Fifty candidates with little value for a woman's life
I was a little shocked to see that there are fifty people running for office this year in Wisconsin that don't think the life of a woman is valuable enough to protect. This list of candidates running for everything from Lieutenant Governor to District Attorney don't believe abortions should be allowed even when the life of the mother is danger.
Pro-Life Wisconsin, the group that is endorsing these candidates, even seems to disregard the possibility that there could be a situation where the mother could die in childbirth by wording the situation as:
the child whose mother's life is perceived to be in dangerPerceived, not in danger. Groups like Pro-Life Wisconsin like to give people the perception that women just don't die in childbirth anymore and people want that exception put into law so women can use it willy nilly to get an abortion. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Women do still die in childbirth and no one at Pro-Life Wisconsin has ever explained how being "pro-life" means being ok with letting women die in child birth.
The position is no where near to being pro-family either, but that is how many politicians try to sell it. I grew up in the congressional district now occupied by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Janesville). When he was first running for office, I went home to visit my father and there was a piece of mail from the Ryan campaign promoting his "pro-life" and supposedly pro-family views.
The mailer highlighted a story from U.S. Senator Rick Santorum and his wife about one of the pregnancies she had went through. The Santorums were told that the baby would most likely not live once born and Santorum's wife's life was at risk if she carried the pregnancy to term. She had the baby and unfortunately for them, it did die a few hours after being born.
It was a tragic story for the Santorums and I felt bad for them that they had to go through it, but I didn't think their decision was the pro-family thing to do because the Santorums had some older children. Is it pro-family to potentially have those kids grow up without a mother?
How can any politician potentially force a women to go through with a pregnancy that might kill her and call themselves pro-life or pro-family? The fifty folks on that list should be prepared to answered that question this fall from the families they want to represent.
posted by whatsleftwi @ 9:27 AM
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Of course on thing Right-to-Lie will never tell you is that child birth is far more dangerouse to a woman than having an abortion. Yes we all know that the fetus is a life too but this all depends on which side of the scale you are looking at. Many times both the mother and the fetus' life are lost if something is not done.
You really do not know anything about medicine at all -- do you?
There are virtually and that means – almost NO situations where modern medicine leaves women to die due to pregnancy. Fetuses die all the time or, even more likely, a fertilized egg never quite makes it, long before anything will threaten mommy.
Everyone (at least in the Wisconsin Right to Life group) believes a mom’s life is valuable and your rant simply blows by that reality. The medical basis for an abortion to protect the life of the mother is a fantasy of the ignorant, and only exists under very rare and extreme circumstances (where a major unrelated, undiagnosed health defect pre-existed in the mother) does the pregnancy threaten the life of the mother.
On the other hand, an abortion always results in death.
Cliché’s are easy - thinking takes a bit more work, get back to it and perhaps you will develop a cogent thought.
Keep working on it, perhaps one day, your mind will evolve.
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