Yes, for the same reason why you shouldn't euthanize old people. My grandmother was very ill towards the end of her life, and my parents and I took care of her. My folks tried to do it themselves, but they're senior citizens in their own right, and mom couldn't handle it. They could've put her in a nursing home (thus hastening her death and taking all the emotional pain and physical exhaustion brought by caring for a bed-ridden parent), but instead, I moved back in and took "the night shift".

When things were at their most difficult, we would go to bed at night hoping for EVERYONE's sake that Nana would just slip away in the night, but we weren't that lucky. Taking care of her was purely a labor of love, and respect for her as a human being. We each probably erased 5 years off our own lifespans in that time.

I realize there's a component to the mother/child relationship that I'll never understand, so the parallel might not be accurate. But I say we should give human life the respect it deserves, and not be too cavalier about ending it just to save ourselves heartache, pain, or other misfortunes.

So does that mean we should not respect the life and decisions of the mother-figure, herself? To respect life is to respect the choices they've made, whether good or bad. It's a question of philosophy and beliefs.

If there was perhaps a religion that had no say in this debate, one that even stated that it would agree to abortion, would this debate be thought of as prejudice? To deny rights that a religion and/or their personal beliefs?

Who says that they are not respecting life? Is mercy in guarunteeing them no pain considered wrong?

Well, the abortion debate in Kansas has certainly heated up with this . I would bet that even many staunch pro-lifers would balk at what is being attempted here.

So he's trying to force his way into their medical records to protect them.

So is he looking for victims or potential defendents?

You know, after looking at how the law may be abused by an overly zealous AG, I may actually be forced to admit that Rush Limbaugh is right about something . Of course, in Rush's case, he pretty much admitted to being an addict.

Now from this document (PDF) from health and human services, it appears that the AG would require victims consent to release documents related to an abuse investigation, so his first argument that he is seeking these womens information to protect them won't fly.

This document from the same source actually says that providers can be forced to give up the information.

Yes but if I step on an acorn, I kill an acorn, not an oak tree.

Well, your durn tootin. All life is precious so the Attorney General should track these women down and kill them. :rolleyes:

I don't think he wants to murder them. A scarlet letter and some time in the stocks would probably suffice for him. Of course, he could just find the ones who were raped and have them relive it over and over in a courtroom.

I don't believe he won't persecute to the best of his ability, otherwise he wouldn't have started this crap. :(

Don't you have a way with words.

Sad, eloquent, true.

This is just peachy. Imagine all of the new psuedo-science that can be included here. Abortion causes cancer, acne, hair loss?

severe cramps? infections that may cause sterility? uncontrollable hemorraging? death?

Praise Jesus and Pass the Ammunition
 

Controversial Wichita abortionist Dr George Tiller was shot to death today...at church. This will undoubtedly turn out to be a crime committed by someone who reasoned that they were saving the lives of future unborn children. Therefore, it can be assumed that "Thou shalt not kill" is arbitrary, even to the religious. Since they've killed Dr Tiller, doesn't that pretty much follow that it is okay to kill anyone, at any time, for any reason, as long as you think it is a really, really *good* reason?

[extreme sarcasm] Praise God. [/extreme sarcasm] :headshake

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/...ler_shooting_3

WICHITA, Kan. – Media outlets are reporting that late-term abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot and killed at his church in Wichita, Kan.

Anonymous police sources told The Wichita Eagle and other media that the 67-year-old doctor was killed Sunday morning at Reformation Lutheran Church.

Police spokesman Gordon Bassham would not confirm the victim's identity pending notification of relatives but said a 67-year-old "high-profile individual in the community" was shot and killed.

Tiller has been among the few U.S. physicians performing late-term abortions. His clinic has repeatedly been the site of protests for about two decades and he was shot and wounded by a protester in 1993.

They caught him..

...or detain them indefinitely. Same rationality.

Abortion doesn't kill people. In fact not a single human death has ever occurred in the history of all abortions other than the deaths of young girls getting botched back alley abortions from butchers because some jackasses wanted to violate the fundamental right of all women to get an abortion if they so choose by making an illegitimate law.

I could care less at which point human life begins. I care about when human rights begin, and those begin at birth and not a second before.

It wouldn't matter if a fully-sentient human being was inside the body of another and they were capable of speech and begged for their life. As long as they reside within the body of another person (regardless of how they got there...it doesn't matter why someone got pregnant) and they have never been born (this prevents the idiots from using an example of someone kidnapping someone and sewing them into their own body)... they have ZERO human rights.

Killing any organism within the confines of your own body is not murder. It doesn't matter if it's a tumor, a tapeworm, or even a fully sentient human being. It has no rights.

We each have SOLE DOMINION over our own body and its contents. Our decisions as to what will or won't live within the confines of our body is not to be questioned any more than someone would question god as to why babies die. We are the GOD of our own body and no other person, group of people, or government has any say in what we do with the contents of our body.

Once again we see how the hypocritical right-wing zealots and religious wing nuts claiming to respect the "sanctity of life" don't really care about the sanctity of human life if that human happens to be an abortion doctor helping women with a medical procedure that they have every right to get.

No person, group of people (regardless of their number) or government has any authority whatsoever to forcibly prevent or punish an abortion any more than a single woman would have the authority to force all other women to get an abortion.

Supposedly this guy has a history of mental illness too.