Over 3,500 terminations per day, 1.3 MILLION per year in the United States alone. 50 or 60 MILLION per year World Wide.
I am a pro-lifer who has no religious convictions at all . I didn't need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sence of what is right and wrong. You see we were all once a fetus. Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options? What if she had decided to terminate? Would that have been OK? You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories. In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term you can consider yourself lucky. Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you. Don't you think they all deserve the same basic human right, LIFE? I'm all for contraception, prevention is certainly better than termination. Did you know you can get an implant that is safe, 99.9% effective, and lasts for three years? Just think girls not even a show for three years, wouldn't that be great? I think too many people rely too heavily on the last option (abortion), I think if abortions weren't so readily available people would manage their reproductive system far better resulting in a fraction of the number of unwanted pregnancies. World wide there are over 50 MILLION aborted pregnancies each year. In America 3,500 terminations carried out every day, that's over 1.3 million every year, 50% of all cases claimed that birth control had been used, 48% admitted they took no precaution, and 2% had a medical reason. That's a stagering 98% that may have been prevented had an effective birth control been used. Don't get me wrong, I suspect the percentages in Australia would be much the same. Just a lot of unnessessary killing. I am convinced that in the not too distant future, people will look back at many of the practices of today with disbelief and horror.
At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existance. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN GET AN IMPLANT (in arm) THAT IS - SAFE - 99.9% EFFECTIVE AND LASTS FOR THREE YEARS?
ausblog
September 23, 2006 12:48 AM
Anonymous said...
"Amazing, isn't it? Somehow this guy leads a political organization that's so big it needs its own zip code, and yet they don't pay any taxes. Somehow I am not expecting the Bush IRS to come knocking on his door anytime soon."
Actually, Jim, political organizations don't pay taxes, except on interest. The difference with c3's is that contributors can't deduct contributions on their personal returns.
September 23, 2006 5:35 AM
Anonymous said...
"So is there a point to this, that is not hypocritical, or are you just runing out of things to say?"
The point is that Dobson is a very successful and influential psychologist. And Mr. TTF hates him.
September 23, 2006 5:37 AM
Anonymous said...
anonymouse said:The point is that Dobson is a very successful and influential psychologist. And Mr. TTF hates him.
No anon Dobson is a bigot and bordering on kooky in his ideals.
Ted
September 23, 2006 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...
Dobson is a nut.
September 23, 2006 12:09 PM
Anonymous said...
anonymous is really jealous of Jim and attached. It shows in all the rantings and the fact anonymous wants Jim to show anonymous attention every day.
Obsessions work like that. Jim noticed anyone strange outside your house lately or following you?
Anne
September 23, 2006 12:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said... "Amazing, isn't it? Somehow this guy leads a political organization that's so big it needs its own zip code, and yet they don't pay any taxes. Somehow I am not expecting the Bush IRS to come knocking on his door anytime soon."
Actually, Jim, political organizations don't pay taxes, except on interest. The difference with c3's is that contributors can't deduct contributions on their personal returns.
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Looks like Wyatt has found time to continue posting here. Do you sign while working with clients as a CPA as "anonymous?"
Ted
September 23, 2006 12:57 PM
Anonymous said...
Wonder what Wyatt does when gay clients come in?
Whip out reparative therapy pamphlets or whack 'em for being sinners in his eyes with bible passages spouting his bigoted interpretations or both?
Yo, Aus, people will look back at today's practices with disbelief and horror? You mean like on Star Trek when they went into the past and were going to operate on Chekhov's brain but Dr. McCoy intervened? Or do you mean the secret CIA torture centers?
When there weren't legal abortions- there were illegal abortions and self-induced abortions. You don't know what you are talking about.
September 24, 2006 5:09 PM
Anonymous said...
"Yo, Aus, people will look back at today's practices with disbelief and horror?
When there weren't legal abortions- there were illegal abortions and self-induced abortions. You don't know what you are talking about."
There will always be a criminal element. What future generations will be horrified about is the state support of murder of the weak by the strong.
September 26, 2006 10:08 AM
Family Blah Blah puppeteer James Dobson held a rally yesterday to wag a finger at the Republican Party for not fulfilling their promise to the Religious Right.
He booked a room for 17,000 people. Three thousand showed up. Standing before an enormous American flag in Mellon Arena, conservative evangelical activist James Dobson told thousands of supporters he was deeply disappointed in the nation's Republican leadership, but that the nation's future depended on re-electing them.
"I have flat-out been ticked at Republicans for the past two years," he said, to some applause from a crowd that arena security estimated at around 3,000.
However, he said, "This country is at a crisis point. Whether or not the Republicans deserve the power they were given, the alternatives are downright frightening."
Dr. Dobson, who has built an enormous following in three decades as a Christian radio psychologist, is renowned for his ability to turn out the conservative "values voters" who tipped the last election. Dobson preaches mixed message It's weird when the news media use a group's euphemistic self-label to describe them. "Values voters." I consider myself a "value voter," but I vote against everything they vote for. Can you imagine this happening with anything else? Like, if I described myself as "the world's most intelligent blogger," do you suppose that when I did something the newspaper would say JimK, the "world's most intelligent blogger," said yesterday that blah blah blah?"
Somehow I doubt that I could pull that off. But Dobson can. The media give him what he wants without even blinking -- I guarantee, this reporter had no second thought about using that phrase to describe these people.
Ha! This next paragraph is pretty funny. Although tax law forbids Dr. Dobson's Focus On The Family Action, the nonprofit organization that sponsored the rally, to endorse candidates, organizers said that last night's Stand for the Family Rally was held in Pennsylvania because of its high-profile U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Rick Santorum and Democratic challenger Bob Casey. Issue guides being distributed last night clearly favored Mr. Santorum. So Dr. Dobson's warning shot across the bow of the Republican Party was unexpected. Amazing, isn't it? Somehow this guy leads a political organization that's so big it needs its own zip code, and yet they don't pay any taxes. Somehow I am not expecting the Bush IRS to come knocking on his door anytime soon. He accused the Republican House and Senate of "sitting on their hands" on key conservative social issues. He said they had squandered a growing public sentiment that abortion should be limited or banned. They wanted your votes, Smart Guy, they never intended to do any of those stupid things you wanted them to do. They'll do and say just enough to keep your people's votes. But, he asked his audience to consider what would happen if Republicans lost control of key committees on education, the judiciary, and especially, the armed forces.
"We are at war in this country with an enemy who wants to destroy us," he said. He stressed that only a small minority of Muslims believe that their faith justifies violence, "but let's say 4 percent of Muslims want to kill us ... . That's 48 million people who want to bring us to our knees." I love that political correctness, he's not saying anything about "most" Muslims, just 48 million of them. I doubt they'll be offended by that.
Skipping... Rally organizers had split the 17,000 arena with a curtain. It's central sections were packed, though the upper decks and farthest side sections were empty. Local conservative organizers had said before the rally that 3,000 was the maximum that such an event rally would ordinarily draw in Western Pennsylvania. Dr. Dobson thanked those who came for taking time out on a busy weeknight. It wasn't that it was a "busy weeknight," you big excuse-maker. It was that nobody cared. In the exhibit area of Mellon Arena, organizers gave away copies of Dr. Dobson's biography and his book on the debate over gay marriage. Other exhibits by local socially conservative organizations included written comparisons of Mr. Santorum and Mr. Casey, as well as a comparison of Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell and his challenger, Lynn Swann. The comparisons were produced by the regional anti-abortion lobby, LifePAC.
In summary, they described Mr. Santorum as a leader in the anti-abortion movement and Mr. Casey as someone who claims to oppose abortion but has no track record of doing so and who had received support from groups that favor abortion rights.
It described Mr. Swann as "pro-life'' and Gov. Rendell as "extremely pro-abortion." But there was nothing political.
"Extry, Extry: Dobson is Ticked"
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So is there a point to this, that is not hypocritical, or are you just runing out of things to say?
September 22, 2006 7:47 PM
Yeah man, I'm runing out of things to say. In the Futharkian sense...
Oh, never mind, Tish'll get it, the rest of you, don't worry about it.
JimK
September 22, 2006 8:43 PM
Over 3,500 terminations per day, 1.3 MILLION per year in the United States alone.
50 or 60 MILLION per year World Wide.
I am a pro-lifer who has no religious convictions at all . I didn't need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sence of what is right and wrong.
You see we were all once a fetus. Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options? What if she had decided to terminate? Would that have been OK?
You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories. In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term
you can consider yourself lucky. Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you. Don't you think they all deserve the same basic human right, LIFE?
I'm all for contraception, prevention is certainly better than termination.
Did you know you can get an implant that is safe, 99.9% effective, and lasts for three years? Just think girls not even a show for three years, wouldn't that be great? I think too many people rely too heavily on the last option (abortion), I think if abortions weren't so readily available people would manage their reproductive system far better resulting in a fraction of the number of unwanted pregnancies.
World wide there are over 50 MILLION aborted pregnancies each year. In America 3,500 terminations carried out every day, that's over 1.3 million every year, 50% of all cases claimed that birth control had been used, 48% admitted they took no precaution, and 2% had a medical reason. That's a stagering 98% that may have been prevented had an effective birth control been used. Don't get me wrong, I suspect the percentages in Australia would be much the same.
Just a lot of unnessessary killing.
I am convinced that in the not too distant future, people will look back at many of the practices of today with disbelief and horror.
At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existance. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN GET AN IMPLANT (in arm) THAT IS - SAFE - 99.9% EFFECTIVE AND LASTS FOR THREE YEARS?
ausblog
September 23, 2006 12:48 AM
"Amazing, isn't it? Somehow this guy leads a political organization that's so big it needs its own zip code, and yet they don't pay any taxes. Somehow I am not expecting the Bush IRS to come knocking on his door anytime soon."
Actually, Jim, political organizations don't pay taxes, except on interest. The difference with c3's is that contributors can't deduct contributions on their personal returns.
September 23, 2006 5:35 AM
"So is there a point to this, that is not hypocritical, or are you just runing out of things to say?"
The point is that Dobson is a very successful and influential psychologist. And Mr. TTF hates him.
September 23, 2006 5:37 AM
anonymouse said:The point is that Dobson is a very successful and influential psychologist. And Mr. TTF hates him.
No anon Dobson is a bigot and bordering on kooky in his ideals.
Ted
September 23, 2006 11:46 AM
Dobson is a nut.
September 23, 2006 12:09 PM
anonymous is really jealous of Jim and attached. It shows in all the rantings and the fact anonymous wants Jim to show anonymous attention every day.
Obsessions work like that. Jim noticed anyone strange outside your house lately or following you?
Anne
September 23, 2006 12:49 PM
Anonymous said...
"Amazing, isn't it? Somehow this guy leads a political organization that's so big it needs its own zip code, and yet they don't pay any taxes. Somehow I am not expecting the Bush IRS to come knocking on his door anytime soon."
Actually, Jim, political organizations don't pay taxes, except on interest. The difference with c3's is that contributors can't deduct contributions on their personal returns.
_____
Looks like Wyatt has found time to continue posting here. Do you sign while working with clients as a CPA as "anonymous?"
Ted
September 23, 2006 12:57 PM
Wonder what Wyatt does when gay clients come in?
Whip out reparative therapy pamphlets or whack 'em for being sinners in his eyes with bible passages spouting his bigoted interpretations or both?
September 23, 2006 8:15 PM
Yo, Aus, people will look back at today's practices with disbelief and horror? You mean like on Star Trek when they went into the past and were going to operate on Chekhov's brain but Dr. McCoy intervened? Or do you mean the secret CIA torture centers?
When there weren't legal abortions- there were illegal abortions and self-induced abortions. You don't know what you are talking about.
September 24, 2006 5:09 PM
"Yo, Aus, people will look back at today's practices with disbelief and horror?
When there weren't legal abortions- there were illegal abortions and self-induced abortions. You don't know what you are talking about."
There will always be a criminal element. What future generations will be horrified about is the state support of murder of the weak by the strong.
September 26, 2006 10:08 AM