion for generations. That anyone (and I realize you weren’t) would defend partial birth abortion is the height of recklessness and wrong. Liberals claim to speak for the “voiceless” yet promote the wanton killing of those who have no voice. They claim to speak for children… those their policies don’t kill. They claim to speak for women. Then treat their fertility like a disease. Liberals claim to speak for minorities, then shuttle them feverishly to have their children aborted.
The choice women and men have is whether or not to have sex. Once there is a child, there is no choice. Sure as hell not a Constitutional one.
The vast majority of abortions are given to minorities. The vast majority of women who’ve had abortions, have more than one. That’s serial murder. It’s not safe. It’s not rare. It’s, unfortunately, legal.
Abortion isn’t a choice, it’s an industry… and apparently, very profitable.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200706/CUL20070615a.html
August 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Franken on abortion is coming tomorrow. Bring your vomit bags as his comments are sick.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
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August 13th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Chestnut, you are severly lacking the depth into the issue of minorities accounting for a very large percentage of abortions. They are not targetted, they are not shipped to abortion clinics by liberals. It is not that they are minorities, it is that they are in lower income brackets and they simply cannot afford another child. The fact that they are minorities is beside the point of them getting abortions, it is that they are lower income. This all comes down to the cycle of poverty.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Andrew. No I’m not.
Moreover, Planned Parenthood’s foundation is in the Eugenics movement. The sole purpose of which was to stop blacks from reproducing. The birth-control pill, specifically, was created for that purpose.
Abortion comes down to the cycle of murder.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
abortion is nothing but birth control..a method of population control..eugenics as espoused by Margaret Sanger..and none other than Teddy Roosevelt….and currently Princes Phillip and Charles……… we have a cultrure of killing in thias country because of abortion
August 13th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
dont buy Pampered Chef products..Pampered Chef is owned by Warren Buffet..he has promised all Pampered Chef profits to go to Planned Parenthood
August 13th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Without Planned Parenthood, where are poor women and women without Health Insurance to go for ways to prevent Pregnancy? Isn’t preventing unintended pregnancy more important? Preventing unintended pregnancy reduces the number of Abortions. Reducing the number of Abortions makes everyone happy.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
kathy,
How about preventing irresponsible sexual activity?
August 13th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
I the man refuses to wear a condom and the woman is not on birth control or has sprenicidal jellies, sex should be avoided at all costs.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:31 am
MplsSteve,
I’m glad you like Alito and Roberts. If Roe was overturned by this court, and even liberal Constitutional scholars believe Roe was wrongly decide, it would send the abortion issue to the states where it would be decided on a state by state basis. Overturning Roe would not outlaw abortion in the U.S.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Tom,
Since you like the personal attacks so much, I hear you’re a wife-beating, baby-killing, animal molester – probably.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:53 am
“Preventing unintended pregnancy reduces the number of Abortions.”
If this is the measure, then Planned Parenthood, NARAL and others have failed in every way. Half a million children are exterminated every year through abortion… that’s just in the U.S.
Only a liberal could rationalize that children are “unwanted”. And nothing liberals do seems to be “reducing the number of abortions.”
You know what would reduce the number of abortions? Making it illegal.
August 14th, 2007 at 7:14 am
The more blood that runs in the streets of Minnesota from bodies of dead babies the better!
Hopefully Chestnut’s wife was introduced to a nice rusty coathanger before his inbred spawn could spread…
August 14th, 2007 at 7:38 am
I don’t doubt for a minute, Turkish, that you are sincere. BTW — nice example of yet another myth propagated by liberal propagandists.
August 14th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Let’s give arsonists gas and matches; heroine addicts fresh needles; serial killers knives and maps to victims homes; rapists the keys to girls’ locker rooms; and Jack Murtha a position of power from which to extort millions (oh… wait…)…
August 14th, 2007 at 7:57 am
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August 14th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Making Abortion Illegal will not stop women from having them. Those with the financial means will find ways to have them.
Preventing unintended pregnancies is key to reducing the numbers of Abortions performed.
Comprehensive Sex Education that involves knowing the Physciology of the Human Body, what types of Birth Control are available, stressing RESPONSIBILITY about Sexuality, parents teaching their children about responisble behavior, etc.
Abstinence is wonderful if one is committed to living by that ideal. But without Birth Contol, it would like trying to stop a speeding semi with a sheet of guaze. Doesn’t work.
Conservatives like to lay blame on Liberals regarding Abortion. Before Women had the option to use Birth Control devices like Diaphrams, the Pill, IUDs, etc., they were using knitting needles and coat hangers to end their pregnancies. Women also had back alley abortions where infection and death followed. These were the years from the turn of the century until 1973.
Margaret Sanger was a Crusader for Women and Men to educate them about their Sexuality and how pregnancy plays a part. Very bold for the early years of the 20th Century. But she faced a wall of indifference because Sex was a taboo subject.
As much as I would like to see the Abortion numbers go down even more without making Abortion Illegal, there is still much work to be done to make men and women aware that they hold the key. With all the information out there to prevent pregnancy, it takes a decision to be responsible. Birth Control should not be Cost prohibitive to women. Condoms help in decreasing the spread of STDs and HIV.
If this is a Liberal view, so be it. One cannot have their head in the sand and expect this issue to go away.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Kathy:
“Making Abortion Illegal will not stop women from having them. Those with the financial means will find ways to have them.”
It will sure as hell reduce them. What does “financial means” have to do with it. It’s about personal responsibility… an idea liberals can’t stand.
“Preventing unintended pregnancies is key to reducing the numbers of Abortions performed. Comprehensive Sex Education that involves knowing the Physiology of the Human Body, what types of Birth Control are available, stressing RESPONSIBILITY about Sexuality, parents teaching their children about responsible behavior, etc.”
Agreed. Unfortunately, liberals don’t support comprehensive sex education. They do everything they can to blockade anything having to do with abstinence and personal responsibility. Liberals, instead, work hard to eliminate abstinence education, and do everything they can to encourage destructive behavior.
Liberals teach kids that their bodies are toys. That their peers are there for their self-gratification. Liberals work hard to prevent comprehensive education that includes discussion of mature, loving relationships, abstinence and the benefits of marriage.
“Conservatives like to lay blame on Liberals regarding Abortion.”
That’s because only liberals support such reckless, wanton abortion policies. All abortion, all the time at any cost is the DFL platform.
“… they were using knitting needles and coat hangers to end their pregnancies. Women also had back alley abortions where infection and death followed. These were the years from the turn of the century until 1973.”
Murder is murder. Maybe if we just gave serial killers clean knives.
Since 1973, over 5 million children in the U.S. have been exterminated through abortion. How “progressive.”
“Margaret Sanger”… was a racist, genocidal whore. Nothing more. There’s nothing Margaret Sanger loved more than the master race, and “eliminating” the mutations of the lesser classes from society.
“there is still much work to be done to make men and women aware that they hold the key.”
Now if liberals would get out of the way, and enable honest education about risks, immorality and inhumanity of abortion. Liberals cause is the race to the bottom though…
“With all the information out there to prevent pregnancy, it takes a decision to be responsible.”
I couldn’t agree more.
“Birth Control should not be Cost prohibitive to women.”
Birth control isn’t cost prohibitive to anyone. But once a child is conceived, the costs of murder are too high for society and individuals.
One cannot promote abortion on demand at every and any cost and expect abortions to be reduced. That immoral cows at NARAL have a problem with banning a procedure of violently killing a child seconds from birth is an outrage…
There is absolutely no defense for that procedure. Under any circumstance.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:14 am
kathy,
Your heart is in the right place. I disagree with you that Planned Parenthood is interested in decreasing the number of abortions, however. They are the nation’s number one abortion provider. In fact, the majority of their revenues come from performing abortions. If abortions were to decrease, Planned Parenthood would be out of business.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Republicans have done nothing to truly curb the spread of baby killing!
They need Roe to stand as consitutional – it aids them with fundraising. If they did not have Roe that would negate a large sect of their political base – Those who vote and give money based on a sole issue.
Year in and year out the idea of overturning Roe is brought out to draw in voters and increase campaign slush funds – but once the election is over there is never a real push to actually challenge Roe in the court system.
Back Alley Abortions For Everyone !
August 14th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Yeah, except for that successful ban on third-trimester abortions, the appointment of strict-constructionists to the Courts, and the relentless, aggressive push to eliminate the barbaric practice of all abortions everywhere, yeah, those Republicans haven’t done much…
With thought processes like Turkish’s, it’s no wonder liberals are so damn stupid.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Turkish,
Once again you’re completely off the mark. If Roe v. Wade were to become overturned, the issue of abortions would go back to the state legislatures. Some states would no doubt restrict or even ban abortions. Many others would allow abortions under the current framework. While others still would allow abortions up until the date of birth.
Also, your notion that anyone can curb abortions while they remain legal under the law of the land is simply ignorant. Of course I would expect nothing else from someone so stupid as to suggest that we would go back to back alley abortions again. I wish the people who are so concerned about women’s health with respect to back alley abortions would also be concerned about the health consequences for women who have legal abortions.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Oh no Michael the Democratic Underground wussies are crying foul that Zeebus made a comment about the pipe bombs.
If any of you feel you could use a comedy break today go read some of what is posted there.
Tin foil is stocked heavily in the neighborhoods they live in. 
Still looking for more volunteer’s for next weekends fun at their picnic.
August 14th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Zeebus: Your comment is out of bounds and disgusting.
August 14th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Minnehaha park next Saturday. Be there wearing you red, white and blue. (We know hoe the libs over at Dem Underground hate the US so that should bug them)
They will be easy to find, you know the basic unwashed loser looking types who still have Wellstone stickers on their cars.
I wonder why they always look they you expect? Maybe liberalism is actually some sort of physical disorder? Could it just be that they never really developed like a normal adult and thus have deficiencies they cannot help and should be looked upon as a handicapped group?
I will bring some extra tin foil for them as that is usually what is needed most at their gatherings.
August 14th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
So MDE’s unmoderated comments policy allows a really disgusting comment to be posted by Zeebus. Subsequently the democratic underground is outraged (including poor Ken Avidor).
But none of these so called “progressive” thinkers takes any offense to Al Franken making jokes about abortion and rape.
August 14th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Chris, one of my sisters excercised her legal right to a Legal Abortion back in April of 1979. My father paid for it. I will explain further.
In January of 1979, my sister(17 at the time), delivered a baby boy that weighed barely 29 ounces at almost 3 1/2 months pre-mature. The abby was due late April. The baby was not given a good prognosis, but had beaten the odds. Spent almost 3 months in Preemie Intensive Care. My sister was not married at the time, which still gave her health Care Coverage under my father’s insurance until aged 18.
Still not married, under the age of 18, my sister and her boyfriend at the time had dead end jobs, not much money, and living in a dump. She became pregnant again 2 1/2 months after giving birth. She decided that with a baby who was going to need special care after being released from the hospital that they would have to pay for, no real job, there was no way she was ready to have another baby so soon. Gary was pumping gas and a convicted petty felon at the time.
My sister was in the early weeks of her first tri-mester when she went to my father, who agreed to give her the money for an Abortion. The hospital bill for her pre-mature delivery for Jason(now 28) was over $500,000 by the time he came home from the hospital in early April weighing over 4 pounds. My father’s insurance covered all those costs.
Since then, my sister married Gary, went on to have 2 more children, daughters. Gary went to Trade school to learn Carpentry and Carpet laying. Both their lives turned around and for the better. He has owned a successful business in Northern California for many years now. Good things do happen when a situation like this comes up. Both are grandparents to a wonderful baby boy who will be a year old in September. The mother, my niece, is unmarried, but a wonderful mother.
Do I love my sister less because she had an Abortion, which was her Legal Right to do so?? Or do I love the sister, now dead, who had a baby and gave it up for Adoption in the same year more?? I loved them both equally with all my heart and supported the decisions they made.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Good for you kathy. Abortion should never be legal.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
kathy,
I don’t think you should love your sister any less because she had an abortion. However, her circumstances aren’t unlike those of a lot of people who don’t have abortions. I’m not judging your sister or her situation, but there is no doubt that the number one reason for abortions is retroactive birth control. Roe v. Wade is bad Constitutional law. Many liberal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz and Larry Tribe, believe Roe was wrongly decided. It should be overturned and send the abortion issue to state legislatures to be decided there.
Groups like Planned Parenthood make money off of providing abortions. They don’t want to see abortions reduced – their money would be cut off. There are a million ways of preventing pregnancy and even then stupid and/or immature people do stupid and immature things. The difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals want the government to protect people from themselves.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Chestnut!!!
There was a time when my mother needed to have an abortion. It was in Ohio during the Winter of 1959/1960. My mother was pregnant. Something terribly wrong was taking place. She was 5 months along when she became ghastly ill. It turned out that there was something wrong with the baby and the Doctor knew it through Blood workups. My mother was getting sicker and sicker. She begged him to do an Abortion to save her life. Despite her pleas, he could not do it because it was Illegal. All he could do was give her medication to ease her anxiety and stablize her for the rest of the pregnancy without further harm to the baby.
Weeks later, my mother began to hemmorage. My father was out of town on a business trip. I was 7 1/2, my other sister barely 2. Snow was coming down in buckets. I ran to the neighbor next door in the middle of the night to have them call for an ambulance. My mother barely made it to the hospital, for the baby was coming out of her. It was dead from her losing so much blood. It was a boy. She was close to death. No woman should have to go through what my mother did.
There are times when pregnancies go so wrong that nearly kill a woman. This was one of those rare times when an Abortion would have been warrented. Luckily she recovered. Another sister was born in 1961, two more miscarriages, and a Brother in 1975.
Ever since Roe v. Wade became law, my mother has been an advocate for legal Abortions for situations like hers, cases of Rape and Incest. For merely for Birth Control, no!!!
August 15th, 2007 at 6:32 am
Good for you kathy. Doesn’t change the fact that abortion is murder, and should never be legal.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:34 am
BTW — No baby should have have its skull pierced and it’s brains sucked out. No baby should be put through the abortion blender.
I don’t really much care what the circumstances are. All you’re attempting to do is justify murder of an innocent victim.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:36 am
P.S. Sorry about your mom and your sisters. Their situations sucked, I’m sure.
August 15th, 2007 at 9:56 am
kathy,
Man your family has really had it tough. You should write a book or make a movie — you probably have enough material for a double feature. Although the story you told about your mother reminds me of something I saw on either the Waltons or Little House on the Prairie. I will say that you are a great writer/storyteller. And I’m not saying I don’t believe your story – you’re just a good storyteller.
Nobody in the political world is saying that women shouldn’t be able to have an abortion to save their lives. However, there are a lot of people who think a woman should be able to have an abortion if she feels like it. That’s why the life exception is good and the health exception is bad. Although I suspect that you think women should be able to have an abortion for any reason up until the time of birth.
Let’s face it kathy, times are different than when your mother or your sisters were pregnant. Today, babies can be viable outside the womb at increasing younger and younger ages. The left likes to talk about medical science and being progressive when it comes to stem cell research and global warming. I wish they were equally progressive when it came to abortion. There will soon be a time when an abortion after the first trimester will be killing a life that can live outside the womb.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:15 am
“There’s no greater love than to give your life for a friend…”
A pretty smart guy said that. Clue: it wasn’t John Lennon.
Anyone who kills a child to save their own neck, apparently is incapable of that kind of love.