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Posted: 2/24/2016 11:14:16 PM EDT
Abortion access in the U.S. has been vanishing at the fastest annual pace on record, propelled by Republican state lawmakers’ push to legislate the industry out of existence. Since 2011, at least 162 abortion providers have shut or stopped offering the procedure, while just 21 opened.
At no time since before 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion, has a woman’s ability to terminate a pregnancy been more dependent on her zip code or financial resources to travel. The drop-off in providers—more than one every two weeks—occurred in 35 states, in both small towns and big cities that are home to more than 30 million women of reproductive age. No region was exempt, though some states lost more than others. Texas, which in 2013 passed sweeping clinic regulations that are under scrutiny by the Supreme Court, saw the most: at least 30. It was followed by Iowa, with 14, and Michigan, with 13. California’s loss of a dozen providers shows how availability declined, even in states led by Democrats, who tend to be friendly to abortion rights. Stand-alone clinics, not doctors’ offices or hospitals, perform the vast majority of pregnancy terminations. They account for the vast majority of the tally, which was compiled by Bloomberg News over the past three months and builds on a similar undertaking from 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/abortion-clinics-are-closing-at-a-record-pace |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare.
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I don't care one way or the other but I would suspect future crime rates will increase.
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interesting, I am surprised liberals aren't making this more of an issue for the election.
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. |
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Nazi death camps were an industry too. They produced a lot of medical knowledge and got a lot of labor done.
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. View Quote That's illogical. Financial constraints have never been justification for taking a human life. Preventing one crime does not limit one from complaining about another. You might as well say that if you make theft illegal you can't complain about the welfare the thieves need if they don't have your cash. Besides, they are not being "forced out of business," there is a combination of laws that limit public funding for this private medical procedure and regulations that make abortion clinics rise to the same regulations and standards of any other medical clinic that provides treatments of the same level of invasiveness. If a clinic does not want too meet the same medical standards that every one else has to, then tough. |
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Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. If something is legal that makes it moral or ok ? |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. View Quote That argument is one of the stupidest I have ever heard. There is so much wrong and twisted about that way of thinking, I don't even know where to begin. |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. That excuse was tried at Nurenburg. It failed. |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. So the Nazis killing Jews was not murder? Your statement means exactly that, there is no other way to take it. Care to revise your statement? |
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So the Nazis killing Jews was not murder? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. So the Nazis killing Jews was not murder? It was legal in Germany, so apparently not. |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. View Quote It's good to know that in your omnipotence you can determine the direction a life will take while in the womb. Perhaps you should change your name to God. And yes, this is good news, none of these children deserve to be murdered out of convenience. |
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Yep. Democrats killing their young seems like self-correcting problem. It's a messed up world we live in. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Terrible news for Republicans. Yep. Democrats killing their young seems like self-correcting problem. It's a messed up world we live in. Nope, simply not true. Democrats had the abortion vote locked up because they were the soft shoulder validating the murderous members of our society. they don't like being thought of as murderers by themselves or anyone else, and the democrat party helped with this. If they don't become members of a class of people who associate with what democrats tell them is OK, they are less likely to become democrats for that reason. |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. Killing Jews or owning slaves, yeah those were legal too. |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. Killing Jews or owning slaves, yeah those were legal too. Oh, those things were fine during that time, but in our culture they're not. But we can't judge other cultures by our own, now can we? The Muslims beating women and murdering nonbelievers, that's just their culture too, we should respect that. |
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Welfare queens like having kids to get a free check. Abortion laws mean jack to them in this regard. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. This is my estimation as well. I don't think many people apt to get welfare (or want it) were high on the abortion clinic list anyway. |
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Quoted: By the way, if you oppose gun violence, you can't whine too much about anti-gun laws, can you? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. By the way, if you oppose gun violence, you can't whine too much about anti-gun laws, can you? |
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That's illogical. Financial constraints have never been justification for taking a human life. Preventing one crime does not limit one from complaining about another. You might as well say that if you make theft illegal you can't complain about the welfare the thieves need if they don't have your cash. Besides, they are not being "forced out of business," there is a combination of laws that limit public funding for this private medical procedure and regulations that make abortion clinics rise to the same regulations and standards of any other medical clinic that provides treatments of the same level of invasiveness. If a clinic does not want too meet the same medical standards that every one else has to, then tough. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. That's illogical. Financial constraints have never been justification for taking a human life. Preventing one crime does not limit one from complaining about another. You might as well say that if you make theft illegal you can't complain about the welfare the thieves need if they don't have your cash. Besides, they are not being "forced out of business," there is a combination of laws that limit public funding for this private medical procedure and regulations that make abortion clinics rise to the same regulations and standards of any other medical clinic that provides treatments of the same level of invasiveness. If a clinic does not want too meet the same medical standards that every one else has to, then tough. A church youth broke into the local clinic after hours and did enough property damage that repair was not financially viable for the practice. That's kind of "forced out of business'. I do feel that abortion is not a moral act under most circumstances, but I'm not sure I can agree with backwards methods to close the clinics vs direct legislation by the will of the people. That smells like the methods of the other side. |
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Quoted: Killing Jews or owning slaves, yeah those were legal too. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. Killing Jews or owning slaves, yeah those were legal too. What about Jewish slavery that lasted a millennia? Everyone forgets that And it's still cool to hate Jews |
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Yay! We've taken a perfectly safe medical procedure that has been all but perfected in the 40 years it's been in common practice and pushed it BACK into alleys and dark apartments where MORE people will die and be incarcerated as a result.
Go big .gov, you're my hero! |
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I understand the major thrust of this is simply requiring surgical medical standards be upheld when they are performing a surgical procedure. They (many at least) are truly "butcher shops" which endanger women's health--and lives. Once she leaves, as in crossing the door's threshold, any complications after that aren't counted as "complications" of the procedure, so the incidence of problems directly related to abortion is vastly under counted. There is much more to this than "choice."
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More abortions=less welfare? Lol, maybe. http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/2014/12/CP-Federal-Spending-by-the-Numbers-2014-08-2-anti-poverty_HIGHRES.jpg http://www.abortionreason.com/pics/reportedabortions.jpg View Quote No fair using not-feels! |
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Quoted: If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. View Quote Right, because we've seen a decline in welfare over the last 42 years abortion has been legal. Or are we arguing an impossible to prove theory proposed by the Freakonomics guys and liberals to justify the murder of children? Could we envision a scenario, for just one second, where people faced with the reality that sport fucking can, occasionally, lead to pregnancy and children decide engage in those acts responsibly? And with the firm realization that a child that they will have to raise is potential outcome? Because, heaven forbid, w expect people to be responsible for their actions. |
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I understand the major thrust of this is simply requiring surgical medical standards be upheld when they are performing a surgical procedure. They (many at least) are truly "butcher shops" which endanger women's health--and lives. Once she leaves, as in crossing the door's threshold, any complications after that aren't counted as "complications" of the procedure, so the incidence of problems directly related to abortion is vastly under counted. There is much more to this than "choice." View Quote Purposely ending an innocent human life is not a surgical procedure. Removing an appendix is. |
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. View Quote That's fucking asinine. How about you no longer get paid for being a professional egg-layer? And by that pain learn to stop spreading your fucking legs. |
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I understand the major thrust of this is simply requiring surgical medical standards be upheld when they are performing a surgical procedure. They (many at least) are truly "butcher shops" which endanger women's health--and lives. Once she leaves, as in crossing the door's threshold, any complications after that aren't counted as "complications" of the procedure, so the incidence of problems directly related to abortion is vastly under counted. There is much more to this than "choice." View Quote I've done a bit of research on the issue and that hasn't been the gist of most of the laws passed in the states being discussed. Can you point me to your sources so I can educate myself from your perspective? |
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Quoted: Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. So was the Holodomor, the Killing Fields, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukranian Famines were all "legal" does that make them OK too? Piss poor reasoning on your part. |
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More abortions=less welfare? Lol, maybe. http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/2014/12/CP-Federal-Spending-by-the-Numbers-2014-08-2-anti-poverty_HIGHRES.jpg http://www.abortionreason.com/pics/reportedabortions.jpg No fair using not-feels! I mean from 90 to 08 the number of abortions did go down and the amount spent on welfare did continue to go up. I could probably think of more effective ways at decreasing welfare than killing babies though. |
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So was the Holodomor, the Killing Fields, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukranian Famines were all "legal" does that make them OK too? Piss poor reasoning on your part. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. Well if murder makes other things better then lets have more of it! Murder is unlawful killing, abortion is legal therefore not murder. So was the Holodomor, the Killing Fields, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukranian Famines were all "legal" does that make them OK too? Piss poor reasoning on your part. His screen name is very fitting. |
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A church youth broke into the local clinic after hours and did enough property damage that repair was not financially viable for the practice. That's kind of "forced out of business'. I do feel that abortion is not a moral act under most circumstances, but I'm not sure I can agree with backwards methods to close the clinics vs direct legislation by the will of the people. That smells like the methods of the other side. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you oppose abortion, because of "murdering babies"--then you can't whine too much about welfare. More abortions = less welfare. That's illogical. Financial constraints have never been justification for taking a human life. Preventing one crime does not limit one from complaining about another. You might as well say that if you make theft illegal you can't complain about the welfare the thieves need if they don't have your cash. Besides, they are not being "forced out of business," there is a combination of laws that limit public funding for this private medical procedure and regulations that make abortion clinics rise to the same regulations and standards of any other medical clinic that provides treatments of the same level of invasiveness. If a clinic does not want too meet the same medical standards that every one else has to, then tough. A church youth broke into the local clinic after hours and did enough property damage that repair was not financially viable for the practice. That's kind of "forced out of business'. I do feel that abortion is not a moral act under most circumstances, but I'm not sure I can agree with backwards methods to close the clinics vs direct legislation by the will of the people. That smells like the methods of the other side. A single act of vandalism does not relate to these closings. The local clinic was broken into and torn up by methheads looking for drugs . They had insurance. They are still open. I wouldn't say making abortion clinics keep the same standards I do " back door." They were exempted from medical standards to spread abortion. All medical clinics that perform outpatient procedures should be held to the same standards or nine should. Nothing reprehensible about true equality with no exemptions for pet causes. |
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