I'm glad I'm not in America...
Nov. 11th, 2003 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onefixedstarLast post of the day. Check out the picture: http://www.naral.org. If I were a Republican or a pro-life supporter, I'd be after the head of the person who approved that shot. Since I'm neither, I take a certain pleasure in seeing it spread around.
(You can also see it here, where it's larger and probably more permanent. I think the picture should be accessible to non-subscribers even if the article isn't. Although if you're willing to sit through the ad, the rest of the article is worth reading too. The part I found particularly informative was the discussion of last year's decision to amend the State Children's Health Insurance program to include fetuses. They could have just extended it to include pregnant women, but then they wouldn't have gotten to debate about whether pain medication during childbirth ought to be covered.)
The problem for Canadians, of course, is that once they ban abortion in the U.S., all those activists will be facing an end to their hobby, and then they'll probably look north for new targets. Don't think that a ban on late-term abortions is the first stop in an effort to ban all abortion? Take a look sometime at who Bush is nominating to various judicial positions, not to mention his choice of W. David Hager, a pro-life supporter who prescribes prayer and Bible study to treat women's medical conditions, to head the FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs.
(You can also see it here, where it's larger and probably more permanent. I think the picture should be accessible to non-subscribers even if the article isn't. Although if you're willing to sit through the ad, the rest of the article is worth reading too. The part I found particularly informative was the discussion of last year's decision to amend the State Children's Health Insurance program to include fetuses. They could have just extended it to include pregnant women, but then they wouldn't have gotten to debate about whether pain medication during childbirth ought to be covered.)
The problem for Canadians, of course, is that once they ban abortion in the U.S., all those activists will be facing an end to their hobby, and then they'll probably look north for new targets. Don't think that a ban on late-term abortions is the first stop in an effort to ban all abortion? Take a look sometime at who Bush is nominating to various judicial positions, not to mention his choice of W. David Hager, a pro-life supporter who prescribes prayer and Bible study to treat women's medical conditions, to head the FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs.
