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Edited on Fri Aug-25-06 02:50 AM by MysteryToMyself
in the beginning post. A baby should be born into a world that gives them a fighting chance at living a good, decent life.
My take on it is that an embryo or a fetus is the potential for life. It is loaded with dna. What we need to do is figure out, for those who want to know, is at what stage "potential for life" becomes "life".
To simplify it, a chicken egg is not a chicken, but it has the potential to be a chicken. When does a fertilized chicken egg become a chicken?
I googled "Baby development pictures" and found out interesting things. For several weeks there is no way to tell the difference between a mouse embryo and a human embryo. There is no brain waves in an unborn until 6 months.
You can be a Democrat without having an abortion. The right to choose is really leaving it up to each female to decide. There are worse things than having an abortion. For example sending young men to wars without the right equipment and sending our soldiers to unnecessary wars. The republicans will never outlaw abortion, because then they couldn't trot abortion out and thump the Democrats over the head with it during election time. A lot of republican women have abortions. They hide it like a cat hides it's crap, but hey, who are we to judge. The bible says, "Thou shall not judge."
The thing I don't like about the attitude in congress and the senate is that young mothers should work even if they are still living in poverty while working. They insist mothers leave their tiny babies and children to work, causing them to leave the defenseless babies with God knows what kind of day care. Sometimes it is with people that don't care about them and even abuse them mentally, physically or sexually. (Thanks, Bill & DLC Democrats.)
It galls me when I see our representatives setting on their arses, saying, "Welfare didn't work." It worked better than we the people supporting the men in suits on Capitol hill that don't listen to us but listen to lobbyists. The "white house capitol hill crowd" don't work...they set around visiting and thinking up what else they can do for the corporations, even giving them corporate welfare.
We don't have capitalism in this country. We have communism in reverse. I call it ComCapitalism. Instead of the poor getting more from the rich, under this "gang of thieves administration" we have the rich taking from the middle class and the poor. They use the elderly's surplus Social Security savings to pay expenses, while giving tax cuts to the rich. They give earned income refunded on their taxes to the underpaid worker, instead of making the corporations pay higher wages. They give handouts to the airlines and the oil companies and funneled our excess Medicare to the insurance and pharmacies with no bid charges, putting it on the verge of bankruptcy. Workers have paid a lot of money into Medicare so they would have reasonable health care when they retire. Instead, we are told to expect $300,000 medical out of pocket costs, even with all the Medicare insurance.
Instead of raising standards in other countries for the average person, these "leaders" are lowering our standard of living to the worst in other countries.
We need better day care and we need better wages for women who work. We need the Bushites and the DLC enablers, to quit trying to beat us out of Social Security and we need our own medicare insurance, pooled from our medicare payments and we need to get off the "profit from the elderly" gig. We, the middle class and poor, need a lot more of everything than we are getting, especially fiscal fairness.
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