[Vision2020] Ellen Goodman, baby killer...

[Tony Simpson]

Bullshit, Hansen, the woman is NOT the person most affected by abortion.

It's the child stupid!  At least she gets to go on living, while the child 
molders in a trash can.

You should hang your head in shame for rationalizing the murder of the 
innocent.

Disgusted with the pro-death crowd, -T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 6:23 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Woman Had Right to Choose (Ellen Goodman)


> >From today's (September 22, 2006) Spokesman Review -
>
> Some people simply do not get it.  "Pro-Choice" is just that, pro-choice.
> It is not pro-abortion or anti-abortion.  Pro-choice allows the person 
> most
> affected to decide.  One thing we certainly do not need is the government
> making that decision for them.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Woman had right to choose
> Ellen Goodman
> September 22, 2006
>
> Sometimes you have to remember exactly what it means to be pro-choice.
> Sometimes the word "choice" is more than a focus-group label to avoid 
> saying
> the word "abortion." Sometimes the slick bumper sticker - Who Decides? -
> actually defines the argument.
>
> The reminder now comes from Maine, where a bizarre and sorry family
> narrative is still unfolding. Nicholas and Lola Kampf are accused of
> something that sounds linguistically impossible, not to mention criminal:
> kidnapping their daughter.
>
> According to the arrest warrant, the Kampfs grabbed pregnant 19-year-old
> Katelyn, allegedly tying her feet and hands, and carried her to the car 
> and
> headed south. The plan, said Katelyn, who escaped in New Hampshire and
> called the police on a cell phone, was to force her to have an abortion.
>
> The headlines - "Daughter Kidnapped to Force Abortion" - repeated this
> baldly across the news cycle. It was as if distraught parents could really
> deliver a captive wrapped in rope and duct tape to a doctor who would
> perform an abortion against the patient's will.
>
> The usual suspects chimed in. Cheryl Sullenger, spokesperson at Operation
> Rescue, said that forced abortions are "epidemic in scope." "I have seen
> sobbing women dragged into abortion clinics by the neck and hair," she
> added. She did not, of course, say "who" or "when" or "where," since drama
> is best unencumbered by facts.
>
> But the fact is that the Supreme Court protects Katelyn. The same 
> precedents
> that protect a woman's right to decide to have an abortion protect her 
> right
> to decide not to have an abortion. The state can't decide, husbands can't
> decide, and parents can't decide. Either way.
>
> Being pro-choice means looking through a long historical lens and
> understanding that a forced abortion is as much an assault on liberty as a
> forced pregnancy.
>
> Of course, there is another way that Katelyn Kampf becomes a pro-choice 
> case
> study. This teenager was 19, no longer a minor. Nevertheless, her family
> seems an unhappy example of a reality that many prefer to ignore: When 
> some
> pregnant teenagers say they can't tell their parents, they're right.
>
> In July, the Senate passed a bill that would make it a crime for anyone - 
> no
> grandparent, no aunt, no older sister, no clergy - to take a minor across
> state lines for an abortion in order to avoid laws that require parental
> notification. The White House praised the Child Custody Protection Act
> because it would "protect the rights of parents" and because parents are
> "best suited to provide her counsel, guidance and support."
>
> These days, parental involvement laws are the most popular hurdle put 
> before
> pregnant teenagers. They exist in about 35 states. Both Oregon and
> California have propositions on the fall ballot. And this week, the 
> Illinois
> Supreme Court cleared the way for another such law.
>
> Most pregnant teens can and do involve their parents. But we keep
> forgetting. What if those parents provide "counsel, guidance and support"
> with duct tape, rope and a .22-caliber rifle in the car trunk?
>
> Not long ago, a conservative from Concerned Women for America proclaimed,
> "It goes without saying parents should have direct and immediate say over
> their child seeking an abortion." What about when the parents seek the
> abortion? Direct and immediate say?
>
> At an arraignment in New Hampshire, the parents' lawyer called this a 
> family
> tragedy with "some unfortunate misunderstandings and some overreactions by
> all the parties." Talk about understating the "overreactions."
>
> The back story, as assembled by police and reporters, has all the elements
> of soap opera even in its bare bones. Katelyn, a high school honors 
> student
> who enrolled in Boston College, had been sent to George Washington
> University in an attempt by her parents to distance her from her 
> boyfriend.
> The debacle followed her parents' discovery that she was back in Maine and
> pregnant. Katelyn has told authorities that her parents were outraged
> because her boyfriend is black. Their attitude may have been more shaped 
> by
> the fact that he is in jail, again. But there is nothing that justifies 
> duct
> tape or the destination.
>
> "They told her she had no choice but to get an abortion," said the officer
> in the arrest warrant. But she did have a choice. In fact, she's a perfect
> recruit for the ranks of the pro-choice.
>
> In politics, there's much ado about finding common ground in the abortion
> debate. John Kerry, grooming this turf for the 2008 race, said this week
> that "the language both sides use on this subject can be, unfortunately,
> misleading and unconstructive."
>
> Maybe so. But this chilling family story gives added meaning to "choice." 
> In
> the end, a woman's right to decide is the common ground.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Vandalville, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
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