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	<title>Comments on: Dishonour Amongst Anti-Abortionists</title>
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		<title>By: Obama can&#8217;t be fooled anti-choice activists?</title>
		<link>http://bligbi.com/2006/07/19/dishonour-amongst-anti-abortionists/#comment-3163</link>
		<dc:creator>Obama can&#8217;t be fooled anti-choice activists?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] him over, he also opposes the Hyde Amendment, doesn&#8217;t think public money should be spent on Crisis Pregnancy Centers and would get rid of the global gag rule reinstated by George Bush when he took [...]</description>
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		<title>By: KC</title>
		<link>http://bligbi.com/2006/07/19/dishonour-amongst-anti-abortionists/#comment-239</link>
		<dc:creator>KC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. No, they're not.  They're fronts for anti-abortionist groups whose sole objective is to stop women from aborting - not making the best decision for themselves.  Why else would they lie and decieve women in such a manner?

2. No.  Planned Parenthood has put up a fight against anti-choice demands that women be &lt;strong&gt;forced&lt;/strong&gt; to have sonograms before an abortion is performed and other tactics that are clearly aimed at not at helping the woman, but in stopping abortions.

Seriously.  Consider a friend of mine who had a pregancy terminated in the third trimester.  I forget the exact name of the problem, but he, the fetus, was severely malformed, would've lived a short life of a pain should he have survived birth which would've possibly killed my friend also.  Why should she have been forced to have a sonogram? 

Because anti-choicers hope that such women will see the heart beating and make an entirely emotional decision and not the "informed" one they bray about. 

3. Yes it is.  The evidence is, at best, inconclusive.   If you tell someone they're going to catch a disease that &lt;b&gt;has no cure&lt;/b&gt; if they do XXX - without evidence that such an assertion is true and even &lt;em&gt;contrary&lt;/em&gt; to the conclusions of that disease's researchers- you are engaging in a scare tactic.

4. There's a big difference between being informed and &lt;b&gt;mis&lt;/b&gt;informed. Telling people that mixing pain-killers and alcohol can lead to death is informing them.  Tell them that mixing pain-killers and iced tea will lead to death is misinforming them.  There's support for the first situation.  There's no support for the second situation - which is where the whole abortion-equals-breast cancer falls under.

5. I'd like to see some evidence supporting this assertion in regards to &lt;a href="http://www.issues2000.org/CA/Henry_Waxman_Abortion.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;Rep. Waxman&lt;/a&gt;. As far as I can tell, he has never voted yes on any legislation put through by anti-choicers .  He voted against making it a crime to transport minors across state lines.  He voted against tieing foreign aid to pro-birth policies.  He is the one behind the above report exposing CPCs for the liars that they are.   I'd say that falls under being "pro-woman".</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. No, they&#8217;re not.  They&#8217;re fronts for anti-abortionist groups whose sole objective is to stop women from aborting - not making the best decision for themselves.  Why else would they lie and decieve women in such a manner?</p>
<p>2. No.  Planned Parenthood has put up a fight against anti-choice demands that women be <strong>forced</strong> to have sonograms before an abortion is performed and other tactics that are clearly aimed at not at helping the woman, but in stopping abortions.</p>
<p>Seriously.  Consider a friend of mine who had a pregancy terminated in the third trimester.  I forget the exact name of the problem, but he, the fetus, was severely malformed, would&#8217;ve lived a short life of a pain should he have survived birth which would&#8217;ve possibly killed my friend also.  Why should she have been forced to have a sonogram? </p>
<p>Because anti-choicers hope that such women will see the heart beating and make an entirely emotional decision and not the &#8220;informed&#8221; one they bray about. </p>
<p>3. Yes it is.  The evidence is, at best, inconclusive.   If you tell someone they&#8217;re going to catch a disease that <b>has no cure</b> if they do XXX - without evidence that such an assertion is true and even <em>contrary</em> to the conclusions of that disease&#8217;s researchers- you are engaging in a scare tactic.</p>
<p>4. There&#8217;s a big difference between being informed and <b>mis</b>informed. Telling people that mixing pain-killers and alcohol can lead to death is informing them.  Tell them that mixing pain-killers and iced tea will lead to death is misinforming them.  There&#8217;s support for the first situation.  There&#8217;s no support for the second situation - which is where the whole abortion-equals-breast cancer falls under.</p>
<p>5. I&#8217;d like to see some evidence supporting this assertion in regards to <a href="http://www.issues2000.org/CA/Henry_Waxman_Abortion.htm" rel="nofollow">Rep. Waxman</a>. As far as I can tell, he has never voted yes on any legislation put through by anti-choicers .  He voted against making it a crime to transport minors across state lines.  He voted against tieing foreign aid to pro-birth policies.  He is the one behind the above report exposing CPCs for the liars that they are.   I&#8217;d say that falls under being &#8220;pro-woman&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: jane lake</title>
		<link>http://bligbi.com/2006/07/19/dishonour-amongst-anti-abortionists/#comment-238</link>
		<dc:creator>jane lake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1) That is 23 centers out of over 4000 centers mostly staffed by volunteers with the sole objective of helping women in a very difficult situation.

2)Planned Parenthood has an even worse record of misinforming women, preventing them from having sonograms, promoting their profit making abortion mills.

3)Telling a woman there is a "possibility" of increased risk of breast cancer" is not a scare tactic. Valid studies have shown and the physical nature of breast cell transformation during pregnancy support the "possibility".

4) Have you looked at the inserts in any drug you take nowadays? You may get cancer, heart disease or die, but people still take the drug. The difference is that they are informed consumers.

5)This "study" is just political manipulation by Waxman. He doesn't care about women. I hope you do!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1) That is 23 centers out of over 4000 centers mostly staffed by volunteers with the sole objective of helping women in a very difficult situation.</p>
<p>2)Planned Parenthood has an even worse record of misinforming women, preventing them from having sonograms, promoting their profit making abortion mills.</p>
<p>3)Telling a woman there is a &#8220;possibility&#8221; of increased risk of breast cancer&#8221; is not a scare tactic. Valid studies have shown and the physical nature of breast cell transformation during pregnancy support the &#8220;possibility&#8221;.</p>
<p>4) Have you looked at the inserts in any drug you take nowadays? You may get cancer, heart disease or die, but people still take the drug. The difference is that they are informed consumers.</p>
<p>5)This &#8220;study&#8221; is just political manipulation by Waxman. He doesn&#8217;t care about women. I hope you do!</p>
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