Let's reward criminals by paying for their optional medical procedures...
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The US Supreme Court late Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge's ruling that ordered Missouri prison officials to drive the woman to a clinic on Saturday for an abortion.
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Temporarily? How about we follow listen to the people and follow their damn laws?
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Missouri state law forbids spending tax dollars to facilitate an abortion. However, U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple ruled Thursday that the prison system was blocking the woman from exercising her right to an abortion and ordered that the woman be taken to the clinic Saturday
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Right. I have a right to vote, but I lose it when I commit a felony. This woman lost the right to suck out a fetus with a tube when she broke the law.
THE LAW FORBIDS SPENDING PUBLIC FUNDS ON AN ABORTION. End of story. It doesn't matter how badly this late wants to be rid of her unborn child, it matters that the public decided they don't want to be forced to pay for it.
Guess who is paying for her legal fees?
The ACLU
They wonder why people don't like them. With all the censorship in this country, they decide that the priority is usurping the voice of the people in Missouri. With all the people who desperately need competent legal counsel in this country, the ACLU decides criminals hell-bent on abortion are the most worthy.
Do they realize the door this opens up? If the court decides that criminality doesn't restrict individuals from certain rights, then where does that leave felons? Actually, I know that answer. It leaves them right where the Democratic Party wants them: In the voter booth, checking Democrat.
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— go to most recent comments1 - The Cranky Liberal
So whose going to pay for the kid? Where is it going to be raised? Are you willing to take it in? Just wondering since your so concerned about the cost of gas to drive to the clinic and all.
2 - ryan
I have no problem with my tax money going to help the child.
Thats part of why we pay taxes, to help the less fortunate. I don't pay taxes though, to fund abortions.
3 - The Fifth Dentist
[edited] We wouldn't have had to read this shit.
4 - Bob Brady
God Bless Clarence Thomas for stopping the killing of an unborn child in MO. His actions send a message (though not covered in my local paper) that unborn life is valuable and laws should be followed.
5 - ryan
Clever.
6 - Matthew T. Sussman
Abortions: $500
Raising a child: Much, much more than that.
7 - ryan
So?
It would also be cheaper if we gave every criminal the death penalty.
Or if we just nuked countries instead of going to war.
On some moral issues, frugality is not a virtue.
8 - elliot
You are so stupid about jail. Think it's all flower petals. The criminal was likely pregnant from guards. No woman wants a rape baby. If she didn't kill the rapist, she can at least kill his fetus. Rape babies ain't worth nothing.
9 - Matthew T. Sussman
I think if faced with the dilemma of having to pay for your own abortion, compared to the cost of raising a child, you'd be able to find $500 in a couple months.
Or, having the baby and putting it up for adoption would cost you nothing.
10 - T A Dodger
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Actually, Fifth Dentist, I think she is offering to pay for the procedure. The prison is refusing to pay for her transportation to the hospital.
11 - ryan
read the story elliot. she was pregnant before prison
12 - T A Dodger
I don't know what word in Fifth Dentist's comment #3(which I quoted) was considered offensive. To paraphrase, the deleted portion said: too bad she couldn't pay for this herself
She is paying for it herself.
To quote the news story ryan links to:
The woman, whose name was not disclosed in court papers, has said she will borrow money for the abortion from friends and family but cannot afford to pay for transportation.
13 - T A Dodger
having the baby and putting it up for adoption would cost you nothing.
Prenatal care costs money. Driving her to the hospital to give birth will cost money. Caring for the child until it can be placed would cost money.
14 - Jeff
If you're that worried about this woman's fetus, why don't you contact the prison, ask Mom and Dad to lend you the family minivan, and go set-up a meeting with this horrible woman to arrange an adoption after the state forces her to carry it to term?
Since we're on the topic of life and death, I wonder how offended you are by a war based on lies, oil, and religious bigotry being run by a chickenhawk who went AWOL and his VP who knocked-up his wife to avoid service?
How outraged are you about your tax dollars being used to kill-off 10,000+ innocent Iraqi women and children then? I hear some of those Arab kids were actually outside of the womb when they died.
Then again, they were Arabs.
Are you as vocal about the plight of the under-funded VA and the 45,000 maimed Iraq veterans? How about those 2,000 dead ones and their families? They were fetuses once, too, you know. Just ask Pat Tilman's mother.
Big questions for a self-proclaimed genius who just graduated high school to answer, I know, but you graduated with honors just last year, so I am sure you're up for the challenge.
One last bit of advice from someone who has actually lived in the world that exists beyond high school, Ann Coulter, and sitcoms (yes, I read your bio): if you don't want an abortion, don't have one.
15 - nate jr.
you're right! the iraq war is a forced abortion to hundreds of pregnant women who are shot by american soldiers and un-smart bombs.
nobody's freaking out about fetuses' rights during war.
16 - imelda
well, I don't that many 18-year-olds who actually pay taxes - so what do you care?
And, of course, the more important point is: should people like this prison inmate be encouraged to propagate at all? Wouldn't this particular abortion be a positive thing for the gene pool?
17 - female
errrm if you were pregnant and decided that you didnt want the baby... id have an abortion as if you have the baby and put it for adoption, you'd always be thinking i wonder what happend to my baby, where it is and what its doing and you'd be guilty and alwaays wondering.
18 - Carl Rove
This is not a choice between abortion and birth. This is a choice between a safe, regulated abortion in a hospital and an unsafe, coathanger abortion in a prison bathroom. Abortions happen, so regulate it.
19 - Luke
If you didn't pay for the abortion, you'd be paying welfare for her kid that'll become a future criminal, I'd rather nip this problem in the bud, abort future criminals, it'll cost less in the long run.
20 - Luke
Aborting babies of criminal mothers is simply a good investment.
21 - T A Dodger
This has been resolved. The supreme court lifted the temporary stay. The appellate court's ruling stands, and the woman should now be able to get an abortion. Link Here
22 - T A Dodger
Sorry, apparently the lower court that issued the order was a Federal District Court, not a federal Appellate Court.
23 - Nancy
I don't understand the point of view that insists there be no abortions, then rails at the masses in poverty & bitches about having to pay welfare, etc. to feed their bastard spawn. This bastard spawn is the selfsame fetus pro-lifers were all mooney-eyed over before it was born; once it's born, it can beg, starve, die in the streets, or take up a life of crime for all they care. Sick hypocrisy. All those who insist every life is "sacred" should be racing to adopt every unwanted non-aborted baby, in that case; but I never see or hear of them doing it, which simply exposes their TRUE agenda: power: forcing their religous or sexual ideologies on everyone else.
24 - Cunning linguist
OF course you don't understand nancy because [edited] liberal who doesn't believe in personal responsibility. If I am pro life that doesn't make me responsible for every baby that's ever born. It just means I believe a baby has the right to be born.
As for welfare we bitch about it because it is a useless system. It creates dependence not independence. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to help a child but I do have a problem with it going to help a lazy adult who doesn't work.
25 - Nancy
So do I. And I resent even more having to pay for other people's spawn. Therefore I favor abortion on demand. I'd rather kill it while it's a blob than spend hundreds of thousands of hard-earned tax monies feeding it, trying to educate it (without success), only to have it grow up & breed useless pieces of shit just like itself in turn.