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May 1, 2014

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The Abortion Fact Missing in Media Coverage of Wendy Davis

    • Hmmm I guess you forgot that the FBI has announced they are running a full scale investigation on this girl because she is not a woman she is all little girl. Next time The Wire and the rest go "ga ga" over a new liberal star do run a background check,

    • Media fails to mention that the millions of abortions since 1972 have been primarily in the minority community. Black and Hispanic babies aborted in the 80's and 90's would, if brought to term and born, have represented millions of Democratic voters. Don't the liberals realize the irony of their support for a barbaric act - all for a phony mantra of "choice".....

    • tea baggers are delusional

    • Same moron every day coming on the blog calling anyone who he disagrees with a "tea bagger". Probably lives in a world where that phaseology is common and welcome...

    • tea baggin' aint easy

    • What is delusional? THere have been 50 million abortions in US since Roe v. Wade (1973). About 55% have been to black and Hispanic women.- double their representation in the US population. So using those facts, 27,500,000 abortions have been minority babies killed. A minority genocide? Oh, just call me a tea bagger for bring up the facts and then go back to your normal leftist websites.

    • "Don’t the liberals realize the irony of their support for a barbaric act – all for a phony mantra of “choice”….."

      So, the data shows that the best way to lower abortion rates is to give easy access to birth control and sex ed. Both things that conservatives fight against. It also shows that abortion ban laws have NO impact on the number of abortions, but has a LARGE impact on the number of women who die from unsafe abortion practices. Hardly "Culture of Life" stuff.

      And the end result is irony in that "Pro Life" people cant understand or assimilate the FACT that the policies they are chasing in regards to abortion would actually save fewer babies and kill more women than outright "abortion any time, any reason, free, and on demand" scenarios paired with good sex ed and easy contraception access.

    • looks like God is the biggest aborter ever. when will tea baggers stop worshipping the aborter in chief?

    • tea baggers are delusional

    • This article offers more of the author's beliefs than it does to illuminate the subject matter.

      Mollie Ziegler Hemingway wrote a biased article and she does not speak for American women, who while they might prefer abortion be minimally utilized, they do not want it outlawed, nor do they want politicians to determine their reproductive fate.
      She added snark to the product here and it is crappy.

    • The abortion issue can be the winning issue for the Democrats is they simply hold their ground. The fact is that Abbott is simply wrong on abortion. The fact is that there are 1.8 born people that die each second. So pro lifers have a choice, they can choose to save one of the born babies, children and adults, or they can intentionally let them die and save a fetus instead.
      Pro lifers do not and have never saved life. They have simply chosen to save fetuses and let born life die.

    • Russell Crawford, you are a despicable person telling despicable lies. There is nothing whatsoever about the pro-life position that involves not caring about people already born, nor are the people who hold this position doing less for others in the aggregate than those opposed to them.

    • The state de-funded the Women's Health program cutting off access to b/c the year before, then regulated the majority of abortion clinics out of existence this year. It's myopic to talk about the 20 week ban. The total spider web of regulations, defunding, and mandated wait times have denied access to any reproductive health care for women.
      That is an all out war on women in Texas.

    • Texans especially hate vicious lying hate spewing democrats like Wendy Davis. Texas women OVERWHELMINGLY support Greg Abbott over Abortion Barbie. Texans, including women would like to ban abortions outright. We have several Kermit Gossnell type murderers operating in Texas, and the law we passed helps stop the vile practice of murdering babies AFTER they are born.

      The democrats hate the fact their slaughterhouses now have to meet the same health standards as a nail salon, and require ACTUAL DOCTORS to see women who seek to murder their innocent children. Democrats are evil. Always have been, always will be.

      As for Wendy Davis, she has a better chance of being named the next Pope than ever holding elected office in Texas again! Her Senate seat will be taken by a wonderful CONSERVATIVE Tea Party woman!

      Texas hasn't elected a democrat to statewide office since 1994, and likely never will again. All of us remember the bad old days when the radical, hate spewing, racist democrats ran Texas, and ran it into the ground. It's taken nearly 20 years, but without democrats, Texas is the nations economic powerhouse. THE place to live and grow. We will NEVER allow a vicious Anti-American democrat to EVER get it's mitts on Texas again!

    • Texas Women, it hurts when liberal tactics of over regulating things you don't like bite you in the butt! So sad, too bad.

    • There may be hope for America yet. Maybe people are finally starting to wake up.

    • Russell Crawford that is one of the most ridiculous posts I've ever read. Did you get aborted at birth and still haven't figured it out? Obamacare is the Dem program to kill the living. If you don't think a fetus eventually is born and becomes a person then I'd guess you missed all of your sex ed classes. That is assuming you ever went to school at all. Your statement actually did make me laugh until I started wondering how many more people there are out there like you. I'm hoping not too many but I'm an optimist.

    • Russell Crawford,

      Please use your real name, Russell Strawman.

    • If the Democratic party is focused on helping the downtrodden and under privileged (which I am certainly for), how does one reconcile that with not protecting the most vulnerable - an unborn baby? I am serious about this question.

    • The "God is the biggest aborter" argument deserves answers. Yes, people die before they're born. They die after they're born, too. This doesn't make them less of a person. We all die. Our life begins at conception and our death begins at conception, too. Even if there were no religion to inform us, no revelation available from the Creator to guide us, it would still be wrong to deliberately kill someone of the human species in cold blood who themselves are innocent of killing in cold blood someone of the human species. Spontaneous abortions occur all the time; so do spontaneous births. In both cases, it was part of the life /birth / death / infinity cycle that begins for each of us at conception. Spontaneous abortion ("miscarriage") is an act of nature that says something isn't developing as it should, and that process is halted at a point in growth where it must halt, for whatever reason or reasons. Spontaneous birth is also an act of nature, and shouldn't be interrupted for the same reason the spontaneous abortion can't be avoided: it is part of the human life/ birth/ death/ infinity cycle that we are all mysteriously involved in, and in which human dignity requires that we accept without malice and hatred the most vulnerable of our species who have begun to share that cycle with us.

    • Anyone who can navigate the Internet has access to any information about sex they could possible ever want, and condoms are given away for free in many, many places in the United States, so I don't think the end of abortion will come when everyone has access to sex ed and condoms without restriction, because that benchmark has been achieved long ago. The end of abortion has already been occurring for many years now, as more and more people choose the old school model of "sex education," and achieve happy lives thereby, avoiding the pitfalls that new age sex ed and the chemicals, potions and devices that are required to be suitably prepared for the Brave New World, which isn't exactly new any more.

    • If you are that unaware that women have the right to determine their reproductive futures from Rove v. Wade settled law, then go to college and quit wasting our time.
      Clearly you remain uninformed.
      Oh--that's right. Republicans just killed your pell grants. Good luck paying for college.
      Oh, you lost your job? Too bad so sad. Republicans said it is your fault so pull yourself up by your boot straps, losers. No unemployment for you, And we're getting rid of the minimum wage if we get elected,
      You'll be lucky to make two dollars an hour. That's whay your republicans told you.
      No unions to bargain for your wages? Thank your republicans for destroying unions

    • The right wing is nuts--dangerously so. Be careful, low informed voters.
      A well placed right winger has said "I will be honest with you," he said. "I'm absolutely fine with a fifteen year incarceration for the crime of adultery. It is a crime! It destroys people's lives. It destroys families. It breaks up civilizations. You wanna lock 'em up for fifteen years, I have zero problem with that whatsoever":

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