tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1315362208709650810.post892435530167839214..comments2024-03-28T08:00:17.624-04:00Comments on NewGathering: Bernie, the Dems, abortion, and povertyDavid Nickolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17769931102661478298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1315362208709650810.post-90158023956786300212017-04-24T19:50:43.569-04:002017-04-24T19:50:43.569-04:00This is what fuels pro-choice .... the fact that t...This is what fuels pro-choice .... the fact that to pro-life people, embryos and zygotes will always be more important than actual women and children.crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1315362208709650810.post-88037878225232922322017-04-24T18:08:54.177-04:002017-04-24T18:08:54.177-04:00If you're talking about Heath Mello, he seems ...If you're talking about Heath Mello, he seems fairly liberal on social safety net issues. Not that it's going to matter much if he's mayor of Omaha. It's pretty sad if supporting those in poverty means that you have to support the taking of any life.Katherine Nielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08309113327087187334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1315362208709650810.post-11608634409566365432017-04-24T17:40:19.695-04:002017-04-24T17:40:19.695-04:00It would be nice if we lived in a society where th...It would be nice if we lived in a society where there was adequate financial support for everyone, but we don't. We also don't live in a society where cheap and effective contraception, like the IUD, is available to everyone who wants and needs it.<br /><br />Meanwhile, people who are denied abortions become poorer, and Bernie and Perez are backing a pro-life abortion-antagonistic candidate. This goes against the DNC's stated support for women's full reproductive health care, and it goes against support for those in poverty.crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1315362208709650810.post-88847870326054363552017-04-24T17:23:34.985-04:002017-04-24T17:23:34.985-04:00"Reproductive healthcare" covers a lot o..."Reproductive healthcare" covers a lot of territory. One can support availability and access to birth control without supporting abortion. And one can support the development of a just society, as cited by David above, to mitigate the need for abortions due to poverty.Katherine Nielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08309113327087187334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1315362208709650810.post-48370875903953186922017-04-24T15:55:42.374-04:002017-04-24T15:55:42.374-04:00[I]t is the task of law to pursue a reform of soci...[I]t is the task of law to pursue a reform of society and of conditions of life in all milieux, starting with the most deprived, so that always and everywhere it may be possible to give every child coming into this world a welcome worthy of a person. Help for families and for unmarried mothers, assured grants for children, a statute for illegitimate children and reasonable arrangements for adoption - a whole positive policy must be put into force so that there will always be a concrete, honorable and possible alternative to abortion. [From <i>Declaration on Procured Abortion,</i> Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, November 18, 1974, Paragraph 23] <br />David Nickolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17769931102661478298noreply@blogger.com