Absolutely brilliant

[anahata56]

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No matter what side you come down on regarding this issue, I think that this film points out a hugely legitimate point, and one that needs to be taken into consideration, no matter how you feel, morally, about the issue

Comments

[ladyqkat]

Your censorship dollars are at work because when I do the clicky I get "This video is no longer available".

[anahata56]

Why am I not surprised?

[anahata56]

Because you missed it, the upshot is that right-to-life protesters, some of whom have been doing this for years were asked what the punishment should be for women who have illegal abortions, should abortions become illegal again, as these folks would like to see happen.

Not one of them had an answer.

So the deal is that these folks have no problem imposing their internal morality on the legal system in order to make those things illegal with which they disagree. They would have their legislators write these laws into the books, and make criminal those acts that offend their own personal moral code. But at the same time, they haven't got a clue as to what should actually be done with the offenders

[the_paulr]

Here's a link to a Newsweek column about it.

[thoughtsbykat]

Pooh! So what was the video about?

[anahata56]

See my answer above--that's the basic upshot, with added commentary! ;-)

[the_paulr]

Here's a link to a Newsweek column about it.

[thoughtsbykat]

Thanks Paul!

[madfedor]

I forced the link, and found this message:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party.

[anahata56]

Try Griffen's link, downthread.

[the_paulr]

Here's a link to a Newsweek column about it.

[weedblossom]

HATE that I missed it.

I'm one of those notorious fenceriders, as one of my friends calls me (concerning this subject). Morally I think abortion is wrong. I do think it's ending a viable human being. I don't think I could ever do it, I feel like the guilt would haunt me forever. However, I've never been put in a situation where I had to choose; I have friends who have chosen abortion, but I don't know every facet of their life and what they'd been through and what went in to their decision (and gee gosh, I don't think of them as murderers, go figure). And ultimately, I'd rather have abortion be a sanctioned legal act, where women are given the power to choose it or not, than to slink into some dark alley and end up ending TWO lives as opposed to one. I've ALWAYS felt that way. It just makes sense.

So am I pro-life or pro-choice? 'Cause if I had the choice... um. Never mind.

[anahata56]

The point is not whether you or anyone else is for or against, morally, a woman's right to choose. That's not the question.

The question is the law.

If you make a law, you have to be able to enforce it. There needs to be a penalty attached to the breaking of the law, because, if there isn't, then the law is meaningless.

Anyone who has a toddler knows that! ;-)

So if these people would like to see the law reversed, and abortion made illegal, then one would think that they would have such a penalty in mind--but they don't. They don't want women going to jail for this crime--that would be "mean", or "harsh".

One woman said, "Maybe counseling?"

Well, if that's the case, then they aren't thinking about a "crime"--they're thinking about a situation that requires addressing on a whole 'nother level. And that's FINE--I don't know of anyone who would disagree with addressing the problem with compassion and help.

But the stupid thing is that these nutbags don't understand that what they are playing with is the LAW--and the law is about

[the_paulr]

Here's a link to a Newsweek column about it.

[griffen]

New link, don't know how long it'll last but here.

[anahata56]

Thank you!!!

[the_paulr]

Here's a link to a Newsweek column about it.