Pro-lifers stand for more than children

God bless you, Ms. Sikes!

I surprised the obvious truth needs to be stated. Well done Gail Sikes.

I stand by the July 1 letter I worte. The main goal of Mrs. Sikes and the fellow anti-choicers she supports is to control women's lives. And they can no longer deny it.

Thank you Gail Sikes for standing up and speaking the truth...

I find it so ironic that people who can't have kids and want to adopt cannot even adopt the kids in America due to red tape, but those who want an abortion have such an easy time to do it. We need to change this and NOW!

Willistontownsc that is a non sequitur. By what logic do you come up with that crap. These organizations have a right to exist just as PP. Their concern is not for women's lives but for the unborn. They could all be Buddhist and support the same cause. How can being an advocate for the unborn control womens lives. Women still can have legal abortions. Numerous people can influence a women's decision to have an abortion-information is a valuable tool in making decisions both pro and con.

Easy, Bizarro. When you advocate for a fetus, you are transferring all of the rights from the woman to the fetus, thereby essentially treating the woman as property. That you value a non-living object over a living object. We have seen thousands of women be slaughtered in Nicaragua, because doctors there cannot perform abortions for any reason, thanks to Mrs. Sikes and the American anti-choicers funding the Nicaraguan law.

Ellie Smeal talked about this in 2006, when voters rightfully rejected South Dakota's proposed law.

Hey man I'm proabortion but I have no problem with groups that advocate the contrary. This is America. The object is living by all biological criteria. Once egg and sperm fuse you biologically and evolutionarily have a new human. It may not come to term but still it is human. It may not be "person" with legal rights, but it is a human. That is what is so wonderful that this human may have a genetic mutation that will be the saving grace for a population sensitive to a catastrophic disease, or be so enlightened as to think of a revolutionarily new means to solve a problem plaguing humanity for centuries. Our children are our hope for the future-not us. We have basically had are say and stay, we need to nurture them to do better than we have. The elderly and children are easy targets for abuse.

Mother Teresa stated it so beautifully, "It is a poverty that a child should die so that you may live as you wish." I find it so ironic that a group of people, pro-choicers, live in fear that an unborn child will one day be given rights; that a living being with a heartbeat who has not yet breathed its first breath of air should be allowed to live without having to first prove its worth! willistontownsc, aren't you glad your mother was pro-life? I'm glad mine was.

First and foremost, my mother is not "pro-life". There are no women's health clinics within 50 nautical miles of Williston, since the Augusta Planned Parenthood does not take patients living in Barnwell County (the local PP only takes patients living in Aiken County on my side of the Savannah).

What we fear is not that feti will be given rights, because they will have rights once they are completely separated from the umbilical cord. What we fear is that women will have no rights whatsoever and that fetus-as-person laws will be used to justify the government controlling every aspect of women's lives.

That is why any and all anti-choice laws violate the 13th and 14th Amendments. Forced pregnancy is forcing women to become slaves to the government.

After WWII the govt in France paid women to have babies because so few were interested. Another fallacious argument to link pro-life with slavery. That is illogical. The 14th amendment is also a stretch as you could argue the same for a fetus for due process and equal protection. There are fetal homicide laws in a number of states apparently recognizing this as murder. Congress passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act 2004.The law defines "child in utero" as "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb. Legal challenges to these laws, arguing that they violate Roe v. Wade or other U.S. Supreme Court precedents, have been uniformly rejected by both the federal and the state courts, including the supreme courts of California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. So they still aren't recognized as person by the 14th, but they are human beings.

All of them are activist judges who upheld UVVA of 2004. We need to replace those judges with those who understand that the Constitution was made for all of us, not just 48% of the population. The Supreme Court's activist judges are: Alito, Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Kennedy.

The fact that most federal and state courts have upheld the law-even California-argues against that posit Williston.

I suppose each of you who advocate the slaughter of the innocents are happy for the most part your alive and your mom didn't deem it pleasing to have your brain sucked out....

Willistownsc where did you get information that a fetus is not a living creature? Certainly not from reality or fact. I am about to be blessed, and i did say BLESSED, with being a grandfather for the first time. Since the day my new grandson was conceived he has been living and growing within the womb - how could a non-living "object"grow into a bouncing healthy baby, a gift from God. Not possible. The time for "choice" is when that woman decides to have unprotected sex with a man - THAT is her CHOICE time. Deciding to murder an innocent baby is the most heinous crime ever perpetrated upon mankind and believe me God WILL deal with those abortionists and those who have killed their babies unless they receive His forgiveness. Whether or not YOU believe in God won't change the facts. Do you have aged loved ones who are a problem to you? Why not "abort" them? No need to allow them to hang around and be a bother. Are they any less "alive" because to you they are non-functional? I have two wonderful nephews because their mothers, who were unmarried, didn't abort them but allowed our family to be so blessed with having them. Murder is murder, adult or child.

Forced pregnancy? Unless there is a rape, no woman has a "forced" pregnancy. Your thinking and reasoning are complete illogical, whether you are in Williston or wherever. So your mother is not "pro-life": does that mean that you would not be her if she had had an opportunity for an abortion? I would love to hear how you as a constitutional authority would say that not allowing the murder of babies is a violation of the constitution of the United States of America. 13th: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. How can a woman who has chosen to have intercourse with a man either in slavery or involuntary servitude? 14th:. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. There's more but lack of space here won't allow - your absurd theories are blown out of the water. God help us if we EVER allow people like you to determine our course of action in this country.

The judges you named Willistownsc (did they changed the spelling of Williston recently?) are the judges that understand the meaning of the constitution as written for the most part. They don't have to stretch, rely on international law (nothing to do with us) or any weird suppositions to interpret, yes I said INTERPRET, the meaning of a law being challenged. Also I might remind you that court interpretations of law are not SUPPOSED to make that decision INTO law, yet the recent California decision regarding gay marriage did just that. Once an interpretation is given it can be challenged (asking for a reconsideration), it can be remanded to the original court or it can stand on its own as an interpretation of that particular case. In NO case is it as an interpretation to become law. Judges under our system are not in the law making business. That makes the overturn of Roe v Wade all the more possible with the appointment of some judges who have some sense of right and wrong and some common sense. The recent trend of trying to determine how a prospective judge would vote on specific cases goes totally against the process of our system.

willistonmoron. how do you call a beating heart an all four limbs NOT a living being ? You use the usual abortionist ploy of using fetus to try and dehumanize a growing baby. Ms Sikes is right about the mental agony women have after an abortion, as they KNOW it is WRONG, but listen to the likes of PP and the other murdering money makers who couldn't care less about the after affects on a woman. Sike's and her group do try and help these women over come their feelings of guilt. How much POST abortion counseling does PP provide?
BTW, please show me where in the Constitution anyone has a "right" to destroy a baby.

Can some one explain to me why aborting a baby is not murder, but if you murder a pregnant woman, you are charged with multipe murders?

It is legal mumbo jumbo. The distinction is a fetus is a human being, but is not a legal person. Say what!!!!!! I find it rationalization. Like for capital punishment or a "just" war. I accept the frailty of humans as murderous savages that will cut off heads and put them on a stake, torture people in just unimagineable ways, kill someone for little or no reason. And man is the king of Logic and Reason of all the animals. Some people treat their pets better than some their own offspring. Of all the animals we are freakin mutants whose actions bring about the most heinous and terrible consequences. But I am holding back so let me tell you how I really feel.

Hmmm..."deceived by Planned parenthood"..."abortion mills". Nice buzz words! Get that straight from Fox News did we?

OK, all of you "Right to Life" people (read: right to control other's lives) - line up! YOU get to adopt unwanted babies from orphanages! Oh, what don't want the responsibility? Well, you're so gung-ho about all the precious lives being saved, then step up and adopt an unwanted baby.

Oh, wait never mind. Abortion is the law in this land, so no need to worry yourselves. Go drive your SUV's back to the suburbs to your nice, safe lives. Stick your head back in the sand, that way the bad people won't get you.

Women have the control whether the fetus lives or dies. Nothing we can really do about it whether it is legal or illegal-they still make the choice. Making it illegal is not a solution nor should it being legal be an easy out for dumb [filtered word]es too lazy or sorry to use birth control to prevent conception. Dang in my day I was as promiscuous as one could get but no pregnancies. That could be luck or just I was smart enough to take precautions. There is no right to abortion no more than a right to murder someone. You can make murder illegal from now to eternity, but if I had hypothetically made up my mind to off someone I doubt any of you could stop me. First because you wouldn't know, and secondly if I was that crazy I would probably just as soon kill you too. hee,hee,hee.

Speaking of reproduction and seed. Scientist have taken a 2000 year old extinct date species from Israel and germinated and grew the plant. Dang I guess I'm not too old to reproduce after all. I started dessicatin my seed so 2000 years from now son of Bizarro will live again. hee,hee,hee. Well if the women doesn't choose to abort my little spawn. Devious. NO? Maybe he will become President.

Thank you Gail Sikes for writing the simple truth.

It is foreced pregnancy, CoastalDawg. Forcing a woman to carry her pregnancy to full term is rape.