Free speech and dead babies

[Lincoln]

Why would showing "tissue" be obscene?

[KrazyHorse]

I would consider it obscene to show, for instance, a graphic picture of a severed hand in a public place. I find myself physically revolted by graphic depictions of human tissue (which a fetus is, BTW) which has died.

[Lincoln]

I find the following operation that is performed on a healthy viable infant to be obscene. Should I be able to protest this?

[Guynemer]

Protest all you want Lincoln. Ignore the fact that said operation is almost never performed on a "healthy, viable" fetus, and if so is invariably done out of concern for the mother's health.

Anyway, back to the main question of thread, I'm pretty disgusted (though not in the least bit surprised) that this is even a debate. Yes, of course they should be allowed to protest. Christ on a bicycle, this is America! They should absolutely, without equivocation nor exception, be allowed to protest on public property.

It's bull**** like this that gives liberals a bad name, and I am fed up with it.

[Vesayen]

I HAVE A SOLUTION TO THE ABORTION ARGUMENT:

KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED YOU FREAKING SLUT AND THERE IS NO PROBLEM!




That is all .

Next I plan to go on to solve the worlds power needs, and end violence in the middle east.....

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by CyberGnu
Dr, ackording to the law I think I am a pedophile, cause I thought that Britney Spear was hot when she was 17...

(this is one of my pet peeves... I never understood how thinking 17 year olds can be hot equates with pedohilia...But that is a different story)

Strictly speaking pedophilia applies only to the pre- and peri- pubertal. Fourteen year olds are at the upper threshold.

[Akka]

Originally posted by Vesayen
I HAVE A SOLUTION TO THE ABORTION ARGUMENT:

KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED YOU FREAKING SLUT AND THERE IS NO PROBLEM!

I hope this was a joke ?

[Akka]

Originally posted by Lincoln
I find the following operation that is performed on a healthy viable infant to be obscene. Should I be able to protest this?

An operation like that should never happen, as it's applied on a baby that has already got a brain, a mind and an ability to feel (ie : a human person).

On the other hand, the way the text is formulated is also disgusting in its own way. It reminds me the propaganda of the 40's, with "the Jew" or "the Bolchevik". Here we have "the abortionist".
That can be clearly considered as "hate speech".

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Protest all you want Lincoln. Ignore the fact that said operation is almost never performed on a "healthy, viable" fetus, and if so is invariably done out of concern for the mother's health.

Anyway, back to the main question of thread, I'm pretty disgusted (though not in the least bit surprised) that this is even a debate. Yes, of course they should be allowed to protest. Christ on a bicycle, this is America! They should absolutely, without equivocation nor exception, be allowed to protest on public property.

It's bull**** like this that gives liberals a bad name, and I am fed up with it.

Do you have figures to back up your claim that this procedure is seldom performed to abort healthy babies? I think not. This type of operation would generally be performed in the last half of pregnancy, other methods are used to abort a baby before then. There are a number of reasons why it might be desireable to remove a fetus at that time. Pre-eclampsia, renal failure, maternal valvular heart disease, might all necessitate the termination of a pregnancy at that time. The procedures used to deliver a live baby at that time are just as safe for the mother as those used to perform an abortion.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Akka le Vil


On the other hand, the way the text is formulated is also disgusting in its own way. It reminds me the propaganda of the 40's, with "the Jew" or "the Bolchevik". Here we have "the abortionist".
That can be clearly considered as "hate speech".

Huh? The captions under the drawings seem to be simple unemotional description to me. I see no problem with calling an abortionist an abortionist.

[Zoid]

This all reminds me of "Citizen Ruth"

Other than that, of course they should be allowed to protest. America claims to be a democracy, right?

But I think it´s sad that people (ie religious right-wing nuts) have such a double standard. They question the womans right to her own body when more often than not they are rabid defenders of the individuals rights in other fields.

And even more scaring is the fact that these people more often than not defend the death penalty...

Pro-Life my ass

[blackice]

Kamrat X the question is does that dna glob have a right to life. Does it have the right to form it's own opinions given the chance to mature.

As far as the death penalty goes and eye for an eye and all that spunk.

As far as the rights of a womans body? I'll lose my figure so I will abort the child? Is this the arguement? I hope not.

As far as stereotyping goes heh sure a lot going on...