Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

The Off-Topic forum for anything non-LDS related, such as sports or politics. Rated PG through PG-13.
Post Reply
_DoubtingThomas
_Emeritus
Posts: 4551
Joined: Thu Sep 01, 2016 7:04 am

Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

Post by _DoubtingThomas »

Washington Post reports

Gabbard said the necessity of “safe, legal and rare” abortions was one of the rare things on which she agreed with Hillary Clinton. However, she said there should be restrictions in place so that abortions were not allowed in the third trimester “unless the life or severe health consequences of a woman are at risk."

Gabbard's position is very popular and that is what most Americans really want according to scientific polls.
_Gunnar
_Emeritus
Posts: 6315
Joined: Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:17 am

Re: Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

Post by _Gunnar »

You can count me as one of those Americans who fully endorses that point of view. The current Republican denial and belittlement of women's rights to have the deciding say in health issues concerning their own bodies is one of the most deplorable things about them. Particularly deplorable and incredibly offensive and stupid is the legislation passed in a few extreme red states in which women can be indicted and even arrested for suspicion of murder merely for having a miscarriage, which can occur in as much as a quarter of all pregnancies! These laws are being justly challenged in court now, but apparently the hope is that the current Supreme Court will reverse Roe vs. Wade and uphold these laws when eventually appealed to our highest court.

Imagine the injustice and cruelty of blaming and even jailing a woman, already emotionally devastated by an unwanted miscarriage, for having somehow caused the miscarriage!
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
_Doctor CamNC4Me
_Emeritus
Posts: 21663
Joined: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:02 am

Re: Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

Post by _Doctor CamNC4Me »

I'm ok with this.

- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
_Dr. Shades
_Emeritus
Posts: 14117
Joined: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:07 pm

Re: Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

Post by _Dr. Shades »

DoubtingThomas wrote:Gabbard's position is very popular and that is what most Americans really want according to scientific polls.

Umm, that's fine and dandy and all, but this is a discussion board, not a "post-the-news" board. So, what's your take on the matter?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"

--Louis Midgley
_Icarus
_Emeritus
Posts: 1541
Joined: Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:01 pm

Re: Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

Post by _Icarus »

DoubtingThomas wrote:Washington Post reports

Gabbard said the necessity of “safe, legal and rare” abortions was one of the rare things on which she agreed with Hillary Clinton. However, she said there should be restrictions in place so that abortions were not allowed in the third trimester “unless the life or severe health consequences of a woman are at risk."

Gabbard's position is very popular and that is what most Americans really want according to scientific polls.


In other words, she's for what's already happening as it is.
"One of the hardest things for me to accept is the fact that Kevin Graham has blonde hair, blue eyes and an English last name. This ugly truth blows any arguments one might have for actual white supremacism out of the water. He's truly a disgrace." - Ajax
_Dr. Shades
_Emeritus
Posts: 14117
Joined: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:07 pm

Re: Tulsi Gabbard makes a lot of sense on abortion

Post by _Dr. Shades »

Icarus wrote:
DoubtingThomas wrote:Gabbard's position is very popular and that is what most Americans really want according to scientific polls.

In other words, she's for what's already happening as it is.

Whew! I'm glad we got that straightened out. I was worried sick over what Tulsi Gabbard's position on this particular topic is.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"

--Louis Midgley
Post Reply