BK>>Funny, all this talk against abortion, yet not one word about   
   BK>>medical care after the child is born, about insuring the child   
   BK>>has a decent life.   
      
    TR> Insuring each child `has a decent life' is not the   
    TR> responsibility of the taxpayer. That burden falls on the   
    TR> shoulders of the `parents'of each child.   
      
    The Catholic Church says otherwise, which is why the Catholic   
    church has the moral high ground on this issue.   
      
    OTOH, where the hell do you get off deciding what a pregnant   
    woman should do if you won't take any responsibility for the   
    result?   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> But Lincoln was right in HIS way as well; for those who   
    TR> view such things as abortion from a strict religious point   
    TR> of view, the choice is between good and evil. And, to a   
    TR> practicing, devout Christian believer....there really was   
    TR> NO choice, only obedience to Christian, biblical teachings.   
    TR> The Commandment against murder is un-ambiguous, and clearly   
    TR> a child, unborn or otherwise, is protected under that   
    TR> Commandment:   
      
    As is Christ's instruction to feed the hungry, house the   
    homeless etc.   
      
    TR> Planned Parenthood Targets Black Women - Star Parker   
      
    TR> May 06, 2013   
      
   ...   
      
    TR> Yet, once again, those standards have gotten lost. And,   
    TR> once again, black Americans are bearing the brunt of the   
    TR> cost of a nation that has lost its moral rudder. This time   
    TR> as result of wantonly legal and available abortion.   
      
    Where are black women being forced to have abortions? Yet they   
    are compelled by economic circumstances all too often.   
      
    TR> According to the Centers for Disease Control, blacks   
    TR> accounted for 35.4 percent of abortions performed in 2009,   
    TR> despite representing, according to the 2010 census, just   
    TR> 13.6 percent of the US population.   
      
    Being poor does tend to lead that way.   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider,   
    TR> systematically targets minority women for abortion.   
      
    More like the right wing targets black women for poverty, and   
    planned parenthood just locates clinics near those who need   
    their service most.   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> Sanger, whose racist and eugenicist views are well   
    TR> documented, replied, "I believe the biggest sin in the   
    TR> world is parents bringing children into the world that have   
    TR> disease from their parents, that have no chance in the   
    TR> world to be a human being practically. Delinquents,   
    TR> prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they are   
    TR> born."�   
      
    Opinions very similar to that are repeated frequently when   
    condemning unmarried women, and all too often black women are   
    target for that condemnation, all too often by commentators on   
    the right.   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> You'd think he was addressing Ronald McDonald House, not an   
    TR> organization that provided 333,964 abortions last year,   
    TR> disproportionately on black women.   
      
    TR> Black unemployment and poverty rates are almost double the   
    TR> national averages. I suppose Planned Parenthood, with   
    TR> support from our president, and $542 million in taxpayer   
    TR> funds, feels it is doing its part to solve this problem.   
      
    It is quite clear the right wing in America is doing nothing to   
    solve this problem.   
      
    BTW, I pointed these unemployment and poverty rates out to you   
    years ago.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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