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Originally posted by SureFire
taken from this thread: http://gofuckyourself.com/showthread...hreadid=262863
As a women, I believe it is my right to terminate a pregnancy in the first tri-mister.
If a guy rapes me, I really want a choice. I don?t expect my husband or me to raise a child from a vicious act if I can prevent it.
Point of conception ?or a choice that maybe hard. Any opinions?
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Unfortunately you are potentially a victim of the New Right and the machinations of the Catholic Church to gain political influence in the US. It is not a coincidence that the most intensive state suppression of abortion in modern times occurred in Nazi Germany.
In the early 70's, Richard Viguerie and the other right-wing Catholic ideologues picked abortion as the one political issue that could bridge the traditional antagonism between Protestant fundamentalists and Catholic conservatives. Linking together alarms about terrorism, drugs, AIDS, aliens, black youth, lack of patriotism and rock music in a "seamless garment" (a concept further popularized by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin in the 80's) with abortion, they soon had "good old boys" from the South rubbing shoulders with the very Catholics they used to bait, in a new joint crusade for God and country.
In 1975, Roy White, then executive director of the National Right to Life Committee asserted that "The only reason we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic Church." With funding from the Catholic church, NCHLA organizers rapidly created well-organized right-to-life PACs in almost half of the country's congressional districts. And developed from there.
However sincerely held are the beliefs of those involved, abortion was and remains just one issue in a much wider campaign to break down the separation of church and state, to enforce support by taxpayers of the Catholic school system, and to achieve the election of (obedient to the Vatican) Catholics to Congress and state legislatures. Although the Moral Majority and other fundamentalist groups are perceived by much of the public as the moving force behind the anti-abortion lobby, their numbers and influence remain relatively very small.
It is unfortunate that those who do oppose abortion can only do so by helping to further this agenda. Sadder still that most are not aware how they are being manipulated. And although George Bush is not himself Catholic, ever since he took such a large percentage of the observant Catholic vote at the last election, he has been actively campaigning to increase his appeal among them. And it is working: attendees of the inaugural meeting of the National Catholic Register were told to "encourage team leaders to introduce Mass-attending Catholics to the Republican Party."