Comments on: NARAL weighs in on O’Bannon, Shields fight

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:58:46 +0000

Excuses for baby-killing are just that — excuses. No matter the excuse, a baby still dies. It takes a sick person to be proud of 50,000,000 dead.

By: B.iro

B.iro — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:45:24 +0000

Once again I find it absurdly funny that OLD MEN are trying to restrict a woman’s right to chose.

As a man you will never be have to deal with being or becoming pregnant. You will never have to make the choice between having a baby without help or support or choosing an alternate method such as abortion. You will never know how it feels to be put in that situation. Until you do I don’t think you should be legislating against women.

I’m a proud member of NARAL, NOW, & Emily’s list as well as an advocate of Planned Parenthood.
It’s so easy just to label us baby killers but in essence we are trying to prevent that.

Have you ever been in a planned parenthood facility? Chances are no. Planned Parenthood offers gyno services & contraceptives to women that can’t afford health care.

It’s the Republican Party of No who are the baby killers. They would rather restrict your rights then legislate against social programs that would help prevent things like abortion or provide alternatives.

No one should ever be denied their right to choice..

Keep your laws off my body.

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:19:39 +0000

Quite serious. They say they provide reproductive healthcare, right? So, what healthcare do they provide that promotes reproduction?

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:53:47 +0000

Steve, if you choose to stop using birth control, do you need Planned Parenthood to do so?

They should change their name to Planned Nonparenthood.

By: Steve Vaughan

Steve Vaughan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:20:11 +0000

I think that’s why we have ferility clinics, Anon.
You didn’t really mean that as a serious arguement, right?

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:30:05 +0000

Go to a “Planned Parenthood” office and tell them you and your spouse are having trouble conceiving, and see how much help they give you when you want to have a child.

By: Steve Vaughan

Steve Vaughan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:36:17 +0000

BK-Really? I mean, really? “Planning” means you’ve got a choice. Don’t want kids yet? Use birth control. Ready for kids? Stop using it. I can appreciate that people have can have different, sincerly held, opinions on abortion. I’m pretty ambivalent about it myself. But opposition to contraception is just so far out of the mainstream it’s diffcult to imagine anyone holding that viewpoint. Oh, unless like Del. Marshall, you’re an strictly-observant Catholic. I can respect that. But in that case, you’ve got to realize that our system presupposes that your religious beliefs aren’t binding on anyone who doesn’t believe as you do.

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:11 +0000

Anon, I was always struck how their methods of “family planning” lead to not having a family.

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:21:09 +0000

It seems a bit odd to call Plan B and abortion “reproductive healthcare.” Would they call a procedure that stops your heart “cardiac healthcare”?

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:06:37 +0000

The NARAL letter is a lie, plain and simple. The HB563 would have changed the law to read “Nothing in 18.2-72, 18.2-73 or 18.2-74 shall require (i) a hospital or other medical facility or physician to admit any patient under the provisions hereof or (ii) any physician, pharmacist or other medical or health care professional to dispense any birth-control pill or other medication for the purpose of performing an abortion.”

If the drugs in question are contraceptives, not abortificants, then they would not be covered. The bill would only have changed who was protected by the conscience clause, not what procedures and drugs were covered.

By: J. Tyler Ballance

J. Tyler Ballance — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:28:32 +0000

This was a foolish move by the Baby Killers.

Their organization is dedicated to murdering babies, while Doctor O’Bannon is a physician, dedicated to saving lives and healing the sick.

How did they think that by making such a gruesome contrast that they would somehow help Tom Shields?

They would have done Tom a better favor had they remained quiet.

Tom Shields is a good candidate, who if he was running against some lawyer or used car salesman, would have a good chance of winning. Unfortunately for Tom, he has to go against Dr. John O’Bannon, an accomplished physician and a Delegate who is wildly popular among his constituents.

The up side for Tom is that he will have great name recognition if he wants to run against Walter Stosch in the next State Senate election. However, Tom needs to carefully guard his sort of moderate image, in the eyes of the voters. NARAL is not helping Tom Shields; they should just shut-up.