Not a Partisan Issue

Life. The Pursuit Thereof.

Its foundational to all the other liberties. Without Life the rest of them are meaningless.
In DC today the Cathedral of Saint Matthew was packed for a service, and priests flooded the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Verizon Center and RFK Stadium. If you were not at any of those places you are not going to get it.
If you lived during the Nazi slaughers of WWII as a christian German just trying to make a living and feeding your family how much would you really want to know about what the government was doing to the Jews? There are new accounts out recently that many more than were previously thought knew of the extermination policies of the government and just really didn't raise a fuss. They didn't join any resistence, they didn't try to overthrow the government, they didn't lobby to stop it. They just let it happen. And what do we now think of those people? We deem hero martyrs of the people like Dietrich Bonhoffer and the priests who died in concentration camps opposing the government policies. The vast majority of people just shut up, minded their own business and tried not to get in trouble or in the way themselves.
This is what those people sitting in cathedrals, shrines and stadiums all across DC and elsewhere are reminded of. Its another anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The count is now apparently closer to 60 million dead little people called embryos or fetuses. Little people with full human DNA, for each of whom its possible to project what they would look like in twenty years. But they all get just slaughtered, dismembered in utero, tossed in the trashheap of history or into biopharma undercover labs for the stem cell research.
When people get the magnitude of this, they can hardly sit on their hands.
If you learned what was going on in Nazi germany could you feel good about yourself if you said nothing or did nothing? Never tried?

The head of Planned Parenthood is Cecile Richards. She is the keynote speaker at a lot of Democratic fundraising events. It is possible to be well intentioned and deeply misguided at the same time. She is incredibly politically connected as the daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards and former Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi. She is the attractive blonde cover to the planned parenthood debate. She reminds me of how good looking some of the Nazi generals and soldiers were.
The democratic finance machine is tied intricately with Emily's List that sponsors and promotes the interests of planned parenthood which is an organized fetal dismemberment organization for profit. The planned parenthood 'agenda' has nearly completely hijacked the democratic party politics financially.

There are things that people could choose that we as a society would not permit. Like-I choose that for your own good you should slice off your arm because the metro is so crowded and we could squeeze a lot more people into it and not have to buy larger metro cars if people only had one arm. That is ridiculous right? We think things are overpopulated so we will extract an entire human being from your womb by slicing and dicing it and suctioning it out piece by piece if it kills you. Crazy, right? Right. And that is exactly what is going on. You shouldn't be a parent then, because you haven't figured out yet how you are going to financially support it.

The structures and systems surrounding birth have to be addressed to make it possible for people to choose life rationally. It has to be done on a much more deliberate greater scale than the Rachel or Gabriel projects that churchs run. If you are pregnant there has to be governmental support for you to have your child. But this runs against what the Republicans call the 'entitlements' mentality so it never gets done. The Abstinence Doctrine is a viable alternative which should be aggressively taught and not defunded. The best way to avoid an unplanned pregnancy is not the rhythym method (people's periods are irregular a lot) It is to not have sex or have really good double protection.

Given that the abstinence doctrine does not persuade large numbers of people and not because they have not heard all the arguments surrounding it, contraception is another way to avoid unwanted pregnancies. Is it foolproof? No, but double protection on both sides of the equasion gives one much better odds of not having an unwanted pregnancy so it should be available (also to protect against AIDS transmission_) and I don't get why the Catholic church is so opposed to it. I don't believe they have statistics indicating that contraception leads to more abortions.

This should not be a Partisan issue at all. It is a race issue because the African American community is impacted three times as hard by abortions in this country. It should be a bipartisan issue with bipartisan efforts brainstorming how to stop the slaughter of the innocents who didn't ask to have their hearts suctioned out of them while happily floating around in a womb.

The US President, Obama should convene a serious bipartisan commission of the best
pro life advocates on all sides of the political divide to discuss the social structures that need to be in place to make the country hospitable towards birth and life. We cannot demonize the other side or nothing gets resolved.

If you were a german living in Germany and saw your neighbors rounded up and put on a train to a place you strongly suspected death was occuring by artifice and fraud on the public what would you do?