Saturday, July 14, 2012
Texas Law Defunds Providers Who ‘Promote’ Abortion
In an article provided by Kimberly Johnson of Addictinginfo.org, she discusses a new Texas law that cuts funding for doctors mentioning abortions. Whether you agree with the practice or not, I feel this goes too far. Teachers have been banned elsewhere (Tennessee) from mentioning homosexuality. How much longer will we force our personal views on professionals and threaten them for not towing the line?
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That argument holds the potential for a huge Pandora's box...while the law you referenced is just another way of controlling abortion not all laws regulating behavior on a professional basis are for the worse.
ReplyDeleteas far as what teachers can or cant say I think that is also a Pandora's box...the children's parents should have a deciding vote on what their children are exposed to...I have no problem with anyone's sexual orientation but there are many who do...and do you think children should be put in the middle of an ideological battle?
like I said hot topic...
I my self am anti abortion/pro choice...I am strange I think it is a sad practice but it is not my place to tell a woman what to do and I think this kind of law is a legal perversion to get around the fact that something they don't agree with is actually legal
Oh, but, Chris, respect for human dignity and civil rights is not an ideological battle. The opponents only seek to make it one.
DeleteBut, certainly, not all laws regulating professionals are for the worse. But their right to free speech must be respected the same as non-professionals.
Free speech applies when the person is using their private time...IE when not being paid to provide a service...I have clients that say some of the dumbest things but I don't tell them so because they are a customer, and also because I am an employee of a company that pays me to provide a service and that does not include telling their dumb asses off:-)
DeleteYes but if it's their business and their service and their speech...
DeleteYes in that I agree wholeheartedly with you Ben...
DeleteIt goes way, way too far. It doesn't matter whether someone is personally opposed to abortion. The issue is reproductive freedom and the Texas law is talking about restricting even access to information. That's nuts. Having been through pregnancy and childbirth, I feel even more strongly that women absolutely must have the right to govern their own bodies. This law is part of a steady erosion of women's civil rights.
ReplyDelete(As for the Tennessee law - also nuts. No, parents should not have the deciding vote on whether children in public schools are exposed to something the bulk of the scientific and mental health community has determined to be within the parameters of normal. Again, it's a civil rights issue. Do we trample on the rights of gay kids just so conservative straight kids don't have to deal with learning compassion? If a parent wants their children sheltered from having to accept their gay peers, they should send them to private religious schools where they can be kept safely ignorant.)
I agree completely Secret Agent Woman! Nice to have you stop by :)
DeleteI still don't get how women think abortion is good for them. Has anyone looked up the affect abortions have had on a lot of women's psyche? And often even the "safe" ones go horribly wrong. PTSD is common in 65% of women who have had them. Suicide rates are 6 times higher. A shocking 84% of women report that they were not given enough information to make an informed choice about whether to abort or not. There are FAR too many women who don't feel "empowered" by this at all. And I feel that continuing to support this is actually the REAL steady erosion of women's rights.
ReplyDeleteAlso, let's not forget Margaret Sanger's (the founder of Planned Parenthood) reasons for thinking this was a good practice. She said her purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds." And later, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
I'm kind of thinking to OPPOSE abortion is more an act of standing up for women and minorities than to support it is.
I think you've made very convincing arguments. I just still feel women should be able to choose.
DeleteWell, that is the law of our land (that I disagree with) so we'll probably have to part ways. But that's ok. :-)
DeleteHeather hopefully you don't mean you wont be part of future discussions...
Deleteand I am being serious all sides should have a say
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If Heather left, she'd make me cry. You don't want to make me cry, do you Heather? ;-)
DeleteHah! Just saw this. No no. No making Ben cry. I'd be very disheartened if that happened. I meant that we hit a "well, we can't go much further on that one" moment. But of course I will chime in. :-)
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