NOW Official: Abortion-Rights Groups ‘Extremely Disappointed’ in Pelosi; Will ‘Absolutely’ be Tracking Final Vote

The Dems, mostly Pelosi and Obama, incompetence with this matter is shocking. Words matter in legislation and shoving something through out of fear of losing power is unacceptable. NOW is right to be disappointed. Good for them for speaking out.

CAMERONSPEAKS I AS A INDEPENDENT MODERATE VOTER I AM PRO-CHOICE BUT IN NO WAY I SUPPORT THIS BILL OR ANY BILL THAT SAYS MY MONEY WILL GO TO ANYONE FOR A ABORTION AND ALL MY PRO-CHOICE FRIENDS FEEL THE SAME.

I cannot believe half this country still supports Obama and his cronies. These people have to be sitting at home living off the government which is basically living off everyone elses hard work! Anyone who is unemployed and wants to work has to know by now Obama doesn’t care about creating jobs. He wants everyone dependent on government.I am still so mad about the way he dicrespected the soldiers killed at Fort Hood ie: his little shout out, reading completely off script, no emotion. It’s a discrace. Thank you this Veterans Day to all our armed forces and vets! No Obamacare…They already messed up the H1N1 vacine…Speak out America

NOW has wasted so much time and money on lesbians and third-world problems, and failed to protect abortion rights. They weren’t caught off guard on this one, or when they supported Obama over Hillary in the primaries. Unbelievable idiocy!

Guess they will have to keep their pants on now.

Spend the money on Birth Control, not Murder. If they are in college or anywhere else they can spend the $ for birth control or do what the rest of the responsible people do: take the responsibility. And yes, I know from what I speak as a 19 year old unmarried pregnant girl. I’m 52 now and paid the price over and over. Pro Choice BEFORE Pro Life AFTER conception.

To the government: Mind your own business.
To the Catholic bishops who are still butting into something that they will NEVER do: Mind your own business.
To the conservatives who still think that women belong at home barefoot and pregnant: Mind your own business.
To the anti-choice people posting here: Mind your own business.
Our bodies, our choices, our OWN business.

I can’t believe that this is happening in this country who exports democracy in other nation but women in their own country don’t have right to what to do with their life.

Wmmen have the right to do with their body as they please, they just don’t have the right to have others pay for it. Let’s be clear here.

“”Posted by: Veronica | Nov 11, 2009 5:42:03 PM To the government: Mind your own business.”" If it wasn’t for the GOVERNMENT, women would not be able to abort their unborn babies. Do they still need to “mind their own business”?

They need to get in the back of the line because there are a whole lot of people that were ahead of you that want her botox face out of office!

A fetus is not the mother’s body, therefore not the mother’s choice. A fetus is a separate person,it can even have a different blood type from the mother.
Abortion is worse than slavery. People think its ok to treat a developing human like property or baggage. It’s not; it’s a person, a very small person albeit, but a person nonetheless.

I am pro-choice even though I prefer there is a guaranteed way to avoid unwanted pregnancies instead of resorting to abortions. i.e. some kind of magic pill (without side effects) to be given to a girl (don’t mean to show any gender bias here) right after puberty which would ensure that the girl will NEVER become pregnant UNLESS she takes another anti-pill (at the time of her choosing). This is a wish and hopefully science will get us there one day.
With regards to funding the abortions with tax dollars, if you are currently taking health care through an insurance company and if that insurance company is covering the cost of abortions, then guess what! you are already funding abortions today. I need to do research on how many insurance companies are NOT covering abortions, but if all of them are covering, then I do NOT see any difference between public option covering abortions vs insurance companies covering them.

Our bodies, our choices, our OWN business.
Posted by: Veronica | Nov 11, 2009 5:42:03 PM
I can’t believe that this is happening in this country who exports democracy in other nation but women in their own country don’t have right to what to do with their life.
Posted by: uma | Nov 11, 2009 6:22:12 PM
Both of you have just shown how immaturity can ruin an entire conversation. I’ve posted on other boards with these same statements, and I guess I’ll put them here too:
Yes, it IS your body and it IS your choice. If you have made the choice to NOT have children, then make the choice to use birth control. Your “choice” is also your “responsibility”. YOU need to be responsible BEFORE sex, so that I don’t have to be responsible for you (with my tax money) AFTER you have had sex. I don’t know how much simpler I can put that. Pregnancy is not really a complicated subject. And for the record, I will state that in the cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother, I do not have a problem with funding for that. Those are not in a woman’s control. She did not have a say or a “choice”. But if a woman decides she wants to have unprotected sex(“choice”), and she ends up pregnant (“responsibility”), but decides that the “mistake” needs to be taken care of, that is an ELECTIVE SURGERY. There is nothing medically necessary about it (considering the woman is healthy). It is not MY problem nor MY responsibility that YOU were immature and irresponsible enough to not use contraception. So don’t ask me to fund something YOU could have avoided by just being responsible.
So, Veronica, yes…it is YOUR body, YOUR choice and YOUR business. And you can PAY for YOUR body, YOUR choice and YOUR business on YOUR OWN.
And, uma, you have a right to do what you want to with your life. You have the right to use contraception, to say NO, to tell your partner to use a condom, and to not get pregnant until you are ready. But I have rights, too. And so do millions of others in this country who feel the same way. YOUR judgement should not be MY responsibility. And I’ll leave it at that.

Shoe, good work! You spoke about the abortion debate in a sane and responsible manner. Personally, I see it as a heartbreaking and terrible reality that if safe and legal abortions are not accessible then unsafe back-street abortion chop shops will come about quite quickly. Creating a law against abortion will not stop them but only make the problems worse for everyone. I applaud efforts by certain non-profits to influence people by a change heart not by restrictive and punitive laws.

There are a lot of hateful comments floating around this article. I do not believe that abortion is the right choice but I would not condemn a person for having one. I do not believe that I should be forced to contribute money to assist someone to obtain an abortion neither do I feel that I should contribute money to help raise other people’s children. In general, I believe that there are to many moochers. If we are going to have a universal health care policy it should cover true medical needs not desires or wants. If you need an operation then okay, If you want an abortion, bigger breasts, etc… uhhhh NO! Selective operations and surgeries should not be covered…at all.

Yes, republicans, if you want to murder Iraqi or Afganistani civilians, you should do that with your own money. Even better, with your own keyboard hitting hands. Lol.

Why not a bill that requires us to pay for the roadside bombs that the Taliban uses in Afghanistan? The result is exactly the same. More dead American kids.

“The fact remains, the clump of cells are not a baby yet”
Wow. I’m just stunned by your ignorance. Are you even aware that the vast majority of abortions occur AFTER a fetus has already developed a heart, brain, fingers, toes, etc.???
The “clump of cells” thing is just a fantasy for those trying to justify the brutality that we’re talking about here.

The money spent on wars was to protect our way of life and defend our freedoms. On 9/11 I asked myself why do they hate us so much to do this. Why,because they love killing and dying. They also want to conquer the World and force everyone into their way of life. Do you want to wear a burka? Do you want to volunteer to let them kill you so they can satisfy their sick need to kill. You should be thanking our servicemen who are trying to keep us safe here at home but all you do is denigrate them. Why don’t you move to the Middle East and tell them your an American and see how long they let you live. I personally an sick to death with all of you Un Americans who seem bent on destroying this country. It is the Constitutional obligation to provide for the defense of this Country not pay to kill your baby. You people are so messed up morally.

Democrats must not be “hoodwinked and fooled” into an abortion fight that does not really exist by the Tricksters!!! We should know that Speaker Nancy Pelosi would never let abortion go by the wayside. We should be smarter than that… AND, we must keep our “eye” on the Prize — and the long awaited and wished for Goal of healthcare for all Americans and lower premiums for those who are already insured. Democrats have a chance to lead by actually doing something good for Americans — like health care, which is tied to the deficit and the bankrupting of businesses and families. We must keep our “eye” on the Prize and not be labeled with the title of another “do nothing Congress”!
GOP politicians and operatives continue to dishonestly and deceptively say that they cannot support a public option, they claim that they want to keep costs down for the American people! Really? This they claim all the while knowing that a public option/competition is the only way to really control cost and to bring about true reform thereby putting a definite Halt to the “out of control” medical costs and premiums crippling people and businesses today, making it harder and harder for average Americans and young people to realize and take advantage of the slowly, slipping away American Dream. One could ask themselves, If you happen to lose your job today or tomorrow in these unstable economic times and at a time when we currently do not have healthcare reform for all, who would pay you or your familiy’s health care costs, that is, if you are lucky enough to be able to see a doctor without insurance? This American Dream, now being called Socialism by the GOP has slowly been slipping away, and is in the last throes of dying, if we do not forge a new path onwards toward inclusion and cooperation for all. This dream of America will die to be replaced with just another third world country — only to go into the history books as another failed experiment.
Again, let us not be fooled by the GOP Trojan Horse “abortion” to distract us and divide us while they laugh gleefully behind our backs as to how they have beat us once again on a myth and an illusion!
(FYI: The Conservative blog “Powerline” barred me from commenting on their blog because my ideas were opposite theirs. This is something a Liberal blog would never do — censor free speach because it did not agree with theirs!)