Correcting the Left
Posted by Adam Graham in : Daily Response, theMy letter in regards to the Terri Schaivo case was published in today’s Statesman:
I could not believe how far off Charles Yates was in his letter to the editor in which he alleged that the fight for Terri Schaivo’s life wasn’t about her right to life, because if it had been, “We’d spend more money on schools than we do on prisons.” Mr. Yates should read the governor’s budget. The budget for adult and juvenile corrections is $156.6 million, the budget for schools $1.38 billion, eight times what we spend on prisons.
Also, “We’d control guns so kids couldn’t go to school and kill kids.” It’s already against the law to bring a gun to school. I’d also point out the largest number of deaths to occur at a school was caused by a bomb, not guns.
He also accuses pro-lifers of defending clinic shooters, when no responsible pro-life leader supports shooting abortionists.
On the same page, there were attacks on Brandi Swindell for going down to Florida. What really bugs leftists about Ms. Swindell is what she represents. Polls are showing that the younger generation is trending pro-life. She represents the coming defeat for a culture of death as a new generation embraces the sanctity of human life.
Comment by "Radical" Russ [Visitor]
The younger generation has been blessed to live their entire lives without exposure to the horrors of criminalized abortion. Pro-choice is the status quo and all youngsters tend toward rebellion against that. Give ‘em a decade or two of seeing their classmates mutilated or killed by back-alley butchers and we’ll take another poll
Yes, taking guns to school is still illegal. Problem solved, we shouldn’t see any more school shootings now.
The moral contortions one must make to be anti-abortion, pro-death-penalty, anti-gun-control, and pro-war would make one eligible for advanced philosophical yoga.
Comment by Adam Graham [Member]
Back alley abortions referred to the entrance women went through to get the abortion, 89% of abortions prior to Roe were performed by licensed physicians, 5% by paramedical people, and much of the rest were done by people who had physician’s guidance. The old abortionists were actually better than today’s in many ways. They had to be very careful not to make an error or they risked losing their license. Today’s lousy abortionists are defended by planned parenthood and their ilk who are desperate to have anybody performing abortions and will even cover up misdeeds by abortionists.
Secondly, old gun control laws were violated in many school shootings. How much longer are you going to try and pass laws to stop criminals who by definition are dedicated to breaking the law?
Comment by "Radical" Russ [Visitor]
Desperate to have anybody performing abortions? That’s ludicrous on its face. No one wants more abortions, not even us liberals. In fact, we’re quite disturbed that abortions performed have gone up under Bush’s watch, after a steady decline under Clinton’s. Maybe it’s because y’all keep pushing that abstinence-only sex-(non-)education and baldfaced lies about contraception (like saying condoms fail 30% of the time, when the truth is, used properly, condoms fail less than 1% of the time). Girls who get pregnant when they don’t want to, can’t afford it, or aren’t ready tend to have abortions. Work on the demand side of the equation, not the supply. The less girls need abortions, the fewer there will be.
And speaking of passing more laws that criminals won’t obey, how come that’s bad when it comes to gun control, but good when it comes to drugs? Seems we’ve been passing law after law after law prohibiting certain drug use for the better part of a century and done nothing to solve the health crisis of drug abuse. What’s so stunning is that there’s a glaring example of prohibition’s failure in our recent history, and yet you still stick to the prohibition mantra.
But hey, I’m glad to see that the “culture of life” is so dedicated to keeping guns as easy to acquire as they are now. If they’re pre-born, you’ll march to the death to defend them, but if they’re pre-teen, they’re on their own against the loner goth kid in the school.
Comment by Adam Graham [Member]
Desperate to have anybody performing abortions?
–Russ, abortion is an industry. Mark Crutcher released a booklet called “Access”. If no one in the grassroots of pro-choice thought wants more abortions, you can bet your bottom dollar the abortion industry does.
First of all, a good number of abortionists rely on abortion as their sole source of income. Less abortions means less money on the table. You think they want to take away their bread and butter? It’d be the same as saying the tobacco companies want people to quit smoking.
If they’re pre-born, you’ll march to the death to defend them, but if they’re pre-teen, they’re on their own against the loner goth kid in the school.
Actually, it’d be nice if teachers could be armed.