I dunno, I looked at Hillary's record on reproductive rights and was startled to see that (a) she uses the term "partial-birth abortion" and (b) she supports parental notification. And (here, she said:
"My opponent is wrong. I have said many times that I can support a ban on late-term abortions, including partial-birth abortions, so long as the health and life of the mother is protected. I've met women who faced this heart-wrenching decision toward the end of a pregnancy. Of course it's a horrible procedure. No one would argue with that. But if your life is at stake, if your health is at stake, if the potential for having any more children is at stake, this must be a woman's choice."
Fully agreed with you both on wincing at her choice of words and not being fully comfortable with her candidacy as a whole. That's why I finally decided to come down for Dodd, right before he dropped out. =) (& he was for that moronic, stupid, Soviet-esque border fence idea, which would be a disqualifier all by itself if he hadn't stood out strongly and others hadn't stood backwards on other issues
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Funny, but I've recently changed my mind on the whole parental notification idea. Previously, I had believed it was a bad idea to require parental notification for a variety of reasons (violence by parents, most importantly). However, after volunteering with a group of teens for a few summers, it is now my experienced opinion that 9 out of 10 teens get pregnant because they are stupidly, intentionally reckless, and not because they are ignorant of the facts about pregnancy and STDs, or because they are a victim of rape or incest
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I was in the Hillary camp, myself, until I did some serious independent research and discovered she attends meetings with organizations that I find highly questionably, personally... specifically thse groups have attachments to the likes of the Bush family, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Ashcroft, James Baker, the Saudi King's family, Osama bin Laden, etc. Two examples that are well known are The Carlyle Group and the Bilderberg Group -- organizations that set foreign policy and establish funding for such policies to benefit rich corporate interests, specifically the banking institutions.
Seeing her name running loosely in such circles (not as an official member, apparently, but as an "observer" during meetings) made me suspect enough to look at a list of her campaign contributors as well... Let's just say, I was shocked.
Do some digging on your own and you'll see what I mean.
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"My opponent is wrong. I have said many times that I can support a ban on late-term abortions, including partial-birth abortions, so long as the health and life of the mother is protected. I've met women who faced this heart-wrenching decision toward the end of a pregnancy. Of course it's a horrible procedure. No one would argue with that. But if your life is at stake, if your health is at stake, if the potential for having any more children is at stake, this must be a woman's choice."
So I'm not entirely comfortable with her, either.
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Seeing her name running loosely in such circles (not as an official member, apparently, but as an "observer" during meetings) made me suspect enough to look at a list of her campaign contributors as well... Let's just say, I was shocked.
Do some digging on your own and you'll see what I mean.
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