Comments on: Newsworthy 11/11/08 http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/ The Diary of a Midwife Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ritsumei http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/comment-page-1/#comment-241828 Ritsumei Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:44:08 +0000 http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/#comment-241828 I've posted a response to the video <a href="http://ritsumeithoughts.blogspot.com/2008/12/response.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I’ve posted a response to the video here.

]]> By: Ritsumei http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/comment-page-1/#comment-241652 Ritsumei Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:55:05 +0000 http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/#comment-241652 OK, I'm in the minority on this blog, but I'm not seeing the problems with either loosing Affirmative Action (which is legalized discrimination, IMO) or with keeping the conscience laws. Just because someone is <i>licensed</i> to do something doesn't mean that they should be <i>required</i> to do something. I understand that you favor choice laws, but I don't understand why you'd want to force someone to commit what is, in their opinion, murder. These health providers have to be able to live with themselves at night. I doubt that there is going to be any lack of doctors willing to perform abortions the way things currently are. But there may be a distinct lack of hospitals if Obama goes through with it: as I understand it, the Catholic church, owner/operator of all those St. Elizableth/St. Mary/ect hospitals says they will close their doors rather than provide those services. Is it really a good idea to force this particular issue? The religious hospitals are a huge part of our health care system! According to this <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205326/" rel="nofollow">Slate article</a>, it'd be about 1/3 of the hospitals in the nation, many of them in, according to Slate, in "many neighborhoods that are not exactly otherwise overprovided for." Do you really want to go there?? Is it really so bad for minors, who can't have Tylenol at school without a permission slip, to talk such an important decision over with the folks? Is it really not enough that Planned Parenthood does abortion-on-demand already, now we want to make everyone do it, regardless of their own code of ethics? How is this freedom? The federal government shouldn't be messing around in either abortion or affirmative action anyway. When the Founders wrote the Constitution they gave the federal government a very short list of responsibilities. Then they said that every other power not specifically listed belonged to either the states or the people. This was so important that they then said it again. (See amendments 9 & 10 from the Bill of Rights.) These issues are states issues. No matter how you feel about the issue, when the federal government weighs in on things that are out of its jurisdiction we all loose a little freedom. We have allowed it for far too long, and it's time for it to stop. The federal government is supposed to be small, not the bloated tick we currently have sucking the life from us as a nation. OK, I’m in the minority on this blog, but I’m not seeing the problems with either loosing Affirmative Action (which is legalized discrimination, IMO) or with keeping the conscience laws. Just because someone is licensed to do something doesn’t mean that they should be required to do something. I understand that you favor choice laws, but I don’t understand why you’d want to force someone to commit what is, in their opinion, murder. These health providers have to be able to live with themselves at night. I doubt that there is going to be any lack of doctors willing to perform abortions the way things currently are. But there may be a distinct lack of hospitals if Obama goes through with it: as I understand it, the Catholic church, owner/operator of all those St. Elizableth/St. Mary/ect hospitals says they will close their doors rather than provide those services. Is it really a good idea to force this particular issue? The religious hospitals are a huge part of our health care system! According to this Slate article, it’d be about 1/3 of the hospitals in the nation, many of them in, according to Slate, in “many neighborhoods that are not exactly otherwise overprovided for.” Do you really want to go there??

Is it really so bad for minors, who can’t have Tylenol at school without a permission slip, to talk such an important decision over with the folks? Is it really not enough that Planned Parenthood does abortion-on-demand already, now we want to make everyone do it, regardless of their own code of ethics? How is this freedom?

The federal government shouldn’t be messing around in either abortion or affirmative action anyway. When the Founders wrote the Constitution they gave the federal government a very short list of responsibilities. Then they said that every other power not specifically listed belonged to either the states or the people. This was so important that they then said it again. (See amendments 9 & 10 from the Bill of Rights.) These issues are states issues. No matter how you feel about the issue, when the federal government weighs in on things that are out of its jurisdiction we all loose a little freedom. We have allowed it for far too long, and it’s time for it to stop. The federal government is supposed to be small, not the bloated tick we currently have sucking the life from us as a nation.

]]> By: The Midwife http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/comment-page-1/#comment-235418 The Midwife Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:52 +0000 http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/#comment-235418 And here I was so proud of Nebraska for giving up one of its Electoral College votes to Obama (Maine and Nebraska are the only two states in the union that will actually split their electoral votes instead of winner take all). I had no idea Nebraska was your home state! It happens to be mine as well! Although I've been living in NYC for almost 10 years now, I was born and raised in Lincoln. I don't know how I missed the affirmative action vote, though. And yeah....*sigh*. And here I was so proud of Nebraska for giving up one of its Electoral College votes to Obama (Maine and Nebraska are the only two states in the union that will actually split their electoral votes instead of winner take all). I had no idea Nebraska was your home state! It happens to be mine as well! Although I’ve been living in NYC for almost 10 years now, I was born and raised in Lincoln. I don’t know how I missed the affirmative action vote, though. And yeah….*sigh*.

]]> By: lovingpecola http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/comment-page-1/#comment-235378 lovingpecola Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:35:54 +0000 http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/#comment-235378 Also Newsworthy: Nebraska got rid of affirmative action. One step forward for the country, 2 steps back for my home state. sigh. Also Newsworthy: Nebraska got rid of affirmative action. One step forward for the country, 2 steps back for my home state. sigh.

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