Abortion opponents are planning a large demonstration Oct. 7 that will line Route 110 from Walt Whitman Shops to Jericho Turnpike.
Ann Cook, presiding vice chair of the Long Island Coalitiion for Life and chair of Stand Up for Life, said the Huntington Station demonstration will be one of about 1,700 sponsored by the National Life Chain around the country and in Canada.
Last year's demonstration drew about 600 people, she said. This is the 15th year the group has demonstrated.
"We hope to bring awareness at how many babies are being aborted here in this country," she said. "And we try to change the hearts and minds of people."
Cook said the signs demonstrators will be carrying are those approved by the national organization and that 11 tables will be set up to distribute information.
"We are nonsectarian, nonpartisan groups," she said. "We try to get all faiths and political persuasions."
The demonstration will begin at 2:30 p.m.
Sorry, you know not of what you write.
Wouldn't it be that more humane to carry a baby to term and give it up to another family that will love it and care for it for life. I know it's a huge inconviemence but your conscience will rest that much easier for the rest of your life. Ask most women who have had abortions and how upset most of them are since their abortion.
Stop the propaganda. You most certainly can not speak for most women. All of the women I know who have had abortions only regret getting pregnant in the first place. Maybe you all should give out condoms at the anti-abortion rally. Or are you against contraception as well? Or is it sex for enjoyment that really disturbs the lot of you?
On your last silly question, who is "the lot of you"? Is that what you do is categorize people who do not agree with you?
If you mean your "truth," then yes it bothers me. 1. You can't possibly know what most women feel. That is a fact. 2. You don't decide when life begins. 3. Harassing women as the go in for an abortion is wrong. 4. You didn't answer my question: Will you be giving out condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies? 5. Or will you just be trying to force them to have children that they don't want?
There are those who favor abortion at any time, under any circumstances, at one extreme, and there are those who favor banning abortion, whatever the time and whatever the circumstance. Neither group represents the best interests of America, and the latter group, the so-called "right to life" organizations, are a plague on our society because most of them are opposed to the very thing that would prevent the need for abortions, namely, effective birth control. There are millions of Americans who stand in NEITHER extremist camp; these folks include committed Christians and Jews who believe in limited rights to abortion, with certain early time limits, and certain extreme situation exceptions. I am in this camp. I accept the fact that someone has different religious beliefs than I do, and they hold that "human life" begins at conception; most of us in the middle don't, but we also don't believe that a late pregnancy should be terminated unless it meets certain tests (e.g., substantial risk for the pregnant woman, or a pregnancy which resulted from rape, etc). You can argue what you like, but most of this is like trying to count the number of angels on the head of a pin. But, those hypocrites who refuse to assist women (and men, and teenage girls and boys) in being educated about contraception and getting access to it, are a major cause of abortions.
I went to get help from Birth-rite. All they did was try to talk me into giving my potential baby up for adoption. I asked for help, but unless I would give my baby up, the organization could not help me. All they said was "Don't have an abortion." I had my daughter, but I received no help from the anti-abortion group. So have a lot of experience behind my very accurate words. Furthermore, if I had an abortion, I would feel no guilt. Again, all of my friends who have had abortions feel bad about getting pregnant in the first place, not about aborting pregnancies that they did not want. And, I watched my mother nearly bleed to death from giving herself an abortion before it was legal. She was desperate and alone. No one helped her. They only condemned her act of desperation. No child should have to witness what I did. KEEP ABORTION SAFE AND LEGAL. DON"T TRY TO FORCE PEOPLE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT!! ABORTION SHOULD REMAIN LEGAL AND SAFE. If you don't believe in abortion, don't have one!
I don't see why you and Janet should claim that you don't feel guilty as you have not aborted babies. There is countless testimony from people who HAVE aborted their babies and now shoulder the endless guilt. Just because it's legal doesn't make it right or moral no matter what you believe. Slavery used to be legal too at one time. There are places today that will help you bring your baby to term. Also the pregnancy risks are a fraction of 1%. One of our jobs as human beings is to defend the weakest among us. I can't think of anything or anyone more defenseless than the unborn baby. Look at those abortion videos. The faces of those broken babies will make you cry.
I do, however, care about the fact that he is trying to impose his religious beliefs on the rest of us; he is no better than the Taliban or the Muslim extremists who seek to do the same thing. Jack, I don't criticize you for not wanting an abortion for your wife or your daughter, because your religion tells you that it is wrong, hence your own focus upon "guilt." Of course, their rights must come before your rights on matters like these. I do, however, criticize you for trying to deny to other Americans their right to act in accordance with their own religious beliefs, or in the case of those without religious beliefs, their own sense of ethics. Guilt is related to a violation of one's beliefs; millions of other Americans, Jack, have religious beliefs that are different than your own. Those women do not feel your "guilt." They may feel regret at having to make a lousy decision, or they may feel confusion over conflicting needs, or they may feel that they are doing the right thing under the circumstances pertaining to THEM. And as for your considering a fetus - what you like to call an "unborn baby" - as "the weakest among us", Jack, I consider the weakest among us those hundreds of millions of children, or existing humans, brought into this world by parents who either won't, or can't, take proper care of them. Those are the ones who need serious protection, Jack.
And Ron, one can stage a counter protest to keep abortion safe and legal. It looks as though one might be needed.
You want to force women and girls to DIE. YOU want to make that choice for them. YOU need to mind your own uterus. Oh, wait, you don't have one. So YOU need to MYOB! Re: adopting out...you are aware that, on average, there are roughly 100,000 babies and children wasting away in the adoption/foster care system, right? What's wrong with them? Why is no one adopting them? Aren't they "prefect" enough? Yet you want to force women and girls to unload their babies into an already dysfunctional system? The *choice*, regardless of what it is, MUST be up to the woman or girl. Let's educate our girls (abstinence is best!) and make sure they *get* the full ramifications of what can happen if they still get pregnant. THEY are the ones who must live with the consequences. Not YOU.
Very well said. I completely agree with your posts. Thank you.
And Janet B is correct. What about the children languishing in foster care right now? There are so many unwanted children, and no one to care for them. It is so sad.
These babys do feel pain and have been observed to recoil away from a foreign object that is inserted into the womb toward them. Can you imagine the pain you would feel if your arms and legs were torn off your body and what it must feel like to then bleed to death? Your 2nd "nice try" is bringing up young children that are not properly cared for. While this is a critical issue, it has nothing to do with abortion unless your thoughts are that abortions solve that problem. I hope that is not what you mean. Many children as you may know that have grown up in the most difficult childhoods still go on to become successful adults.
The structures necessary for pain transmission to the brain are not developed enough to transmit these signals until at least the 20th week of gestation, or so. Since virtually 99% of abortions occur *before* the 20th week (90% are before the 12th week), pain is a non-issue for the majority of abortions. For the remaining 1%, these are *wanted* pregnancies that are in *crisis*, whereby either the mother or fetus is dying, or both. They do try to be as humane as possible, but time is not always on their side. Please get your facts straight. Thank you.
Your misinformation is a moving target. Looke at your stats again and you should realize they do not make sense. Pain can be felt by the unborn baby in the late stages of the first trimester and throughout the balance of the pregnancy. The are about as many abortion in the 2nd term as the first term and we are not even speaking about the horror of the laterm abortion where the baby is rigid in pain during this killing. That is where the term "silent scream" came from. You have stated you have no guilt about this atrocity. Very sad to say the least.
Furthermore, I see you completely ignored my FACT that post-viability (past 21 weeks or so) abortions are ONLY performed on WANTED PREGNANCIES when the fetus or mother is dying. The old videos you drool over are OLD. They no longer perform those procedures EXCEPT when the mother/fetus is dying. They try to SAVE the pregnancy and are left with no choice. So, it seems you want the woman to die. Speaks volumes about you, really. You really need to educate yourself. Furthermore, since you are supposedly a "man", one needs to wonder what the heck you are doing harassing strange women about their pregnancies. That's disgusting. Mind your own business. I never stated anything about having "no guilt". I'm starting to think you are an elderly man with too much time on his hands. Use it to EDUCATE yourself, dear.
Jack is way too preoccupied with women's bodies. His "science" is propaganda not fact. Most abortions are performed in the first trimester with many women opting for a post coitus pill. No little girl or boy should have to witness his or her desperate mother nearly bleed to death from a self inflicted abortion. My mother performed this procedure on herself, and I had to watch as the blood pooled around her feet. She had no support and this was when abortion was ILLEGAL. She struggled to feed the children she had. She knew another would doom her and us to a lifetime of poverty. And PEOPLE LIKE JACK would be no where to be found. Jack, have you ever offered to support a pregnant woman and her child not related to you? Not that that would give you a right to tell her what to do, but I am curious. Are you just shooting your big, uneducated, mouth off???
KEEP ABORTION SAFE AND LEGAL!!!